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UM gives teaching award to excellent faculty member
At the Congregation 2019 held today (25 May), the University of Macau (UM) presented the Teaching Excellence Award, which recognises faculty members with outstanding performance in teaching. The recipient in the 2018/2019 academic year is Assistant Professor Dr Wang Ruibing from the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences.
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DSI Director Ao Ieong U visited service center affiliated to Federação das Associações dos Operários de Macau
In order to strengthen communications and exchange between public departments and the youth in Macao, Ao Ieong U, the Director of the Identification Services Bureau (DSI), led her team to visit a service center, Stage, affiliated to Federação das Associações dos Operários de Macau today (24 May). They visited the center’s facilities to have better understanding of the work of the association and exchanged views with the association members, which helpedencourage effective interaction for collecting the youth’s opinions about DSI’s work and its future development.
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MGTO presents first culinary training session with local trade – Celebrity Chef Workshop
Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) partners with the trade once again to organize the first culinary training session for professional chefs in Macao. Co-organizing the Celebrity Chef Workshop with Galaxy Entertainment Group today (24 May), the Office encourages local chefs to keep enhancing their culinary expertise and carry on Macao’s gastronomic culture with creativity. The workshop also aims to promote exchange among culinary professionals and join each other in steering the city forward as a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy. The organizers will edit the video of the workshop into a lecture version for tourism and catering industry professionals and people interested in pursuing career as a chef to view and learn more about the cooking skills involved.
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UM presents academic awards to outstanding graduates
The University of Macau (UM) today (24 May) presented academic prizes to 66 outstanding graduates at the Congregation 2019. In this academic year, the university gave out over MOP 4 million in more than 60 kinds of academic prizes and scholarships to over 400 students.
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Children’s Theatre Discovering the Forbidden City at CCM
The Macao Cultural Centre, under the auspices of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, presents The Little Kid in the Forbidden City, a children’s theatre to be staged in two shows on June 5 and 6 (Wednesday and Thursday) at CCM’s Grand Auditorium.
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Results of retail sales survey for 1st quarter of 2019
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that value of retail sales for the first quarter of 2019 decreased by 1.9% year-on-year to MOP20.38 billion; yet, an increase of 2.6% was observed as compared with the revised figure (MOP19.87 billion) in the fourth quarter of 2018. In the first quarter, Watches, Clocks & Jewellery accounted for 20.9% of the total retail sales, followed by Goods in Department Stores (17.6%), Leather Goods (13.6%) and Adults' Clothing (12.4%).
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Health statistics 2018
Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that the 5 hospitals in Macao provided a total of 1,604 in-patient beds in 2018, up by 8 year-on-year. Number of in-patients increased by 2.2% year-on-year to 60,000, with the average hospital stay rising by 0.2 day to 7.2 days. The occupany rate of in-patient beds grew by 3.6 percentage points to 74.4%, owing to the increases in the number of in-patients and the average hospital stay.
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