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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that licensed motor vehicles in Macao totalled 250,063 as at end-July 2023, up by 1.1% year-on-year; light automobiles (114,717) and heavy motorcycles (108,852) rose by 1.3% and 2.2% respectively. New registration of motor vehicles in July jumped by 246.3% year-on-year to 883 (215 were electric vehicles). There were 432 light automobiles (107 of them were electric) and 391 heavy motorcycles (68 of them were electric), representing increases of 350.0% and 155.6% respectively. From January to July 2023, new registration of motor vehicles grew by 32.1% year-on-year to 6,882. Number of traffic accidents in July rose by 124.2% year-on-year to 1,130, with 381 persons injured. In the first seven months of 2023, there were 7,609 traffic accidents, which resulted in 5 deaths and 2,645 injuries.
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The cross-boundary bus service between the Hong Kong International Airport Sky Pier Terminal Transfer Coach and the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Macao Port will start operating today (August 30). Taking advantage of the favorable measure, the Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) is actively organizing and vigorously promoting the convenient Hong Kong-Macao cross-border bus service, encouraging visitors from countries and regions that have no direct flights to Macao to travel to Macao via Hong Kong, and expanding more international visitor sources.
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A mega roadshow of the “Macao Week in Tianjin” will be staged from 31 August to 4 September at Heping Road Pedestrian Street (Golden Street) in Tianjin. This event continues to feature the theme of “MinM, Macao Brands and Portuguese-Speaking Countries Products”, setting up the “Sales Area”, “Exhibition Area” and “IPIM Showcase”.
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To meet the industry’s demand for construction safety supervisors, the Centre for Continuing Education of the University of Macau (UM) and the Labour Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR government have jointly offered four intakes of the certificate course for construction safety supervisors in the past year. Launched in 2005, the course has been held for 61 intakes, with a total of 1,911 participants completing the course.
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According to the statistics of the Education and Youth Development Bureau (DSEDJ), in the 2023/2024 academic year, there are 10 higher education institutions, 76 non-higher education schools and 116 school units (formal and recurrent education) in Macao; among them, 103 school units are included in the free education system, benefiting about 80,000 students.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that a total of 132 hotel establishments offered accommodation services to the public in July 2023, an increase of 17 year-on-year. Total number of available guest rooms grew by 37.3% to 43,000. The average occupancy rate of guest rooms in July rose by 50.2 percentage points year-on-year to 89.0%; the rates for 2-star (93.1%) and 5-star hotels (92.1%) both exceeded 90%, representing respective growth of 6.8 percentage points and 71.1 percentage points.
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The 34^th issue of Books and the City, published by the Public Library of the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), is now available to the public. In order to continuously promote the concept of “enriching life through reading” and with the aim of building Macao into a “City of Reading”, the Cultural Affairs Bureau has been making great efforts to optimise the software and hardware facilities in public libraries, extending reading activities to more people in the community by launching reading activities with diversified themes and forms. The theme of this issue is “Reading • Joy — the ‘City of Reading’ Series of Activities”, and it is hoped that readers will be immersed in the sea of books through a variety of activities as if they are enjoying a spring breeze.
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According to the Social Security Fund (abbreviated to FSS in Macao), with the recovery of the global economy and the improvement of investment environment, its investment for the first half of 2023 recorded a return of about 4.5 billion patacas.
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Multiple residents filed complaints with the Judiciary Police (PJ), claiming they had received SMS messages with embedded links from impersonators of a courier company. According to the messages, the victims' parcels were withheld because of inadequate information. The embedded links would forward the victims to a new page requesting them to submit further information and pay extra fees.
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Organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym), the 35^th Macao International Music Festival (MIMF) will be held from 30 September to 30 October. Themed “Melodic Reconnections”, this edition of the MIMF will feature 16 eclectic programmes and 14 outreach activities, gathering maestros and rising stars to present music aficionados an unforgettable musical feast with impressive and refreshing music performances.
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