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Consumer Council conducted its specific price survey on diapers, over-the-counter drugs, and milk powder on 13 May for the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June. Result of the mentioned survey has been uploaded to the Council’s website (www.consumer.gov.mo) and is available in the Council’s ‘Supermarket Price Information Platform’ iPhone and Android apps, and on the Council’s WeChat account page. For inquiry, please call the Council’s hotline: 8988 9315.
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The Cinematheque．Passion, under the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), hosts a talk entitled “The Wizard of Sound Effects in Films”, conducted by Phyllis Cheng Wing-Yuen, a veteran of acoustic design and sound mixing from Hong Kong, to be held on 28 May, Saturday, at 4pm. Online applications are now accepted. Admission is free. The talk will cover the topics of sound effect in films, sound creativity and work flow of sound production as well as case studies. Phyllis Cheng has a rich experience in post-production of acoustic design and sound mixing. She has participated in sound production of the movies Full Strike, Angel Whispers, To The Fore, Insanity, As The Light Goes Out, The Four II, Out of Inferno, Little Cheung and Durian Durian, etc. In 2012, she was honoured the Best ADR Recordist at the Golden Reel Awards. There are sixty seats available. All interested parties are welcome to enrol through IC’s Activity Registration System (www.icm.gov.mo/eform/event). For enquiries regarding the talks or the Cinematheque, please contact Mr. Leong, staff member of IC, through tel. no. (853) 2892 4040 during office hours. For details, please visit the Cultural Affairs Bureau website (www.icm.gov.mo) or the Macao Cultural and Creative Industries Website (www.macaucci.com).
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In order to expand the career perspectives of IFT students and motivate them towards entrepreneurship and innovation, IFT has invited a wide range of entrepreneurs to share their experiences with all of its bachelor degree programme students during the entrepreneurship course. The Institute for Tourism Studies have integrated entrepreneurship course in its entire bachelor degree programmes, namely Culinary Arts Management, Heritage Management, Hotel Management, Tourism Business Management, Tourism Event Management and Tourism Retail and Marketing Management. This fits the agenda set by Macao SAR Government to stimulate the diversification of Macao’s local economy as well as stimulate innovation via entrepreneurship. The course leader Dr. Fernando Lourenço developed this course and organised hands-on projects co-worked with local companies and invited entrepreneurs to share their experiences during the course. The Institute would like to thank the following companies as guest speakers, namely 2 Legit Barbershop, Animals Club, Carino, Courseday Macau, Green Market, GREENS Kitchen & Juicery, Grow uP eSports, Hey Design, JC Makeup Workshop, Le Bistro Marcellinho, Lemon Lemon Café, LinaLenço Dessert, Love Avenue No.9 Ltd., Macao Economic Services of Macao SAR Government, Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute, MCMedia Asia, Midnight Predatory, Mugs, Passion Beer, Portuguese Bakery, Quarter Square, Red Con, Royal Lemon, The Black Sheep, The Darling Buds of May, Virtualmente, Yummy Macau and心弦 – Felice. Established in 1995, the Institute for Tourism Studies, Macao (IFT) offers the most extensive selection of tourism and hospitality related bachelor degree programmes in Macao, and about twenty thousand participants attend its vocational and professional training courses annually. IFT collaborates with 97 universities and tourism organisations around the world, and builds strong links with 500 leading tourism and hospitality corporations to offer internship opportunities to its students. Being the first institution accredited by the UNWTO.TedQual Certification System for tourism education, IFT has now 7 bachelor degree programmes with the Certification. Currently, the Institute has the most number of bachelor degree programmes certified under the System of any tertiary education establishment worldwide. IFT has received the Medal of Merit in Tourism from the Macao SAR Government, and won twice the Gold Award in ‘Education and Training’ from the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA).
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To facilitate the public and philatelists for ordering new philatelic products, please note the followings: (please fidn the attached file)
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The Third Macao Symposium on Biomedical Sciences, organised by the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) of the University of Macau (UM), will be held from 23 May to 24 May at UM. This year’s symposium will focus on cancer biology, stem cell technology, genome editing techniques, and several other topics in biomedical sciences. Prof Mario Capecchi, a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and a recipient of an honorary doctorate from UM, will be one of the keynote speakers at the symposium. Approximately 200 experts and scholars in the field of biomedical sciences will attend the symposium to have an in-depth discussion on the latest breakthroughs and future trends in the field. The event aims to provide a platform for participants to exchange ideas and explore opportunities for research collaboration. During the event, Prof Capecchi will give a Doctor honoris causa Lecture, titled ‘Gene Targeting Into the 21st Century: Mouse Models of Human Diseases from Cancer to Neuropsychiatric Disorders’. The symposium will start on Monday 23 May at 3:00pm in the Banquet Hall, UM Guest House. It will be conducted in English. For more information please visit http://msbs2016.fhs.umac.mo/. For enquiries, please call Ms Cornelia Ho or Ms Miffy Chan at 8822 4228/ 8822 4998, or email to fhs@umac.mo.
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Macao Post will participate the “World Stamp Show - NY 2016”, located in New York, United States, during 28th May to 4th June, 2016. To commemorate this Exhibition, Macao Post issues the commemorative envelopes and provides the commemorative postmark cancellation service on site of the exhibition. For the convenience of the philatelist, the commemorative envelope with stamp priced at MOP5.00 will also be available for sale at the Philatelic Shop of Macao Post Headquarters starting from 28th May. You may send your mail of this cancelled commemorative envelope at the following locations *: Philatelic Shop at Macao Post Headquarters: 28th May, 9:00 – 18:00 Post Offices: 28th May to 4th Jun, Office Hours to Public * No commemorative postmark cancellation service will be provided in Macao.
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10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EXHIBITION OF COMMUNICATIONS MUSEUM -THE VOICE, THE EXHIBITION THAT SPEAKS TO YOU Do we really know the theory behind our voice? As its name suggests, the exhibition allows visitors to explore the wonders of human voice from different angles as it is human’s richest and most primitive musical instrument. Voice is the vector of language and it lets us express our emotions. It also allows nations to develop special vocal techniques through speech, recitation and singing, creating a rich and 3-dimensional world with different kinds of drama and singing. “The Voice” special exhibition will be shown from May 17 to November 16. We cordially invite you to join us in the journey to discover the physics, acoustics and cognitive science behind the voice. During this half-year exhibition, Communications Museum will provide guiding service for visiting schools and organizations. This exhibition is suitable for visitors aged 8 and above. Visitors are both the creators and the subjects of experiments in the exhibition. You can explore, test and alter your own voice. You can also record your voice and compare it with others, and discover the mechanisms involved in speech and singing. The exhibition is divided into 3 parts, with various interactive and fun exhibits: • Body and Voice: Chorus of Four Larynxes, Voice Transformation, Transforming Voices, Sonagrame, Vocal Apparatus Puzzle, Phonetogram, Exploring the Vocal Tract. • Expression and Voice: Voice of the World, Voice and Identity, Recognizing Emotions in Speech. • Art and Voice: Sing with a Virtual Choir, Singing Voice Synthesis and Transformation, Quiz of Well-known Voices
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that there were 42 institutions offering vocational training courses in 2015, an increase of 11 institutions year-on-year. A total of 1,508 courses were provided, up by 9% year-on-year. Total number of participants rose by 6% year-on-year to 55,841. Participants attending courses in Computing and Health increased by 1,519 and 858 respectively year-on-year, while those in Tourism, gaming & events and Hotels & catering decreased by 612 and 594 respectively. The course completion rate was 87%, down by 1 percentage point year-on-year. Analysed by course type, 34% of the participants (19,058) attended courses in Business & Administration, 13% (7,135) in Language and another 13% (7,018) in Computing. Among the 1,508 vocational training courses, 608 were organized by 15 training institutions on behalf of enterprises or institutions. Number of participants decreased by 6% year-on-year to 24,281, with 45% (11,008) attending courses in Business & Administration, 19% (4,569) in Language and 10% (2,358) in Health. Survey on Vocational Training covers institutions that offered vocational training courses. Information on course types and participants are collected with the aim to understand the provision of and resident participation in vocational training in Macao.
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The Monetary Authority of Macao announced today that the preliminary estimate of Macao SAR’s foreign exchange reserves amounted to MOP151.8 billion (USD19.00 billion) at the end of April 2016. The reserves decreased by 0.4% from the revised value of MOP152.4 billion (USD19.08 billion) for the previous month. Macao SAR’s foreign exchange reserves at end-April 2016 represented 12 times the currency in circulation or 106.9% of Pataca M2 at end-March 2016. The trade-weighted effective exchange rate index for the pataca dropped 1.04 points month-to-month but rose 0.04 points year-on-year to 104.89 in April 2016, implying that overall speaking, the pataca depreciated against the currencies of Macao’s major trading partners on a monthly basis but appreciated on an annual basis.
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Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO), Zhongshan Municipal Tourism Bureau and Zhuhai Culture Sports and Tourism Bureau jointly held tourism presentation seminars at Nanning and Guilin in Guangxi Province on 11 and 12 May respectively to promote travel to Zhongshan, Zhuhai and Macao. The three destinations have been making constant efforts to expand their visitor source markets along high-speed rail routes to brand themselves as one regional destination – “Fragrant Hill in the past; Zhongshan, Zhuhai and Macao today” and enhance regional cooperation in tourism. During their mission in Nanning and Guilin, both along the high-speed rail route, Deputy Director of Zhongshan Municipal Tourism Bureau, Dong Zuwen, Deputy Director of Zhuhai Culture Sports and Tourism Bureau, Min Yuntong, and Head of Advertising and Production Division of MGTO, Grace Chen, presented the three destinations’ tourism resources and products together with their travel trade delegates including 15 representatives from Macao’s travel agencies, hotels, ferry operators and so on. The delegation also seized the chance to exchange ideas and discuss business opportunities with travel trade in the two cities, to promote travel to Zhongshan, Zhuhai and Macao in one trip. Capitalizing on the convenience of travel brought by high-speed rail, the three tourism offices have been regularly rolling out joint promotion projects to attract visitors from adjacent regions and cities along High-speed rail routes to the three destinations in one trip to widen the diversity of visitor source markets in concerted effort. The three offices also reached a consensus during the 2015 conclusion meeting of regional cooperation in tourism between Zhongshan, Zhuhai and Macao and the 2016 work meeting in Zhuhai this February, that they will keep promoting their shared image “Fragrant Hill in the past; Zhongshan, Zhuhai and Macao today” and jointly hold promotional activities in various Mainland cities along high-speed rail routes to encourage visitations to the three destinations in one trip. Back in 2006, the tourism authorities of Zhongshan, Zhuhai and Macao signed the “Memorandum of Cooperation in Tourism between Zhongshan, Zhuhai and Macao” to enhance their collaboration in tourism and brand their cities as one regional destination around the theme of Fragrant Hill and Dr. Sun Yat Sen’s life history. The three tourism authorities carried out various joint promotions in a number of countries and regions, including tourism presentations in Chengdu and Chongqing last year. The three offices also promoted multi-destination tour routes together with Tourism Administration of Guangdong Province, Tourism Administration of Guangzhou Municipality and Tourism Administration of Shaoguan Municipality in Malaysia and Singapore last year.
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