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Consumer Council conducted its latest ‘Supermarket price survey’ in January on 23 January for the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June. Surveyed locations included supermarkets at Lam Mau, Patane and San Kio areas in Santo António Parish.
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In order to promote the development of classical music in Macao, to encourage young local musicians to explore their musical potential, and to provide them valuable stage experience and learning opportunities, the Cultural Affairs Bureau organizes the “35^thMacao Young Musicians Competition”, between 22^nd July and 3^rd August, to be held in designated venues in Macao. Applications will be open from 20^th to 26^th March.
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With the seven-day-long Spring Festival Golden Week (27 January – 2 February) approaching, Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) is strenuously getting prepared for the peak period with a variety of measures adopted as follows: activation of tourism notification system, more scrupulous inspections, reminders to trade about various concerns, allocation of staff at different locations to provide tourism information for visitors, food guide publication as well as numerous mega celebrations during Chinese New Year and more. The above measures are taken to safeguard service quality in the industry, optimize the tourism environment and cater to the needs of residents and visitors for a memorable vacation in Macao.
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On 23^rdJanuary 2017, a cachet will be available for our customers at the Coloane Post Office. Besides the new cachet, the existing cachets are available at the Philatelic Shop of General Post Office, Maritime Ferry Terminal Post Office, “Rua do Campo” Post Office, Airport Post Office, Carmo Post Office and the Communications Museum. The cachets let our residents or tourists to commemorate their visit at the Post Offices.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 2,814,450 in December 2016, up by 6.8% year-on-year and 8.7% month-to-month. Overnight visitors rose by 16.5% to 1,550,406, accounting for 55.1% of the total, while same-day visitors decreased by 3.1% to 1,264,044. The average length of stay of visitors held stable year-on-year at 1.2 days; the average stay of overnight visitors and same-day visitors was 2.1 days and 0.2 day respectively.
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The University of Macau (UM) invited Prof Aaron Ciechanover, the 2004 recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, and Prof Arieh Warshel, the 2013 recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry, to give lectures to outstanding local students admitted by UM through the Principals’ Recommended Admission Scheme.
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The Macao Orchestra (OM, from the Portuguese acronym) under the auspices of the Cultural Affairs Bureau, presented the concert “Piano Encounter – Meet Alice”, part of the Shining Virtuosos series, on 21 January, at the Macao Tower Auditorium. Under the baton of the Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Macao Orchestra, Lü Jia, OM joined hands with well-known young pianist Alice Sara Ott, who gave an exciting musical performance featuring Robert Schumann’s music from the Romantic Period.
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Co-organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) and the Macao Artist Society, the opening ceremony of the “Local Ginger – Cenozoic Graffiti Art Exhibition” and “Impression of Macau – Art Exhibition of Andre Lui” was held on 21 January 2017, at the Lakeside Gallery in the Anim’Arte NAM VAN.
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The University of Macau (UM) Department of Economics released its Macroeconomic Forecast for Macao 2017 today. Macao’s economy is beginning to recover. The growth of Macao’s real GDP turned positive, with a 4.0% year-on-year increase and MOP 86.7 billion recorded in the third quarter of 2016. It declined by 12.4% and 7.0% on a year-on-year basis in the first and second quarters of 2016 respectively (Figure 1 and 2). Based on the forecast, Macao’s economy will continue its steady growth in 2017.
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Consumer Council conducted its latest ‘Supermarket price survey’ inJanuary on 20 January for the implementation of Section 2b), Article 10, Law 4/95/M of 12 June. Surveyed locations included 12 supermarkets in Sé Parish.
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