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Employment survey for November 2017 – January 2018
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that both the general unemployment rate (1.8%) and the unemployment rate of local residents (2.4%) dropped by 0.1 percentage point from the previous period (October-December 2017). Meanwhile, the underemployment rate was 0.4%, up by 0.1 percentage point.
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MICE statistics for the 4th quarter of 2017
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that a total of 378 MICE events were held in the fourth quarter of 2017, including 354 meetings & conferences, 18 exhibitions and 6 incentives. Total number of participants and attendees was 694,000.
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Government approves extension of horse race concession
The Government has approved an extension of the city’s horse racing concession for a period of 24 years and six months, said today the Secretary for Economy and Finance, Mr Leong Vai Tac.
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Applications for the Cultural Affairs Bureau “Academic Research Grant” open in March
The applications for the “Academic Research Grant”, launched by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym), will be open from 1 March to 31 May, 2018.
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UM professor wins Journal Paper of the Year Award at ENTER 2018
Yeongbae Choe, an assistant professor of international integrated resort management from the Faculty of Business Administration, University of Macau (UM), recently received the Journal Paper of the Year Award and the Best Poster Award, for his papers titled ‘Use of Social Media across the Trip Experience: An Application of Latent Transition Analysis’ and ‘Representation of Food Safety in Online Reviews’, respectively, at the ENTER 2018 Conference of the International Federation for IT and Travel & Tourism (IFITT). Dr Choe is the only person to have received two awards at this year’s conference.
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