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IFTM will launch two brand-new postgraduate programmes, namely the Master of Science in Digital Marketing and Analytics and its corresponding Postgraduate Diploma in the academic year 2023/2024. The new programmes will be in effect after being published in MSAR Gazette. The programmes, using English as the teaching medium, will focus on the core area of marketing and high-end retail management in the context of digital transformation. Students will be nurtured to grasp the digital media communication and data analytical skills.
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The Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) and the Hubei Provincial Committee of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) jointly organised the “Business Matching Sessions for Wine of Portuguese-speaking Countries (Wuhan Station)” yesterday (31 March). A total of more than 30 representatives of Hubei and Macao enterprises participated and XX business matching and negotiations sessions were facilitated, covering trade, catering, supermarket, and other industries.
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According to statistics released today by the Monetary Authority of Macao, broad money supply retreated in February. Meanwhile, both resident deposits and loans decreased from a month earlier.
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To commemorate the 30^th anniversary of the promulgation of the "Macao Basic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China", Macao Polytechnic University held the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Public Management Forum" for two consecutive days starting from March 31^st. More than 100 participants, including officials from the Macao SAR government, experts and scholars from the Mainland, Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Macao, as well as teachers and students from higher education institutions and other members of the community, attended the event to promote academic exchanges and cooperation in the field of public management in the Greater Bay Area and to create a regional academic exchange platform.
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The Financial Intelligence Office, as the coordinating agency of the Interdepartmental Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Working Group, held the first plenary meeting this year on 29 March 2023. The main agenda items discussed were the summary of the 3^rd round ML/TF/PF risk assessment of the Macao SAR and the outreach work plan for 2023. Another topic of discussion was the latest revisions of international AML/CFT standards and their impacts to Macao SAR. During the meeting, latest requirements for these revised standards were discussed, which include promoting transparency of beneficial ownership of legal persons and legal arrangements to prevent criminals from using complex corporate structures to conceal illegal activities and fund flows. The Working Group would consider the need to revise the relevant laws, regulations and guidelines according to the revision of the latest international standards on AML and CFT.
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Mr. Miles Lee, Manager of Food and Beverage development, Galaxy Macao, was invited by School of Hospitality Management to provide a guest lecture for IFTM students. The lecture titled “Feast Your Way to Success: Strategic Management in F&B”, which is related to the core course of several undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
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Anti-epidemic measures for visitors entering Macao
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The Government of the Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR) today held a ceremony to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the promulgation of the Basic Law of the MSAR of the People’s Republic of China.
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The Estoril swimming pool managed by Sports Bureau (ID) will be opened to the public from tomorrow (April 1^st) to November 30^th , divided into in three sessions per day: 1^st Session 07:00-11:00, 2^nd Session 12:00-16:00 and 3^rd Session 17:00-22:30. The pool will be temporarily closed for routine pool cleaning during the first session every Wednesday (on the occasion that Wednesday is a public holiday, the pool will remain opened and the cleaning will be postponed to the first session next following day).
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