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The Business Research and Training Centre (BRTC), Faculty of Business Administration (FBA), University of Macau (UM), and the Accounting Development and Research Centre, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, jointly held an online conference for a special issue of the leading international accounting journal Abacus. Titled ‘Accounting, Auditing and Corporate Governance in China’, the conference attracted over 250 experts and scholars from mainland China, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ghana, Macao and Hong Kong.
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The University of Macau (UM) recently made new progress in nucleic acid analysis techniques. A research team from UM’s Institute of Microelectronics proposed a novel DNA amplification enhancer to significantly improve the performance of DNA amplification methods in both benchtop assays and on-chip assays in microfluidic devices. This enhancer would allow users to observe, with the naked eye, the results of nucleic acid amplification tests for different kinds of viruses, such as the novel coronavirus, thereby facilitating fast, portable virus testing for large populations. The study has been published in the well-known international journal Lab on a Chip. The article was selected as featured paper to appear in the back cover of the journal.
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This year, Tourism Retail and Marketing Management students from the Macao Institute for Tourism Studies engaged in a project to aid mbox co. Limited and Robi3 Macau co. Limited who specialise in smart vending machine. The project was to aid the development of their first vending machine that makes and sell egg waffle. This project was initially introduced in the classroom and later completed via virtual methods due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Last week, the third plenary sessionof the13th National People’s Congress (NPC) held concurrently with theChinese People’sPolitical Consultative Conference (CPPCC) concluded successfully in Beijing. Having attended the events, President Lei Heong Iok and Vice-President Lok Po of the Council of Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) shared the spirit of the Two Sessions 2020 with all MPI peers and encouraged love for the motherland and love for Macao.
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Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI), Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS), and the School of Professional and Continuing Education, University of Hong Kong (HKUSPACE) gathered online in the morning of June 8 and signed an agreement to establish the “Greater Bay Area Portuguese Language Education Alliance”. The establishment of the Alliance aims to further implement the “Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area” to promote development and cooperation in the education and curriculum of the three regions and to foster the integration, innovation, sharing and development of Portuguese language education via the exchange of teachers and students, the organization of joint academic seminars and academic competitions, and the deepening of cooperation and development in research projects of various aspects.
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In its constant bid to dynamically interact with the local arts scene, the Macao Cultural Centre, under the auspices of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, is supporting the development of local productions, in both the audio-visual and the performing arts fields. With a budget topping MOP 3,200,000 these commissioning projects provide a platform for some of the city’s most prolific creators.
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Macao Post and Telecommunications Bureau announces that an additional new stamp theme will be included on the Issues Plan 2020: “Fight Against the Epidemic Together” to be issued on 24^th June 2020.
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Two teams formed by University of Macau (UM) students, namely ‘2048 (Macau) Limited’ and ‘An Information Database for Enterprises Based on Natural Language Processing’, recently won the first prize and the third prize, respectively, at the 2020 Bank of China Trophy One Million Dollar Macao Regional Entrepreneurship Competition. Because of the novel coronavirus outbreak, the final stage of the competition was held on the internet. A team named ‘Colorful City’ from the Macau University of Science and Technology won the second prize. The winning teams will represent Macao in the Grand Final of the One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition.
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