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In order to simplify the procedures for local and foreign filmmakers to apply for filming in Macao, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), in collaboration with a number of public services, officially launched the “Coordination Service for Filming Permit Application” (hereinafter referred to as the “Coordination Service”) today. IC shall serve as the responsible public service for receiving all filming applications submitted by the filmmakers and, subsequently, refer the applications to the participating public services in the network for follow-up.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitors on package tours rose by 27.8% year-on-year to 912,000 in December 2017, but edged down by 0.4% month-to-month. Package tour visitors from Mainland China (746,000), the Republic of Korea (45,000) and Taiwan (52,000) surged by 32.1%, 23.8% and 34.8% respectively year-on-year. For the whole year of 2017, visitors on package tours totalled 8,633,000, up by 14.3% year-on-year.
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The Government pledges Macao has sufficient seasonal influenza vaccine for its residents, adding that an extra 40,000 doses is expected to arrive in batches over the following two days.
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The Macao Orchestra (OM, from the Portuguese acronym), under the auspices of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, presents the concert “Great Symphonic Poems” on Friday, 2 February, at 8pm, at St. Dominic’s Church. Under the baton of OM’s Principal Conductor, Lu Jia, the Orchestra presents the work My Fatherland, a cycle of six symphonic poems by 19^th century composer Bedrich Smetana. Admission is free.
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The University of Macau’s (UM) Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) has signed an articulation agreement on a ‘3+2’ programme with the University of Lisbon (Instituto Superior Técnico, IST), a leading higher education institution in Portugal. According to the agreement, UM will select outstanding third-year students from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for direct admission to IST to study a two-year master’s degree programme.
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Please be informed that starting from 9:00a.m. on 31^st January, (Wednesday) 2018, the new label stamps “Lunar Year of the Dog” will be available for sale at the designated automatic stamp vending machines as below:
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To celebrate the Chinese New Year with residents, the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office of the Ministry of Culture of China of the PRC and the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government, with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the PRC and the Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture of the MSAR Government, as well as the cooperation of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Culture, jointly present the dance drama Opera Warriors, in the “Happy Chinese New Year” series, at the Macao Cultural Centre Grand Auditorium on 3 March, at 8pm. Tickets will be on sale from Thursday (1 February) at the Macau Ticketing Network.
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To help young engineers and supervisors increase their professional knowledge about power systems and prepare them for future challenges and opportunities, Companhia de Electricidade de Macau (CEM) has partnered up with the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) and Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) to organise a 12-session CEM Electric Power Engineering Training Course. This is the fourth time since 2010 that the two institutions have co-organised the course. Taught by experts and professors of electrical engineering from Macao, Hong Kong and mainland China, the course has graduated more than 80 young engineers and supervisors from CEM over the years.
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