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The Monetary Authority of Macao (AMCM) alerts the public to the money transfer service from Macao to the Philippines being offered through a social media account “Oversea Mama PH”. Such account is not an authorised entity to carry out regulated financial activities in the Macao Special Administrative Region.
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According to statistics released today by the Monetary Authority of Macao, newly approved small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) credit retreated in the second half of 2019. On the other hand, the outstanding balance of SME loans rose year-on-year while the share of SME loans to major industries remained stable.
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Starting from 2^nd of March, the Shop of Communications Museum of CTT will reopen to the public, from Monday to Friday: 9:00~13:00, 14:30~17:45 (Friday 17:30). However, the Communications Museum’s exhibition galleries remain closed until further notice.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that owing to the impact of COVID-19 epidemic, visitor arrivals in January 2020 dropped by 16.8% year-on-year to 2,850,465. Same-day visitors (1,530,832) and overnight visitors (1,319,633) decreased by 14.2% and 19.6% respectively. The average length of stay of visitors held steady year-on-year at 1.2 days; overnight visitors extended their stay by 0.1 day to 2.3 days, whereas the duration for same-day visitors remained unchanged at 0.2 day.
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The applications for the “Academic Research Grants”, launched by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym), will be open from 1 March to 31 May this year.
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Due to the development of the novel coronavirus, CTT Macao would like to inform that opening hour of the underneath Post Offices on 29^th February 2020, while the other Post Offices will be closed temporarily.

The money transfer service of Western Union in post offices continues to be suspended on this day.

The location for parcels pick up is Central Post Office with entrance in Rua da Sé. Both recipients of parcels or EMS items can use the “Track-and-Trace” service in CTT’s website to check the status of their mails http://www.ctt.gov.mo/MacauPost/Contents/MailTrack.aspx.

Please pay attention that there are delays in all services provides, in particular, the delivery of postal items and delays will not be compensated during this period until further notice.

For consulting the latest information of CTT’s services, please check CTT website.

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As the situation ofthe novel coronavirus epidemic in Macao is becoming stable, the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (DSEJ)has set out the conditions for class resumption of non-tertiary education schools after it has communicated with relevant departments like the Health Bureau, education groups and school representatives as well as listened to their opinions on the class resumption plan. According to the opinions provided by the Health Bureau on class resumption, the DSEJhas initially planned that when there are no new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus found in Macao and Guangdong Province for 14 consecutive days, and both Zhuhai and Zhongshan City announced that they will resume classes, the DSEJ will then announce class resumption for non-tertiary education schools 14 days in advance. At present, due to the epidemic development in the neighbouring regions, there is a chanceof class resumption in late April, and if conditions permit, classes may be resumed earlier.

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To celebrate the 14^th Anniversary of Communications Museum, Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau announces that a Temporary Post Counter will be set up at our Philatelic Shop of General Post Office and Communications Museum on 1^st March 2020, to provide the commemorative postmark cancellation service for the “14^th Anniversary of Communications Museum”. Opening hours are as follows,
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To celebrate the 136^th Anniversary of Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau, Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau announces that a Temporary Post Counter will be set up at our Philatelic Shop of General Post Office and Communications Museum on 1^st March 2020, to provide the commemorative postmark cancellation service for the “136^th Anniversary of Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau”. Opening hours are as follows,
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Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau issued the stamp themes “Dim Sum” and “Hawker's Food” under the stamp series of “Gastronomy and Sweets” in 1999 and 2002. The third series with the stamp theme “Gastronomy and Sweets III – Traditional Popular Snacks” will be issued on 1^st March, 2020.
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