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Improvements made on supermarket price survey work Consumer Council collects prices from the same supermarket twice a month
The Consumer Council continues to improve its supermarket price survey work, after reviewing on its work in recent years, price changes cycle and frequency, as well as listening to consumers’ suggestions, the Council started to collect price data from the same supermarket twice a month, this will further increase the timeliness of the survey report.
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Language Big Data Alliance (LBDA) Summit 2019 Held at MPI
The Language Big Data Alliance (LBDA) kicked off its annual conference in the morning of April 2, 2019 at Macao Polytechnic Institute, featuring the theme of "Future, Infinite". Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) is a founding institution and council member of LBDA and was the host of this year's annual conference. The conference was attended by experts and scholars of diverse fields from around the world. Officiating guests included: Ip Peng Kin, Office Chief from GSASC of the Macao SAR Government; Gou Renmin, Deputy Director of the Department of Education and Youth Affairs of the Liaison Office; Huang Youyi, Hannelore Lee-Janke and Wei-He Zhong, Co-Presidents of LBDA; Im Sio Kei Marcus, President of MPI and Teng Sio Hong, Acting Deputy Director of the Macao SAR Government's Higher Education Bureau, among many others.
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Workshop on the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT)
In the latest evaluation of the Macao SAR by the Committee against Torture of the implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT), a training need was identified for the personnel in the Security branches. In this regard, the Committee recommended that the Macao SAR should consider the provision of specialized training in the CAT area, bearing in mind the “Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment”, better known as the Istanbul Protocol.
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Monetary and financial statistics – February 2019
According to statistics released today by the Monetary Authority of Macao, broad money supply retreated in February with a stable share of patacas. Meanwhile, resident deposits dropped from a month earlier while loans to residents remained broadly stable.
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Reply to media enquiry about two violation cases of aviation security
All airports, including Macau International Airport, strictly require passengers to go into the restricted area with their valid passport and the boarding pass. The cases of two passengers entering into the airport restricted area without authorization and eventually stopped by the police and the airport staff a few days ago are indeed violations of the airport security requirements. We regret that such cases have happened in our airport.
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