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With the approval from the Ministry of Education and in line with the development objectives of the Macao SAR government, the University of Macau (UM) takes the lead in delivering teaching activities in the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin. Through the establishment of a campus in the Cooperation Zone, UM aims to nurture more talent to meet the industrial development needs of both the Macao SAR and the Cooperation Zone. During the transitional period, some of UM’s postgraduate programmes are delivered in the Cooperation Zone.
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To promote interdisciplinary collaboration and academic exchange, the Institute of Collaborative Innovation (ICI) at the University of Macau (UM) held the 6th Macau Symposium on Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MSCBS 2025). The event brought together experts and scholars from renowned universities and research institutions including Stanford University, the California Institute of Technology, Peking University, The University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to discuss related topics. Over 270 attendees joined the symposium.
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In view of the compensatory rest day for All Soul’s Day, the outpatient services of the Macao Union Medical Center (including all specialist clinics, the Imagiology Centre, radiation therapy, blood drawing and specimen collection services), the Ambulatory Medical Centre, as well as the outpatient and physical examination services of the International Medical Centre will be closed on 3 November (Monday). However, inpatient and hemodialysis services will operate as usual.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that receipts and expenditure of the Transport, Storage & Communications Sector amounted to MOP28.65 billion and MOP23.59 billion respectively in 2024, up by 7.5% and 8.3% year-on-year. Gross Surplus of the sector totalled MOP5.34 billion.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the average occupancy rate of guest rooms of hotel establishments stood at 89.3% in the first three quarters of 2025, an uplift of 3.9 percentage points year-on-year. Number of guests increased by 0.1% year-on-year to 10,907,000. Meanwhile, number of inbound package tour visitors decreased by 7.8% year-on-year to 1,379,000.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that licensed motor vehicles in the Macao Special Administrative Region totalled 253,515 as at the end of the third quarter of 2025, up by 0.7% year-on-year. In the first three quarters, cross-border vehicular traffic (8,169,143 trips) rose by 22.5% year-on-year, whereas passenger ferry trips (57,884 trips) and arriving and departing commercial flights at the Macau International Airport (40,797 trips) dropped by 3.1% and 3.8% respectively. As at the end of the third quarter, number of mobile phone subscribers (1,502,744) and internet subscribers (782,946) showed respective growth of 4.4% and 1.6% year-on-year.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the economy of the Macao Special Administrative Region (Macao SAR) continued to make steady progress in the third quarter of 2025, driven by further growth in exports of services, supported by surging visitor arrivals during the summer peak season and the sustained positive momentum in the tourism industry in the Macao SAR, alongside steady domestic private consumption. The preliminary figure for Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanded by 8.0%year-on-year in real terms to MOP103.86 billion in the third quarter of 2025. The overall economic output corresponded to 92.6% of the total in the same period of 2019.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that total value of merchandise exports increased by 2.1% year-on-year to MOP10.31 billion in the first three quarters of 2025, of which value of re-exports (MOP9.23 billion) grew by 2.8% while value of domestic exports (MOP1.08 billion) fell by 3.7%. Total value of merchandise imports dropped by 3.7% year-on-year to MOP91.49 billion. In the first three quarters, external merchandise trade totalled MOP101.80 billion, and merchandise trade deficit amounted to MOP81.18 billion.
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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%) for July - September 2025 fell by 0.2 percentage points over the previous period (June - August 2025).
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that receipts and expenditure of Wholesale & Retail Trade totalled MOP126.18 billion and MOP115.39 billion respectively in 2024, down by 8.4% and 6.7% year-on-year. Gross Surplus amounted to MOP11.61 billion.
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