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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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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that licensed motor vehicles totalled 238,003 as at end-June 2019, down slightly by 0.1% year-on-year; light motorcycles (24,645) dropped by 9.3% while light automobiles (107,981) and heavy motorcycles (97,907) increased by 0.8% and 1.8% respectively. New registration of motor vehicles in June decreased by 21.2% year-on-year to 827, with heavy motorcycles (433) and light automobiles (359) falling by 15.6% and 25.1% respectively. In the first half year of 2019, new registration of motor vehicles fell by 23.8% year-on-year to 5,714. Number of traffic accidents declined by 24.0% year-on-year to 979 in June, and number of injuries totalled 316. In the first half year, there were 6,170 traffic accidents; number of victims totalled 2,115 and 5 of them were killed.
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According to statistics released today by the Monetary Authority of Macao, the total number of personal credit cards issued by banks in Macao continued to rise in the second quarter of 2019. Both the credit card turnover and total repayments also registered growth from a year earlier.
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Tickets for the 33^rd Macao International Music Festival (MIMF), organized by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, went on sale on 4 August (Sunday). Enthusiastic members of the public waited at different ticketing outlets to purchase tickets. Sales reached a satisfactory result as more than 3,700 tickets were sold up to 5pm on the first day of ticket sales. The percentage of the ticket sales was more than 50 %.
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The Government has submitted a letter to the Legislative Assembly requesting it to remove from its agenda the discussion of two Government-proposed bills. The two bills are: amendments to the Budget for the Fiscal Year of 2019 and amendments to the Law on Combating Computer Crime.
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