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University of Macau (UM) Rector Yonghua Song has been elected member of Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe). Members of Academia Europaea are the most outstanding or influential individuals in the fields of the humanities and natural sciences in Europe. Most of them are academicians of science from Europe or scientists with a long collaborative relationship with Europe. Many are Nobel laureates, Fields Medal winners, and Turing Award winners.
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The seventh module of the Global Leadership Development Programme (GLDP), jointly organised by the University of Macau’s (UM) Asia-Pacific Academy of Economics and Management ( APAEM) and Rikkyo University in Japan, was successfully held in Tokyo recently. The programme attracted more than 50 senior executives from Macao, Japan, and Europe.
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The Macao SAR Government has been attaching great importance to the cultivation of young talents and the growth of innovation-driven business start-up, for which, constant endeavour has been put to launching optimised measures that help young entrepreneurs achieve their dreams. On 9 July, Executive Director of the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) Mr. Sam Lei led a delegation composed of 17 members – representatives of the Macao Young Entrepreneur Incubation Centre, the Macau Youth Entrepreneur Association and the E-Commerce Association of Macau – to join the RISE 2019 in Hong Kong, which provided an occasion for Macao young enterprisers and RISE participants at home and abroad to exchange insights and look for co-operation opportunities in terms of innovation-driven businesses.
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The opening ceremony and events of 2019 Pan-Pearl River Delta University STUDENT Projects Final Competition, jointly organized by Macao Polytechnic Institute and Macao Computer Society, were held at the Macao Polytechnic Institute on 3rd and 4th July 2019. The competition was the largest information technology competition in the Pan-Pearl River Delta Region this year. More than 30,000 university students in a total of 60 elite teams from Guangdong, Yunnan, Hainan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Jiangsu, Hubei, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan competed to be the champions. All the teams were eager to demonstrate their talents and creativity to the panel, the guests and the public, as well as share and exchange ideas with each other. Eventually, ten universities including the University of Hong Kong, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Guangdong Ocean University, and Taiwan National Yunlin University of Science and Technology won the first prizes in the final competition.
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The Consumer Council conducted its ‘Supermarket price survey’ of the first-half of July on 11 July for the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June. Surveyed locations included 10 supermarkets in Santo António Parish. Consumers may now check the report data on the Council’s website (www.consumer.gov.mo), the “Supermarket Price Information Platform” app, or the Council’s WeChat account.
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Organised by the Macao Museum of Art (MAM) under the Cultural Affairs Bureau, the exhibition Lyric Poetry – Works of Artists in Macao and Portugal from the MAM Collection, will be open to public from 13 July, at the Special Exhibitions Gallery, 3^rd floor of the Macao Museum of Art. The exhibition showcases over 90 outstanding works from the MAM collection, from oils, acrylics, and watercolour paintings, to mixed-media paintings, sculptures and installations that fully reflect the creative outcomes of contemporary artists, as well as rich Chinese and Portuguese cultural connotations. The exhibition is open to the general public.
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The selection of Macao film projects for the 2019 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Film Production Investment and Trade Fair (hereinafter referred to as “the Fair”), co-organized by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Macao (IC), the Film Administration of Guangdong Province and Create Hong Kong, was completed recently. Five applications were selected and the selected applicants will be invited to attend the Fair.
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