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Tickets for the 33^rd Macao International Music Festival (MIMF), organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, are currently available and early bird discounts are offered until this Sunday (August 11). Many programmes have been highly sought-after by the public since the first day of sales; as tickets are limited, the public are advised to purchase tickets as soon as possible to enjoy this grand musical feast with the theme of “The Instrumentalist”.
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“Reunion”Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art, one of the events organized under the programme "Art Macao", will be held at the Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT), from 8 August to 13 September. This exhibition presents works of six artists, they have long lived and engaged in artistic creation under the background of different cultures and now yield visual experiences different from their previous works.
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A paper co-written by Xin Yanyu, a PhD student in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau (UM), and her supervisor, Assistant Professor Cai Tianji, has been published in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, one of the top journals in criminology and penology. Titled ‘Paying Money for Freedom: Effects of Monetary Compensation on Sentencing for Criminal Traffic Offenses’, the paper explores new possibilities and directions for sentencing studies.
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The Committee for the Development of Conventions and Exhibitions previously held its second plenary ordinary meeting for this year in the Multi-function Conference Hall on the 19^th Floor of China Civil Plaza. During the meeting, the Committee discussed topics relating to co-operation in the meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (MICE) sector between Macao and other cities within the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Greater Bay Area). Such discussion covered the joint organisation of events under the “One Fair, Two Venues” concept; and the collaborative bidding for the right to host international MICE events. Committee members were also briefed on the work carried out during the first half of 2019 relating to IPIM’s “One-stop Service” for MICE Bidding and Support in Macao.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the overall residential property price index for April - June 2019 held steady compared to the previous period (March - May 2019), at 268.4; the index for the Macao Peninsula (271.1) edged up by 0.1% while that for Taipa & Coloane (257.0) dropped by 0.2%.
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The Consumer Council conducted its ‘Supermarket price survey’ of the first-half of August on 7 August for the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June. Surveyed locations included 14 supermarkets in Nossa Senhora de Fátima Parish. Consumers may now check the report data on the Council’s website (www.consumer.gov.mo), the “Supermarket Price Information Platform” app, or the Council’s WeChat account.
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In order to provide diversified and advanced training opportunities for industry professionals and enhance management capabilities of the local service industry, Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) and EHL Advisory Services of EHL group (which includes Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, the world’s first hospitality management school in Switzerland), are offering the Executive Development Programme in Macao on and 7 April. The programme attracted 21 professionals of hotels and mega resorts.
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A delegation from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), led by the President, Shi Youqi, visited Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) on 19^th July. With the warmest welcome from MPI’s President, Im Sio Kei, the two institutions signed a cooperation agreement to strengthen bilateral cooperation in fields such as culture, education and artificial intelligence, to intensify higher education in the Greater Bay Area and to develop the institutions internationally.
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The University of Macau (UM) State Key Lab in the Internet of Things for Smart City recently signed a collaboration agreement with Haylion Technologies Co Limited, becoming the first institute in Hong Kong and Macao to collaborate with a leading mainland company in smart driving technology. By signing the agreement, both parties hope to combine their strengths in big data applications for smart city development, smart transport, and unmanned buses, as well as to strengthen exchange and collaboration between researchers from both sides, in order to jointly promote innovation, develop patented technologies, and commercialise research results, with the aim of enhancing the global competiveness of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in the field of science and technology.
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The Department of Portuguese of the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Arts and Humanities recently held a closing ceremony for the 33^rd Portuguese Language Summer Course. This year’s intensive course attracted nearly 500 students of different cultural backgrounds from more than 13 countries and regions. With the help of Portuguese language instructors, the students completed the three-week intensive course in which they practised communicating with each other only in Portuguese. Participants say that UM provides a very good environment and a fun atmosphere for students to learn Portuguese, adding that they have made significant improvement in writing and speaking.
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