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The Sixth Macau Symposium on Biomedical Sciences, organised by the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), opened at UM today (12 June). The two-day event attracted over 400 people, including experts, scientists and researchers in the field as well as teachers and students from UM and local secondary schools. With this year’s theme being ‘innovation’, the symposium focused on cutting-edge research and innovative technologies in biomedical sciences. The Nobel laureate Aaron Ciechanover, who is also a recipient of an honorary doctorate from UM, was one of the keynote speakers.
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The Sixth Macau Symposium on Biomedical Sciences, organised by the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), opened at UM today (12 June). The two-day event attracted over 400 people, including experts, scientists and researchers in the field as well as teachers and students from UM and local secondary schools. With this year’s theme being ‘innovation’, the symposium focused on cutting-edge research and innovative technologies in biomedical sciences. The Nobel laureate Aaron Ciechanover, who is also a recipient of an honorary doctorate from UM, was one of the keynote speakers.
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This year, students from the Tourism Retail and Marketing Management programme at the Institute for Tourism Studies have successfully completed a consultancy project for Altira Hotel (Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited).
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A dispatch by the Secretary for Economy and Finance was published in Series II of the Official Gazette no. 24 on 12 June 2019, advising the revision of Section 1 Objective of the Regulations of Consumer Arbitration Centre that consumer dispute no greater than MOP100,000 value is accepted by the Arbitration Centre, this is a further step to safeguard consumer rights.
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The 23^rd EU-Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) Joint Committee meeting was held in Brussels on 11 June 2019, in accordance with Article 16 of the EC-Macao Trade and Cooperation Agreement of 15 December 1992. This was the seventeenth annual meeting since the handover in 1999.
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The Social Security Fund (abbreviated to FSS in Macao) today (June 12) announced the name list for the special allocation from budget surplus 2019 for the Non-Mandatory Central Provident Fund System. This year, a total of 371,078 people are included in the list and 155,433 people are not included. To make enquiries, members of the public can visit the website of the FSS atwww.fss.gov.mo, call our 24-hour interactive voice response hotline at 2823 0230, use the self-service machine, or visit a service point of the FSS.
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According to statistics released today by the Monetary Authority of Macao, new approvals of residential mortgage loans (RMLs) decreased while those of commercial real estate loans (CRELs) increased in April 2019. With regard to the outstanding balances, both RMLs and CRELs witnessed monthly increases.
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The University of Macau (UM) English Debating Team recently won the championship of the 22^nd ‘FLTRP Cup’ National English Debating Competition. This year’s event attracted nearly 100,000 debaters from 500 universities in China. This is the third time that UM has won the championship of the contest. The team previously won two championships, in 2009 and 2017, respectively.
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Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) delivers the report of the “Analytical Study on Optimization of Nighttime Tourism Activities and Products”. The study report proposes short-term measures to optimize current nighttime tourism activities and products, as well as suggestions on development of new nighttime tourism activities and products in the future. Suggestions offered in the study report will serve as significant reference for optimization and development of nighttime tourism activities and products in Macao.
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