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17th Macao City Fringe Festival takes “Treasures Hunting” as theme exploring the city’s overlooked values
Art breaks free from performance halls and invades all corners of the city, creating unlimited possibilities. The 17th Macao City Fringe Festival, organized by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, is themed “Treasures Hunting” and will be held from 12 to 21 January 2018, featuring a total of 23 wonderful programmes, as well as 10 outreach activities, such as workshops, talks and art critique, among others, leading the public to uncover the city’s treasures and explore overlooked values in the interaction between people.
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China Banking Regulatory Commission and the Monetary Authority of Macao sign a Memorandum of Understanding to support Macao’s Development in Featured Finance
The Monetary Authority of Macao (AMCM) and the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) signed the “Memorandum of Understanding on Cooperation in the Development of Macao’s Featured Finance” in the afternoon of 5 December to strengthen mutual exchange and cooperation for promoting the development of featured finance in Macao.
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Consumer Council conducts price survey on selling prices of fresh pork and vegetables from Zhuhai and Macao
For the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June, Consumer Council collects prices of fresh pork from wet markets and supermarkets on 5 December for consumers’ reference. The mentioned data collected during 29 November to 5 December are used for comparing the average selling price of the same products from Zhuhai. The relevant data has been uploaded to the Council’s website for consumers’ reference.
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Chief Executive to visit Beijing for duty visit
The Chief Executive, Mr Chui Sai On, will be on his duty visit to Beijing from 13 to 16 December.
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GGCT reminds that Level 2 Travel Alert to Bali remains in force
In view of the current situation in Bali, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China extended the validity of the security alert to Bali until the 4th of January 2018. Following is the translated version of the full text:
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Various Overseas Conventions Return to Macao Macao’s Software and Hardware for Conventions Extolled by International Conventions Organisers
The Macao SAR government, in compliance with its policy objectives, will continue to support the development of the convention and exhibition industry (C&E industry), which has seen rapid growth, and will use innovating methods to cultivate this industry. Guided by the policy of “priority to conventions”, the government will strive to encourage more professional and international brand conventions and exhibitions to be held in Macao to accelerate the growth of the C&E industry. It will also motivate organisers of conventions and exhibitions to take guided tours of the neighbourhoods, inspiring high-end visiting merchants participating in the events to purchase goods locally, and then the comprehensive development of the connected industries and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) will be triggered. Since the beginning of 2017, there have been a number of overseas international conventions held in the city. This is attributed to not only the strengths of Macao’s complete set of software and hardware that support conventions and exhibitions but also Macao’s unique attractions. Such factors could motivate them to hold conventions again here.
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Monetary and financial statistics – October 2017
According to statistics released today by the Monetary Authority of Macao, broad money supply rebounded in October with a stable share of patacas. Meanwhile, both resident deposits and loans increased from a month earlier.
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