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“hush! Beach Concerts x Urban Sports Wellfest 2026” to be held in November at Hac Sa Beach Open call for local bands, musicians and outreach activities planners to give continuity to the annual cultural and sports beach event
Jointly organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) and MGM, the “hush! Beach Concerts x Urban Sports Wellfest 2026” will be held from 14 to 15 November at Hac Sa Beach, Macao. Making a breakthrough from the traditional practices with innovation, the event combines music, urban sports and wellness elements in a natural beach setting, offering residents and tourists a different experience and a brand-new cultural and sports event. IC is now calling the participation of local bands, musicians, workshop instructors, curators in themed music development project, and curators of art installations for “hush! Beach Concerts 2026,” aiming to support creative work and promote the development of Macao's pop music culture.
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UM scholar publishes correspondence in Nature to address apprenticeship in AI era
Tony Zhang Huiquan, associate professor in the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Macau (UM), and his collaborator have published a correspondence in the leading international academic journal Nature. Drawing on their experience of using agentic artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as OpenClaw, the authors highlight a pressing challenge facing the scientific community: while AI has dramatically increased research productivity, it is also undermining a core component of education—apprenticeship.
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CCAC detects a case involving an education institution that defrauded subsidies under Continuing Education Development Plan
The CCAC received a report from the Commission of Audit suspecting that there were untrue records regarding the subsidised courses held by a local education institution. Following an investigation, the CCAC considered that there were strong indications that the person-in-charge of the education institution and 13 Macao residents defrauded subsidies under the “Continuing Education Development Plan”.
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Leveraging Macao’s Strengths as China-PSC Platform: IIICF Deepens Key Infrastructure Co-operation between China and PSCs
The 17th IIICF to Be Held in Macao from 10 to 12 June
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36th Macao Arts Festival presents the newly adapted Cantonese opera Lotus Heart Tickets are available through the Cotai Ticketing
Organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym), the 36th Macao Arts Festival (MAF) will present the newly adapted Cantonese opera Lotus Heart on 6 June. Tickets for the performance are already on sale through the Enjoy Macao Ticketing. Residents and tourists can also purchase tickets through the Cotai Ticketing from 12pm on 4 June (Thursday).
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Members of Administration Committee on Municipal Affairs of IAM sworn in
To deepen the public administrative reform, the restructured functional framework of the Municipal Affairs Bureau (IAM) has been smoothly completed. The law on “Alteração à Lei n.º 9/2018 — Criação do Instituto para os Assuntos Municipais” (“Amendment of Law no.9/2018 ‘Establishment of Municipal Affairs Bureau’”) officially entered into force on 1 June. The inauguration ceremony of the newly appointed members of the Administration Committee on Municipal Affairs took place in the Grand Hall of IAM Building. The swearing-in of the four members of the Administration Committee on Municipal Affairs was administered by Wong Sio Chak, Secretary for Administration and Justice, and witnessed by Chang Cheong, Chief of the Office of the Secretary for Administration and Justice.
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Monetary and financial statistics – April 2026
According to statistics released today (3 June) by the Monetary Authority of Macao, broad money supply continued to retreat in April 2026. Meanwhile, both resident deposits and loans* decreased from a month earlier.
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