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In line with the SAR Government’s epidemic prevention and control measures, and in accordance with the “Guidelines on Conducting Visits Abroad and Crowd Gathering Activities” issued by the Department of Health on 10 August 2021, the Cultural Affairs Bureau will cancel a number of arts and cultural performances and arrange for ticket’s refund from now until 30 September; spectators with tickets may contact the Macau Ticketing Network for refund anytime.
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The “Proceedings of the Twelfth Higher Education International Conference on Teaching and Learning Quality Assurance in Higher Education under the Pandemic” of Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) has now been published. The proceedings are a collection of selected papers from the online conference of the same name co-organised by MPI and the Asia-Pacific Quality Network (APQN) in November 2020. The sudden COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has brought great challenges to the higher education sector, and this conference was held in order to build an exchange platform for education coping with the global pandemic, and the opportunities and challenges of online education. The conference has received positive feedback from educators and scholars from around world. The publication of the proceedings provides an important reference value for the academic community to understand the teaching and learning quality assurance measures and practices of higher education institutions around the world in response to the pandemic.
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The Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) released survey results of Manpower Needs and Wages of the Gaming Sector for the second quarter of 2021. Survey coverage excludes junket promoters and junket associates.
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To ensure the completion of the Population Census, the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) extended the data collection period by 7 days to 28 August after consultation with the Health Bureau and with the implementation of pandemic prevention measures. Field visits by Census officers will resume on 23 August (Monday) and 800 Census officers will be arranged to collect data from households who have not responded to the Census.
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Health quarantine requirements and measures for inbound travellers of different identities.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that visitor arrivals totalled 789,407 in July 2021, an uplift of 49.4% month-on-month and a boost of 966.7% year-on-year. Numbers of overnight visitors (412,735) and same-day visitors (376,672) bounced back by 1,634.5% and 650.2% year-on-year respectively. The average length of stay of same-day visitors (0.1 day) remained unchanged year-on-year and that of overnight visitors (3.4 days) shortened by 1.3 days; yet, the average duration for visitors increased by 0.5 day to 1.8 days on account of a growth of 20.1 percentage points in the proportion of overnight visitors (52.3%).
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The Electoral Affairs Commission for the Legislative Assembly Election has prepared a contingency plan and epidemic-prevention measures, to cover the official campaigning period and for election day itself. This is in order to ensure Macao ID holders registered to do so, can exercise their right to vote, despite the public health and safety issues wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In response to the four confirmed cases of COVID-19 reported in Macao on 3 August, the Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre had, under the zone-specific, multi-level targeted approach to epidemic prevention and control and having regard to the level of risk, immediately implemented restrictive measures in the living areas or sites of activities of the confirmed cases on the same day.
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Today (18 August) is the first day of the new semester at the University of Macau (UM). The university welcomed close to 3,500 new undergraduate and postgraduate students. UM Rector Yonghua Song delivered a welcome speech online. In the speech, He encouraged students to cherish the variety of opportunities provided by the university and to work hard in order to grow into patriotic, globally minded, internationally competitive, socially responsible, and innovative individuals with the ability to contribute to society and create fulfilling lives for themselves.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that there were 54% of the interviewed restaurants & similar establishments reporting a year-on-year rise in receipts in June 2021, a drop of 4 percentage points from May; the corresponding proportion of Chinese Restaurants (63%) fell by 7 percentage points, while the share of Japanese & Korean Restaurants (39%) rose by 12 percentage points. Meanwhile, the proportion of interviewed retailers recording a year-on-year sales rise in June (81%) went up by 4 percentage points over the preceding month. All of the interviewed retailers of Leather Goods and Watches, Clocks & Jewellery registered a year-on-year sales increase as in May. Besides, the corresponding shares of Supermarkets (33%) and Cosmetics & Sanitary Articles Retailers (80%) grew by 11 percentage points and 10 percentage points from May respectively, whereas the share of Adults’ Clothing Retailers (76%) dropped by 14 percentage points. The Business Performance Index (BPI) values that reflect the trend of year-on-year changes in receipts of restaurants & similar establishments (63.6) and retail trade (83.6) were both higher than 50, implying that the business of these two industries in June fared better compared to the same month last year.
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