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Secretary Leong confident of Macao’s long-term economic growth
The Secretary for Economy and Finance, Mr Leong Vai Tac, today expressed his confidence in Macao’s long-term economic development, based upon the growth in real terms registered during 2018 in the city’s economy, during a period of volatility in global economic conditions.
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Change of programme of the Macao Orchestra 2018-19 Season Closing Concert
The “2018-19 Season Closing Concert – Kyung Wha Chung and the Macao Orchestra”, originally scheduled to be held on Saturday, 27 July, at 8pm at the Macao Cultural Centre Grand Auditorium, will be cancelled due to health reasons of violinist Kyung Wha Chung. Spectators with tickets can request the respective refund at the Macau Ticketing Network outlets from today to 27 July by presenting the intact tickets.
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Package tours and hotel occupancy rate for January 2019
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitors on package tours fell by 4.6% year-on-year to 766,000 owing to a decrease of 8.4% in the number of Mainland visitors (591,000); however, package tour visitors from the Republic of Korea (66,000), Hong Kong (16,000) and Taiwan (56,000) increased by 31.7%, 17.5% and 14.2% respectively.
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UM PhD student receives Young Artist Grant under China National Arts Fund
Yang Chao, a PhD student from the Centre for Arts and Design, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau (UM), received the Young Artist Grant under the China National Arts Fund 2019, in recognition of his creative research project.
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External merchandise trade statistics for January 2019
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that total merchandise export for January 2019 amounted to MOP1.53 billion, up by 24.6% year-on-year. Value of re-exports (MOP1.39 billion) increased by 28.3%, with that of Beauty, cosmetic & skin-care products and Diamond & diamond jewellery surging by 274.5% and 175.0%. However, value of domestic exports (MOP140 million) dropped by 3.4%, with that of Tobacco falling by 24.1%. Total merchandise import rose by 7.2% year-on-year to MOP8.97 billion, of which imports of Motor cars & motorcycles and Garments & footwear expanded by 72.2% and 57.5% respectively, but that of Construction materials and Mobile phones fell by 45.5% and 32.8% respectively. Merchandise trade deficit in January amounted to MOP7.44 billion.
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UM-CAT helps enhance translation efficiency
The University of Macau (UM) today (28 February) held a ceremony for the signing of a collaborative framework agreement with the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS-IA), and a joint academic workshop. UM-CAT, the latest machine translation system developed by UM researchers, was presented following the agreement signing ceremony. Using state-of-the-art technologies, this translation system can effectively assist professional translators and their team members in the translation, proofreading and management of translation projects that involve three languages, namely Chinese, English, and Portuguese, thereby enhancing translation efficiency. This system represents a major breakthrough achieved by UM researchers in integrating artificial intelligence technology in the development of machine translation systems. It attracted much interest and attention from conference participants, including professional translators.
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