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The Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) Government is to realise and implement in an orderly manner the major goals and tasks outlined in the culture and tourism development plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Greater Bay Area).
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In order to convey festive love and happiness with the students during the Chinese New Year, IFTM had organised a series of celebration activities from late January.
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In order to promote the development of cultural and creative industries in Macao, strengthen the innovative application of local cultural and museum resources, and boost the design and production of cultural and creative products featuring local history and culture, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym) has developed 18 distinctive cultural and creative products in five series, by integrating creative design, everyday aesthetics and popular culture with the abundant collections of the Macao Museum and the Macao Museum of Art. These products will be on sale at a number of locations in Macao from March.
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The University of Macao (UM) launched the UM Macao Fellow Programme in 2015, in order to attract outstanding local talent to develop their careers in Macao. Over the past six years since the launch of the programme, a total of 25 outstanding young scholars from Macao who graduated from renowned universities in China and abroad have become UM Macao Fellows through a rigorous selection process, and 11 of them have been recruited to the rank of assistant professor.
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With the aim of continuing to help local enterprises to “go global” for more business opportunities, the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) will once again organise ‘Made in Macao’ food companies, local agents of food products from Portuguese-speaking countries, and local firms which provide professional services relevant to Portuguese-speaking countries, to join the 4^th China International Import Expo (CIIE). Application for participation is open until 2 April.
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In order to analyze and promote the new opportunities initiated by the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, on the occasion of the 2nd anniversary of the promulgation of the “Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area”, the International Portuguese Training Centre of Macao Polytechnic Institute held a lecture on the Greater Bay Area and the academic cooperation between China and the Portuguese speaking countries on 25 February. The speaker was Professor Joaquim Ramos de Carvalho, Director of the International Portuguese Training Centre and former Vice-President of the University of Coimbra. The lecture attracted teachers and students from Macao higher education institutions, scholars and interested parties, and it was lively and interactive.
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【Infographic】Lowered price for nucleic acid testing
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Macao has so far received a total of 600,425 doses of COVID-19 vaccine – produced respectively by Sinopharm and BioNTech – and it has been made available for vaccination of members of the public.
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In line with the Macao SAR government's policy to encourage lifelong learning, the University of Macau (UM) Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) offers courses to help Macao residents enhance their personal qualities and skills, thereby promoting economic and industrial diversification in Macao and fostering a culture of lifelong learning in society. Three new courses offered by the centre, namely Certificate in Artificial Intelligence Course, Certificate in Financial Technology, and Certificate in Android Apps Production, are now open for applications.
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Since late April 2020, the Director of the Financial Intelligence Office (GIF) has been formally appointed as the Co-chair of the Asia/Pacific Joint Group (APJG), a regional sub-group of the International Cooperation Review Group (ICRG) which is responsible for establishing sanction and monitoring lists under the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an international anti-money laundering organization.
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