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CE: Government always supports Macanese community’s endeavours towards Macao’s development
The Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR) Government has always attached great importance to – and supported – the Macanese community’s endeavours in education, social services, cultural activities, gastronomy, and the legal sector. The Government will continue to do so in various sectors in the next phase of the city’s development.
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Announcement of medical service arrangements of Macao Union Hospital for Chinese New Year holiday
In view of the Chinese New Year holiday, the specialist outpatient services (including all specialist clinics, the Imagiology Centre, blood drawing and specimen collection services) and international medical services of the Macao Union Hospital will be closed in the afternoon of 28 January (Tuesday) and from 29 to 31 January (Wednesday to Friday).
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“YoBuy” Opens During Lunar New Year, Partnering with “Pou Kong Ieng” for the First Time to Host the Lunar New Year Celebration
The “Guangdong & Macao Branded Products Expo Centre” (YoBuy), situated on the sixth floor of the Qingmao Port Building, will open during the Lunar New Year and celebrate the first Lunar New Year following its official opening. To commemorate the occasion with residents and visitors. As January also signifies the one-month milestone since YoBuy’s opening, IPIM has arranged its public ambassador, “Pou Kong Ieng”, to join YoBuyto co-host the Lunar New Year celebration. At the event, the life-sized “Pou Kong Ieng” puppets will engage closely with the participants on-site. Both residents and visitors will have the chance to try their luck at the “Pou Kong Ieng Claw Game”, and make unique memories during the Lunar New Year.
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Array of intriguing activities to be held in the six historic districts to celebrate the Chinese New Year
With the aim of adopting the “1+4” appropriate economic diversification strategy and actively promoting the development of Macao as “a base for exchange and cooperation where Chinese culture is the mainstream and diverse cultures coexist”, the Macao SAR Government’s working group and the six integrated resort enterprises are continuously promoting the revitalization of Macao’s historic districts. During the occasion of the celebration of the Lunar New Year of the Snake, an array of intriguing activities will be held at the Lai Chi Vun Shipyards, the Mount Fortress Garden, the Barra Zone around the D. Carlos I dock, the Former Iec Long Firecracker Factory, the Taipa Houses, the Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro area and the Pedestrian Zone of Rua da Felicidade, celebrating the Spring Festival with residents and tourists and creating a vigorous atmosphere in the new year.
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Digital art by UM faculty and student wins gold award at Glow Shenzhen
The digital ink generative video art installation ‘Icy Fire’, created by Lampo Leong, director of the Centre for Arts and Design of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Macau (UM), and doctoral student Yanxiu Zhao, has won a gold award at ‘Glow Shenzhen 2024’, a light art festival held in Shenzhen. This year’s festival featured a total of 209 light artworks from various countries and regions around the city.
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Temporary Residency Applications Handled in 2024
In 2024, the Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute has handled 115 temporary residency applications for "Investors, Managerial Personnel and Professionals with Special Qualifications". Among them, there were 66 renewal applications, 5 applications for residency extension to family dependent, and 44 new applications. 12 new applications were approved in 2024. For more details, please visit IPIM’s official website: https://www.ipim.gov.mo/en/services/investment-residency/news/statistics/
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Transport and communications statistics for the whole year and December of 2024
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that licensed motor vehicles in Macao totalled 253,182 as at end-2024, up by 0.5% year-on-year. For the whole year of 2024, cross-border vehicular traffic (9,194,986 trips), passenger ferry trips (79,599 trips) and arriving and departing commercial flights at the Macau International Airport (56,595 trips) rose by 25.8%, 17.5% and 44.4% year-on-year respectively. As at end-2024, number of mobile phone subscribers (1,448,713) and internet subscribers (774,678) showed respective growth of 5.4% and 7.4% year-on-year.
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External merchandise trade statistics for the whole year and December of 2024
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that external merchandise trade totalled MOP142.15 billion in 2024, down by 8.2% from MOP154.78 billion in 2023. In 2024, total value of merchandise exports rose by 1.1% year-on-year to MOP13.49 billion, of which value of re-exports (MOP12.00 billion) increased by 1.8% while value of domestic exports (MOP1.49 billion) decreased by 4.0%. Total value of merchandise imports dropped by 9.0% year-on-year to MOP128.67 billion. Merchandise trade deficit totalled MOP115.18 billion in 2024, down by MOP12.93 billion from MOP128.11 billion in 2023.
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