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29th Macao Arts Festival opens on Friday
The 29th Macao Arts Festival (MAF), organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, kicks off this Friday, 27 April, with an opening ceremony to be held at 7:40pm in the lobby of the Macao Cultural Centre, open to the general public. This edition of the MAF presents 26 extraordinary shows and exhibitions as well as an outreach programme, in a total of over 100 activities, leading the audience to recall the core meaning of life by means of different artistic manifestations.
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Visitor arrivals for March 2018
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 2,733,311 in March 2018, up by 9.3% year-on-year but down by 11.0% month-to-month. Overnight visitors (1,451,263) and same-day visitors (1,282,048) grew by 8.6% and 10.1% respectively year-on-year. The average length of stay of visitors held steady year-on-year at 1.2 days, with that of same-day visitors staying at 0.2 day while that of overnight visitors rising by 0.1 day to 2.2 days.
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UM kicks off smart campus project
The University of Macau today (22 April) held the Opening Ceremony for the UM Open Day and Smart Campus. In the future, UM will use various advanced technologies, including cloud computing, virtulisation, and internet of things, to connect the university’s teaching, research, management, security, and dining systems to campus resources and application systems, in order to realise smart management. UM Rector Yonghua Song hopes that the innovative people trained through the smart campus project will eventually become leaders in the creation of a smart city in Macao.
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Government responds to U.S. human rights report on Macao
In response to media enquiries regarding the content relating to Macao carried in the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2017, recently issued by the Department of State of the United States of America, the Office of the Government Spokesperson has stated on 21 April the following:
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Beijing visit for principal officials to strengthen knowledge of national development
All principal officials of the Government, along with the Public Prosecutor-General are attending, from 21 to 25 April, training sessions in Beijing regarding national development, followed by a visit to Jiangsu Province.
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Macao’s progress outlined to ‘Mayors’ Visiting Program’ delegation
A delegation under the “Mayors’ Visiting Program” had the chance today to gain a better understanding of the latest developments in Macao relating to economic and trade matters, cultural policies and promotion of tourism.
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CE: ‘Mayors’ Visiting Program’ creates reciprocal benefits for international cooperation
The Chief Executive, Mr Chui Sai On, said the “Mayors’ Visiting Program” was conducive to closer international cooperation among those involved, with more reciprocal benefits jointly contributing to the sustainable development of the global economy.
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