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The Chief Executive, Mr Ho Iat Seng, today said the Government of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) would spare no effort in realising aspirations outlined by General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Mr Xi Jinping, at the grand ceremony held in Beijing to mark the CPC’s centenary.
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The “Collective Exhibition of Macao Artists”, organized by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym), accepts applications from 16 to 18 July (Friday to Sunday) from 10am to 7pm (open during lunch hour). Interested parties are welcome to submit completed and signed application forms, copies of identification documents and their works at the Old Court Building (Avenida da Praia Grande) during the abovementioned period.
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Four sessions of the “Exhibitor Training Course for Macao Enterprises”, organised by the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM), were successfully held recently and attracted over 270 participants from various industries, including trade, advertising design and production, speciality and souvenirs, retail and MICE. Some participants said that the course has helped them learn about and adapt to new trends within the MICE industry to explore a broader market.
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According to the Legal Deposit Regime regarding Macao publications, the Department of Public Library Management under the Cultural Affairs Bureau is responsible for the collection, preservation and management of local publications and the provision of materials for research purposes. In accordance with the statistics on registration of the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) requests provided by the Macao ISBN Agency, 759 books were slated for publication in 2020, a slight decrease of 30 books in comparison with 2019, which indicates that in general, local publications have not been significantly impacted by the pandemic. In 2020, 766 publications were submitted to the Macao Central Library for collection under the Legal Deposit Regime, including 696 printed books, 68 e-books and 2 types of books in other media.
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The Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum & Exhibition (MIECF) has been held since 2008, and has evolved into a fair certified by the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI) since 2011. Over the years, MIECF has drawn many businesspeople from Mainland China, Macao and beyond to participate, striving to give full play to its role as an international platform for the environmental protection industry, technology transfer and sustainable development, through which businesspeople from all over the world can exchange the latest trends and information with each other. In so doing, they can seize development opportunities while keeping abreast of the latest information on the environmental protection industry and relevant technologies. In the past, some enterprises won the favour of international exhibitors through the MIECF, while others scaled up their business and jointly expanded green business opportunities.
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July is a contribution month of the Social Security Fund (abbreviated to FSS in Macao). In this month, employers are required to pay obligatory system contributions for their local long-term employees for the second quarter of 2021. If a non-resident worker is hired, the employer is required to pay the employment fee as well. In addition, beneficiaries of the arbitrary system please also pay their contributions in July. The FSS reminds employers already applied for the use of electronic filing service that the relevant account has been changed to use the entity user account of “My Government Account of Macao SAR” as the login account, and it calls on employers, and beneficiaries of the arbitrary system to use the electronic payment channels as much as possible.
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The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) is going to conduct the decennial Population Census from 7 to 21 August this year, with the aim of collecting the latest demographic and housing information of Macao. The Census covers all units for residential, commercial and other purposes in Macao, as well as individuals living or staying in these units. All Census respondents will receive an advance notification letter from DSEC in early August. In addition, DSEC launched a webpage for the 2021 Population Census (https://www.dsec.gov.mo/Censos2021) to provide the public with the latest news and updates about the Census.
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Inspired by agile insects in nature, a research team led by Prof Zhong Junwen, assistant professor in the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) of the University of Macau (UM) and a member of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics of UM, has developed robotic insects that are only 3cm long with ultrahigh agility and a controlled trajectory. The study has been published in Science Robotics, the top journal in the field of robotics. This is the first time that a research study by Macao scholars has been published in this journal. So far, the journal has published less than ten papers from higher education institutions in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
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By applying for the use of Electronic Filing Service of the Social Security Fund (abbreviated to FSS in Macao), employers can easily and quickly use the online system to file their obligatory system contributions, view and download the payment advice information of various types of contributions payable, and make payments through various electronic channels. In response to the entry into force of Law No. 2/2020 (Electronic Governance), the relevant system requires the use of entity user account of “My Government Account of Macao SAR” as the login account from now on.
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A team formed by researchers in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) of the University of Macau (UM), the Department of Biology of the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), and the Department of Bioinformatics of Huazhong Agricultural University (HZAU) has reported significant discoveries on the establishment of three-dimensional (3D) genome structures during Xenopus tropicalis embryonic development. The research results will help people better understand the various defects and diseases caused by genetic abnormalities, such as the occurrence of cancer. The study has been published in the internationally renowned journal Nature Genetics.
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