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Organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, the evaluation of entries for the “3^rd Macao Printmaking Triennial” has been completed recently at Macao Contemporary Art Center - Navy Yard No.1. This edition of the triennial received an enthusiastic response. After a meticulous evaluation by the adjudicating panel, a total of 175 winning and finalist works were selected out of 1,097 entries.
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The 18^th Macao City Fringe Festival, organized by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym), features a series of outreach activities, including workshops, talks, art critique and sharing sessions, bringing the audience a rich programme of activities and diverse artistic experiences.
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Organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, the 18^th Macao City Fringe Festival, themed “Extra．Ordinary”, will be held from 11 to 27 January 2019, featuring a total of 18 extraordinary programmes and 10 outreach activities including workshops, talks, art critique and sharing sessions, among others, leading the audience to break through the restrictions and framework to rediscover the exceptional in everyday life.
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The Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) held this morning the opening ceremony for the3^rd Annual Conference of the International Place Branding Association, a global association of experts composed of scholars and practitioners of place branding, city marketing, nation branding, and place management. This year’s IPBA Conference is being hosted by the Destination Branding and Marketing Group, an international conference series founded by IFT in 2005 and which has now gained wide traction and following since its establishment. The Conference – running until tomorrow (7 December) – aims to discuss the latest developments, issues, and challenges in place branding and related areas.
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A group of students from the Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology (FST), University of Macau (UM), recently swept the top three prizes for the longest airtime in both the group category and the individual category, at the university level, at the Fourth Greater China Students Paper Plane Contest cum the Eighth Macau Paper Airplane Contest. During the event, UM students competed with more 300 students from over 30 higher education institutions and high schools in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. This is the fifth consecutive year that UM students have won championships at this contest.
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The heliport carried out the full scale emergency exercise this early morning (06 December) to test the capacity of the personnel in handling emergencies and train them with the required skills. The exercise simulated the scenario of a tail rotor drive failure after the helicopter has taken off, the accident of which resulted in a forced heavy landing on the mainpad. All responsible parties activated their contingency plans to resolve the crisis.

In this exercise scenario, a helicopter which was carrying two flight crew and three passengers took off from the Macau Outer Harbour Heliport and encountered a tail rotor drive failure. The accident resulted in a forced heavy landing on the mainpad and some parts of the aircraft were detached and scattered on the ground. One passenger suffered from serious injuries while the other two only met minor injuries. The two flight crew did not get hurt. After the accident, the heliport immediately activated the emergency response procedures: putting the fire-fighting system in the standby mode, the fire engines and the ambulances arriving immediately at the ferry terminal, delivering the injured to the hospital, evacuating all personnel and so on.

The exercise began at 07:00 this early morning with the participation of 100 people. The process lasted for about one and a half hour and was deemed smooth.
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Consumer Council conducted its second ‘Supermarket price survey’ on 5 December for the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June. Surveyed locations included supermarkets near Iao Hon Market and the Border Gate area (Portas do Cerco ) in N. Sra. de Fátima Parish.
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