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Organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), the “Tap Siac Craft Market” will be held from 16to 18 November and from 23 to 25 November, at Tap Siac Square, featuring thirty-eight handicrafts workshops. The fee for each handicrafts workshop is MOP50. All interested parties can register for the workshops through the “Activity Registration System” on IC’s website. Deadline for registration is 8 November, at 5pm.
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Dr Louis Cha, the late honorary doctor of letters of the University of Macau (UM), who was also a renowned Wuxia novelist better known by his pen name Jin Yong, passed away in Hong Kong at the age of 94. UM would like to offer the deepest condolences on the passing of Dr Cha and has sent a condolence letter to his family.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service indicated that a total of 15,062 wholesale & retail establishments, market stalls and fixed stalls on the street were operating in 2017, an increase of 596 year-on-year. Number of persons engaged rose by 2.7% to 69,684, with employees accounting for 83.5% of the total. Receipts of Wholesale & Retail Trade amounted to MOP 122.07 billion in 2017, up by 10.7% year-on-year. Expenditure grew by 8.6% to MOP 108.93 billion, of which Operating Expenses, Compensation of Employees and Purchase of Goods & Commission Paid recorded respective increases of 10.2%, 9.7% and 8.1%. Gross Surplus totalled MOP 11.75 billion, up by 24.0% year-on-year. Gross Value Added that measures the sectoral contribution to the economy went up by 16.8% to MOP 22.17 billion. Meanwhile, Gross Fixed Capital Formation fell by 24.5% year-on-year to MOP 1.94 billion, owing to a decrease in major refurbishments of retail establishments.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitors on package tours decreased by 8.9% year-on-year to 687,000 in September 2018 due to the impact of the typhoon, and registered a drop of 12.1% month-to-month. Package tour visitors from Mainland China (526,000) went down by 16.6% year-on-year, while those from the Republic of Korea (52,000) and Taiwan (60,000) surged by 58.8% and 64.0% respectively. In the first three quarters of 2018, visitors on package tours totalled 6,495,000, up by 8.2% year-on-year.
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The Macao Consumer Council and Zhuhai Association for Consumers' Rights and Interests Protection co-tested boxed tissue and sanitary napkins earlier, all samples from Macao meet the requirements of the testing standard, consumers can visit websites of both consumer organizations to check the result.
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To provide public with more ways to obtain the emergency information of Macao, Cartography and Cadastre Bureau, under the support of Unitary Police Service and Meteorological and Geophysics Bureau, has launched the “GeoGuide for emergency” mobile map App, which allows public to obtain important information such as the areas may be affected during different “Storm Surge” warning levels, the location of each Emergency Refuge Centre and the Emergency Hotline of Macao via mobile phone.
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Possible warning signals to be issued due to the impact on “Yutu”
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Possible warning signals to be issued due to the impact on “Yutu”
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