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In order to mark the 100^th anniversary of North-American composer Leonard Bernstein, the Macao Orchestra (OM, from the Portuguese acronym), under the auspices of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, presents the concert “Leonard Bernstein’s 100^th Anniversary by Lio Kuokman and the Macao Orchestra” on 24 February, at 8pm, at the Macao Cultural Centre Grand Auditorium. Led by Lio Kuokman, a renowned musician hailing from Macao, the concert offers a programme dedicated to Leonard Bernstein. Lio Kuokman also takes on the role of pianist and reveals his great talent in a solo performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. In conjunction with the theme of this concert season “Along with the musical joy”, the Orchestra specially organizes the activity “Music Hour with Lio Kuokman”, on 23 February, at 7pm, at the Macao Cultural Centre Conference Room. Admission is free and reservations are available through tel. no. 2853 0782 during office hours.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the Composite CPI in December 2017 rose by 2.04% year-on-year to 111.08, the highest increase in 2017 and the largest growth since July 2016. The inflation rate for 2017 was 1.23%, down further from 2.37% in 2016.
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Rose Lai Neng, a professor of finance and the associate dean (research and development) of the Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau (UM), recently received the 2017 Edwin S Mills Real Estate Economics Best Paper Award, for her paper titled ‘US House Prices over the Last 30 Years: Bubbles, Regime Shifts and Market (In) Efficiency’, which was co-authored with Prof Robert Van Order from George Washington University.
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To be in line with the idea of “one-stop service” of the Special Administrative Region Government, the Identification Services Bureau (DSI) has set up service counter and self-service kiosk at the Government Services Centre in Areia Preta since 2009 and continuously increases service items. Starting from today, DSI’s counter on the second floor in the above-mentioned location provides application service for all kinds of certificatein the area of identification, and self-service for the application for the Certificate of Personal Data is also added to the self-service area.
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Gaming revenue in 2018 was likely to grow at a steady pace throughout the year, said today the Secretary for Economy and Finance, Mr Leong Vai Tac.
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To promote the use and development of green energy in Macao, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering under the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) and UM’s Energy Section have installed a 2.9kW grid-connected PV system on the rooftop of the FST building (E11), which converts solar energy into electricity. Since the system became fully operational. UM has been selling electricity to the Companhia de Electricidade de Macau (CEM) by supplying to the utility electricity distribution network.
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