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Organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China, the Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao S.A.R. Government and the Home Affairs Bureau of the Hong Kong S.A.R. Government, in cooperation with the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao S.A.R. Government, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Hong Kong S.A.R. Government, the Gansu Provincial Department of Culture and the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture, and presented by the China Arts and Entertainment Group and the China International Exhibition Agency, the “2018 Hong Kong-Macao Visual Art Biennale” was presented in Beijing and Dunhuang. From 30 October to 11 November, the exhibition has its final stop in the Zhejiang Art Museum in Hangzhou. Representatives of the Cultural Affairs Bureau attended the opening ceremony.
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The Identification Services Bureau (DSI) cooperates with the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) to extend the coverage of contact information modification service, which allows citizens to update their address and contact information at various government departments at one time.
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Consumer Council conducted its first ‘Supermarket price survey’ on 7 November for the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June. Surveyed locations included supermarkets near Areia Preta, Mong Há and Avenida de Venceslau de Morais in N. Sra. de Fátima Parish.
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The “27^th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival” is held from 7 to 10 November in Foshan, Guangdong. The film Love is Cold, directed by Macao young director Fei Ho, was screened at the “Hong Kong and Macao Film Showcase” session, presenting Macao’s current film culture and development, and was well-received by the audience.
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In order to encourage original academic research on the culture of Macao and the exchanges between Macao, Mainland China and other countries, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) has set up the Academic Research Grant programme. After an evaluation process, five research projects from local and overseas scholars received the 2018 Academic Research Grant.
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2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2018) was held in Miyazaki, Japan this October. The news from the conference is that C. L. Philip Chen, the chair professor of Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, wins the 2018 Norbert Wiener Award for his outstanding contributions in the areas of machine learning, pattern understanding, and image classification.
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