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A conference sizing about 1,000 participants has been held in Macao recently. During the event, the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) together with industrial and commercial associations of various districts organised tours for more than 1,000 participating merchants to the local community. Certain merchants expressed satisfaction with the arrangement, which allowed them to experience Macao as a safe travel destination. Store owners and travel agencies reported that the MICE event participants can bring business opportunities, and that they feel confident about the future prospects as Macao’s economy gradually recovers from the pandemic.
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The Government Information Bureau pays great attention to the opinions carried in the 2020 Annual Report of the Commission Against Corruption concerning procurement of services. The Government Information Bureau will follow up on the issues raised, in a proactive manner.
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Health quarantine requirements and measures for inbound travellers of different identities.
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The Macao Grand Prix Museum will officially open starting from June. For residents’ and visitors’ convenience to schedule visits in advance, the Museum now optimizes its ticketing arrangements on the official website. Starting from 9 a.m. tomorrow (21 May), admission tickets can be purchased online 30 days in advance and up to one day before the visit.
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The application deadline for the “Academic Research Grant” of the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) is 31 May 2021. All interested academics are welcome to apply.
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The 2020 Annual Report of the Commission Against Corruption of Macao was published in the Official Gazette of the Macao Special Administrative Region today (20 May). In 2020, under the pandemic, the CCAC still carried out the actions in the areas of anti-corruption, ombudsman and promotion and education in a pragmatic and orderly way in accordance with its plan.
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The “Macao Week in Jiangsu” roadshow was held splendidly along the Pedestrian Street at Confucius Temple in Nanjing for four days in a row from 14 – 17 May, in tandem with the offline and online promotions to raise Macao’s profile as a healthy, safe and quality destination and attract Mainland visitors to Macao. The event attracted over 250,000 spectators on site and engaged over 72 million viewers cumulatively online. The hashtag “#Macao Week in Jiangsu#” has received over 28 million pageviews on Weibo.
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The Tourism Development Committee (CDT, on its Portuguese acronym) convened the first Plenary Meeting of 2021 today (18 May), presided over by Secretary for Economy and Finance of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government and Committee Chairperson, Lei Wai Nong. Various CDT members raised opinions and suggestions on Macao’s tourism development as well as tourism and economic recovery.
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The Chief Executive, Mr Ho Iat Seng, today met with the United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator in China, Mr Siddharth Chatterjee, to exchange views on multilateral cooperation, UN’s sustainable development goals and the nurturing of talented individuals in the fields of science and technology.
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The five-day event “Macao Week in Jiangsu” concluded on 17 May. The Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) organised MICE delegates and Macao enterprises to join the event. IPIM held the “Jiangsu-Macao Tourism and MICE Promotion Session”, in which around 120 representatives of tourism and MICE sectors from Jiangsu and Macao took part. The “Nanjing-Macao Business Matching Session” was also held, wherein more than 90 enterprisers met and talked to each other, up by 5% compared to the “Hangzhou-Macao Business Matching Session” during the “Macao Week in Hangzhou”. Some of the participating entrepreneurs said that the efficacy of joining the event reached their expectation. IPIM believes that the event enabled Jiangsu companies to get a sense of the Macao’s economic vitality, enhancing the co-operation and market expansion between both places.
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