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UM wins 13 golds, breaks 6 records at local inter-varsity swimming competition
The University of Macau (UM) Swimming Team recently won 13 gold medals, 12 silver medals, and 10 bronze medals at a local inter-varsity swimming championship. Team members Chao Man Hou and Lei On Kei each broke two records in individual events. The team also broke two records in relay events. The competition attracted students from UM, Macao Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Saint Joseph.
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Consumer Council released latest ‘Supermarket price survey’ Surveyed spots included supermarkets in N. Sra. de Fátima Parish
Consumer Council conducted its third ‘Supermarket price survey’ on 6 February for the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June. Surveyed locations included 13 supermarkets in Toi San, Ilha Verde and Fai Chi Kei areas in N. Sra. de Fátima Parish.
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CCAC releases “Investigation report on the construction project at Alto de Coloane”
The Commission Against Corruption has released the “Investigation report on the construction project at Alto de Coloane”, which pointed out many doubts existing in the process of the inheritance of the title of the land parcel where the construction project was located at. One cannot rule out the possibility that some people made use of judicial proceedings and falsely claimed to be the parcel owner’s descendants and obtained the title illegally. There were obviously mistakes and even frauds made and committed in the process of the land boundary survey and the issuance of the cadastral map. The parcel with a description number 6150 was actually located near Largo do Presidente António Ramalho Eanes in the old Coloane Village instead of being at Alto de Coloane, while the actual area of the parcel was, at the most, only a few hundred square metres instead of 53,866 m2. The parcel where the Alto de Coloane project is located is a State property and the Macao SAR Government should recover the relevant land parcel following appropriate procedure and method.
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Photography Contest of International Museum Day of Macao, 2018
To celebrate the 2018 International Museum Day, Communications Museum and Maritime Museum organize a photography contest to encourage photo enthusiasts to use their creativity to record the “Taipa Houses x Taipa Story”.
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Asian Journal of Criminology edited by Prof Liu Jianhong included in SSCI
The Asian Journal of Criminology (AJOC), edited by Prof Liu Jianhong from the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau (UM), has been included in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). Published by Springer,the AJOC is the first criminology journal in Asia to have been included in the SSCI.
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Cultural Affairs Bureau publishes the album Reflection of Macao – Documentary Photographs by Chan Hin Io
The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym) has launched renowned Macao photographer Chan Hin Io’s album Reflection of Macao - Documentary Photographs by Chan Hin Io. This album is the third volume of the “Photo Series by Chan Hin Io”, featuring works by the author created before 2009. Taking the old neighbourhoods of Macao as background, the photographer captured the simple folkways, traditional customs, conventional industries, residents and old stores, thereby collecting fragments of a fading culture and reconstructing them, in order to show the readers the simplicity and profound culture of Macao.
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Credit card statistics – 4th quarter 2017
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 fourth quarter of 2017. Both the credit card turnover and total repayments registered double-digit year-on-year growth.
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