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Cultural Affairs Bureau launches intangible cultural heritage workshops to celebrate the China Cultural and Natural Heritage Day promoting intangible cultural heritage and a healthy lifestyle online
In response to the “China Cultural and Natural Heritage Day” on 13 June 2020, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym) will hold a series of activities from 13 to 21 June, including the “Demonstration Workshop on making Cheongsam and Chinese Wedding Dress (kwan kwa)” and “Beijing Opera Mask Creative Workshop”, which introduce the unique charm of intangible cultural heritage to the public. In addition, IC will share information about intangible cultural heritage and the concept of healthy lifestyle with the public online, giving the public a deeper understanding of the relationship between intangible cultural heritage and their daily lives and raising the public’s awareness of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. IC will deploy the appropriate measures according to the anti-epidemic guidelines of the Health Bureau.
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Progress of COVID-19 Research Projects
In order to strengthen Macao Special Administrative Region's effective response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Science and Technology Development Fund (the FDCT) has solicited related research proposals in this February from local universities and science and technology enterprises. 26 projects have been funded out of the 74 received applications, in which 22 of the funded projects are university projects and the other 4 are science enterprise projects. To enhance the application of the research outcomes, the FDCT would periodically evaluate all the funded COVID-19 projects and would report the general status to the public. The progress of two of the projects is as follows:
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Mortgage loans statistics – April 2020
According to statistics released today by the Monetary Authority of Macao, new approvals of residential mortgage loans (RMLs) and commercial real estate loans (CRELs) both decreased in April 2020. With regard to the outstanding balances, RMLs remained virtually unchanged whereas CRELs witnessed an increase.
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MPI Seniors Academy Taipa School Recruits New Students for Academic Year 2020/2021
The Seniors Academy (ACS) Taipa School of Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) was inauguratedin November 2019, and provided a good number of 4-month short courses for 163 senior students. They expressed high satisfaction with the new learning environment and the teaching quality. They wish to join the courses again, so that they could keep on learning and develop their sense of worthiness.
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Certain Macao residents eligible for travel to Zhuhai will also be able to apply for exemption from Zhuhai quarantine
Certain eligible Macao residents permitted to make a boundary-crossing journey to Zhuhai in Guangdong Province, are shortly to be permitted exemption from undergoing a 14-day medical observation in Zhuhai.
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Macao to launch special ferry service to/from Hong Kong International Airport
The Government of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) will launch from 17 June a special ferry service between Taipa Ferry Terminal and Hong Kong International Airport.
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