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Consumer Council conducted its latest ‘Supermarket price survey’ on 22 October for the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June. Surveyed locations included supermarkets near Horte e Costa, Avenida do Ouvidor Arriaga and Rua da Emenda areas in Santo António Parish.
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The Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre under the University of Macau (UM) Department of Portuguese will hold a legal translation workshop every Friday from 26 October to 30 November. The workshop is open to all professionals in related fields, postgraduate students, academics, and those who are interested in the subject.
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The Chief Executive, Mr Chui Sai On, has been holding a series of meetings with local associations and scholars to sound out their views on key topics prior to the Government’s Policy Address for the Fiscal Year 2019.
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The Eleventh International Conference on the Legal Reforms of Macau in the Global Context – Gaming Concessions and Other Gaming Licensing Legal Experiences, organised by the Centre for Law Studies of the University of Macau’s (UM) Faculty of Law (FLL), will be held on 25October and 26 October at UM. All are welcome.
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For the social security system, October is the contribution month for the third quarter of this year. The Social Security Fund (abbreviated to FSS in Macao) reminds that the flow of people at the service point is expected to increase at the end of the month. In order to avoid the peak flow at month end, employers should make their payment as early as possible, and those who have already applied for electronic filing service should use electronic payment channels to make their payments as much as possible. As of 19 October, a total of 14,134 employers have already paid the obligatory system contributions for their employees, accounting for 66% of the total number of employers who need to pay contributions.
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A student team from the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Business Administration (FBA) recently won a gold prize at a digital economy innovation and entrepreneurship competition for university students from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macao.
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The Social Security Fund (abbreviated to FSS in Macao) said that the FSS had received more than 56,000 applications for the withdrawal of funds of the non-mandatory central provident fund system’s individual accounts as of 15 October. Of which 22,498 applications submitted by senior citizens aged 75 or older, individuals receiving disability pension from the FSS for more than one year, and those currently receiving special disability subsidy from the Social Welfare Bureau (SWB) have been approved. The funds will be transferred tomorrow (23 October), and the FSS has already begun to notify the applicants by mail or mobile text message (SMS).
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In order to continue to optimise schools’ enrolment mechanism, simplify the registration process for parents to enrol their children in kindergarten for the first time, the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (hereinafter referred to as the “DSEJ”) has implemented the “Central Registration for Children Entering Kindergarten for the First Time” (hereinafter referred to as “Central Registration”) since 2016. During the period of “Central Registration” in the academic year of 2019 / 2020, parents enrolling their children (who were born between 2014 and 2016) in infant education in Macao for the first time can consult the enrolment information of different schools on the DSEJ website and register their children online. They do not need to queue up at schools to obtain and submit application forms. In addition, schools do not set limit to the number of registrants and interviewees.
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