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To praise the students for their excellence in both conduct and academic performance, the Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) awarded scholarships to more than 500 outstanding students at the opening ceremony of the academic year 2018/2019 which was held on 29^th of this month. Awarding scholarships affirms and recognises the students' efforts in the past academic year, to encourage them to strive for excellence in their studies, and to encourage other students to work hard to pursue academic progress and moral cultivation, as well as continuously upgrade their own value, to make contributions to Macao, the Greater Bay Area and the country.
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The opening ceremony of the 2018/2019 academic year of the Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) was held in the afternoon of August 29 at the MPI Sports Pavilion, with more than 900 new students joining MPI. The solemnity of playing the national anthem took place during the opening ceremony. Two thousand participants including community leaders, representatives of scholarship donors, representatives from overseas universities, MPI teachers and students, alumni, and parents paid attention to the national flag raising, and all participants sang the national anthem to express their respect and pride to the motherland.
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The 32^nd Macao International Music Festival (MIMF), organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, will kick off on 28 September. The Organiser is launching a prized game on its website, offering participants a chance to win fabulous prizes.
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With an objective to promote and increase the awareness and understanding of “Chapas Sínicas”, the second phase of the exhibition will take place in the Archives of Macao from 21 August to 7 December; and an extended exhibition will be staged in the University Gallery at the University of Macau from 5 September to 31 October. Jointly organized by the Archives of Macao and the National Archive of Torre do Tombo and co-organized by the University of Macau Library, the extended exhibition will showcase some of the pieces from the first phase of the exhibition.
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Prof Chen Fangze, associate professor from the Centre for Japanese Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau (UM), recently received the Development Contribution Award from the International Association of Chinese-Japanese Contrastive Linguistics (IACJCL) at the Tenth Symposium on Chinese-Japanese Contrastive Linguistics held at Suzhou University, for his outstanding contributions to research on Chinese-Japanese contrastive linguistics and the development of the association.
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The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) released results of the Survey on Manpower Needs and Wages for the second quarter of 2018. Survey coverage comprises Wholesale & Retail Trade; Transport, Storage & Communications; Security Activities and Public Sewage & Refuse Disposal Activities; however, own-account workers are excluded.
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To fully deliver the function of its mechanism in pushing forward Macao’s transformation into a world centre of tourism and leisure, the Joint Working Committee on Tourism to Support the Development of Macao into a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure (referred to as the “Joint Working Committee”) convened the 2018 Annual Work Meeting in Beijing today (28 August). Leaders and officials representing about ten entities concerned, including the Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China and the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region, discussed a range of topics and exchanged views on pertinent tasks during the meeting.
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The University of Macau (UM) State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City recently held a seminar on smart grid technologies for smart cities. This is the first event organised by the lab since UM received approval from the central government to establish the lab. The event received assistance from Companhia de Electricidade de Macau (CEM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) of Macau, and the IEEE Macau Power and Energy Society/Power Electronics Society Joint Chapter. Experts and scholars from Macao, mainland China, and overseas attended the seminar and discussed the latest developments of technologies in sustainable energy, energy internet, electricity market, and smart grid equipment dispatch.
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The Suncity Group 65^th Macau Grand Prix will be held from November 15^th to 18^th 2018.
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