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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