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Package tours and hotel occupancy rate for October 2017
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that benefited from the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays, visitors on package tours rose by 16.3% year-on-year to 799,000 in October 2017, with a month-to-month increase of 6.0%. Package tour visitors from Mainland China (647,000), the Republic of Korea (40,000) and Taiwan (43,000) went up by 17.0%, 29.2% and 11.8% respectively year-on-year. In the first ten months of 2017, visitors on package tours totalled 6,804,000, up by 11.5% year-on-year.
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Macao Polytechnic Institute Motivates Students for Exams!
For the purpose of cheering up students for exams and motivating students to prepare for exams with a positive attitude, the Student Affairs Office and Student Union of Macao Polytechnic Institute have distributed free drinks to students, and also set up a “Message Board”, where students can leave their wishes and blessings. Moreover, the Student Affairs Office has arranged a mascot doll to interact and take instant photos with students, and distributed a special “Lucky Photo Frame” to students which is especially made for this activity, wishing students can get good marks in exams.
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International conference on Macao’s legal reforms in global context to open at UM next Monday
The Tenth International Conference on the Legal Reforms of Macau in the Global Context – Gaming Law, organised by the Centre for Law Studies of the University of Macau’s (UM) Faculty of Law, will be held on Monday 4 December and Tuesday 5 December at UM. All are welcome.
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UM’s English Debating Team wins 8th straight championship at inter-varsity debate contest
The University of Macau (UM) English Debating Team recently won its eighth straight championship in the English category of the Macao Inter-varsity Debate Competition, setting a new record for consecutive wins in this contest. Members of the team also swept six individual awards, including the Best Debater Award in the final and five Best Debater Awards in the preliminaries.
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UM develops fast, accurate parasite detection method
A research team from the University of Macau (UM) has achieved a new breakthrough. The team has developed a fast, accurate, and convenient point-of-care pathogen detection method with the help of the digital microfluidic system. This method uses isothermal DNA amplification together with specific DNA Molecular Beacon probe on a digital microfluidic chip to detect life-threatening parasite infection. In addition to obtaining fast results in 40 minutes, this method can also lower the reaction volume to one-tenth (1-μL) of the volume required with conventional methods. Discrimination of non-specific amplification and lower risks of aerosol contamination also mean that this system has the potential for clinical applications. The study has been published in Scientific Reports, a journal under the Nature Publishing Group.
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Consumer Council conducts price survey on selling prices of fresh pork and vegetables from Zhuhai and Macao
For the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June, Consumer Council collects prices of fresh pork from wet markets and supermarkets on 28 November for consumers’ reference. The mentioned data collected during 22 November to 28 November are used for comparing the average selling price of the same products from Zhuhai. The relevant data has been uploaded to the Council’s website for consumers’ reference.
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