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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that there were 3,319 establishments operating in the Transport, Storage & Communications Sector in 2021, a decrease of 107 year-on-year; total number of persons engaged went down by 1,454 to 20,374. Receipts and expenditure of the sector amounted to MOP19.07 billion and MOP16.89 billion respectively, up by 12.5% and 8.1% year-on-year. Gross Surplus totalled MOP2.17 billion, an upsurge of 70.2% year-on-year. Gross Value Added that measures the sectoral contribution to the economy rose by 11.4% year-on-year to MOP6.81 billion, while Gross Fixed Capital Formation fell by 18.9% to MOP645 million.
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In order to meet social development and further facilitate residents' access to social security information, the Social Security Fund has fully updated its official website ( www.fss.gov.mo ), which focuses on integrating the online enquiry services and promoting the electronic service functions to enhance service efficiency.
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The Chief Executive, Mr Ho Iat Seng, answered legislators’ questions on 16 November regarding the Policy Address for the Fiscal Year 2023, and reiterated the Government’s commitment to facilitating development of the Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone in Hengqin, and to bolstering Macao’s integration into national development.
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The Identification Services Bureau (DSI) has been continuously expanding electronic services in line with the development of electronic administration of the Macao Special Administration Region Government. At the same time, DSI strives to promote digitalization of internal management. The first phase starts with the implementation of a paper-free workflow in the operation related to the Visit Permit of Residents of Macao SAR to Hong Kong SAR (hereinafter called Visit Permit to Hong Kong). The digitalization covers the entire workflow from receiving application form, collecting signature and handling documents of applicants at the service counter, to internal examination and approval of application, document production and so on. All of these will improve workflow of internal operation, enhance work efficiency and effectively strengthen the management efficiency of the department. Starting form today (17 November 2022), DSI launches online submission of supplementary documents for Visit Permit to Hong Kong application. With the new online submission service, citizens no longer need to proceed to the department in person for providing additional information. Documents can be done in only one visit.
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The results of the 40^th Macao Youth Musicians Competition organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym), have already been announced. Participants can check the results through the Macao Young Musicians Competition website at www.icm.gov.mo/CJMM.
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In order to further improve the mechanism for the protection of Macao’s World Heritage, build an intelligent, standardised and systematic World Heritage protection and management system that can better meet the international and national protection and management requirements, establish the positioning of Macao as “a base for exchange and cooperation where Chinese culture is the mainstream and diverse cultures coexist”, with the support of the National Cultural Heritage Administration of China, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from its Portuguese acronym) has established and inaugurated the Macao World Heritage Monitoring Centre on 16 November. The Monitoring Centre is located at No. 5-7, Rua de Sanches de Miranda.
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The Macao SAR government today (16 November) held an award presentation ceremony for the Macao Science and Technology Awards 2022. The University of Macao (UM) has won 14 awards, accounting for over 60 per percent of all the awards presented this year, including winning all awards in the Technological Invention Award category. UM’s postgraduate students have also performed very well, with 15 doctoral students and five master’s students receiving the Scientific and Technological R&D Award for Postgraduates.
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According to the statistics released today by the Monetary Authority of Macao, on 30 June 2022, investment of Macao residents (including individuals, the government and other legal entities but excluding Macao’s foreign exchange reserves) in securities issued by unrelated non-residents reached MOP1,006.1 billion at current market value, representing a decline of 8.4% from end-2021 or 6.6% year-on-year. Among the various instruments of portfolio investment, equity securities (including mutual funds and investment trust units), long-term debt securities and short-term debt securities were valued at MOP331.9 billion, MOP623.6 billion and MOP50.6 billion respectively. As compared with end-2021, the market values of equity securities, long-term debt securities and short-term debt securities dropped by 14.7%, 3.7% and 17.8% respectively.
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To further enhance the transparency of supermarket prices, the Consumer Council has increased the number of surveyed supermarkets and now includes 102 supermarkets in its supermarket price survey work, number of surveyed products have been increased to 400 items divided in 15 categories. The search function of the “Macao Price Information Platform” app has also been improved for consumers’ easy navigation.
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