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Health quarantine requirements and measures for inbound travellers of different identities.
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Matters of Attention about the New Academic Year (Academic year 2021/2022 )
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The Monetary Authority of Macao announced today that the preliminary estimate of Macao SAR’s foreign exchange reserves amounted to MOP209.9 billion (USD26.22 billion) at the end of July 2021. The reserves increased by 0.1% from the revised value of MOP209.8 billion (USD26.23 billion) for the previous month. Macao SAR’s foreign exchange reserves at end-July 2021 represented 11 times the currency in circulation or 86.2% of pataca M2 at end-June 2021.
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Macao Polytechnic Institute (MPI) has recently published the first issue of Global Gaming & Tourism Research (Serial No.3) of 2021. This current issue of the Journal covers academic papers on gaming and tourism with contributing authors from the United Kingdom, Mainland China and Macao. The journal aims to promote the sustainable development of the gaming and tourism industry and to provide support for science-based decision-making across the government and gaming sectors. This academic journal seeks to serve as an exchange platform for gaming and tourism research work.
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In response to the enquiry about a staff member of the University of Macau sharing a common track with the confirmed patient, the university would like to respond as follows:
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Members of the public notified the Judiciary Police in relation to an unknown telephone call allegedly from the Health Bureau, with pre-recorded messages in both Cantonese and Putonghua, claiming that the caller has not yet collected important documents from the Bureau.
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The 15-day data collection for the 2021 Population Census has entered its sixth day today (12 Aug). In line with the pandemic prevention and control measures of the SAR Government, the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) has spared no efforts to promote online Census response. Until now, over 57,000 households have completed the online questionnaire, which accounted for 27.5% of the total. Starting tomorrow (13 Aug), DSEC will set up 12 questionnaire collection points to facilitate submission of paper questionnaires, and send SMS reminders to all residents in Macao to encourage Census completion.
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According to statistics released today by the Monetary Authority of Macao, newly approved small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) credit rebounded in the first half of 2021. In the meantime, the outstanding balance of SME loans rose while the share of SME loans to major industries remained stable.
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The Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre (hereinafter referred to as “the Centre”) indicates that, in view of the severity of the global epidemic situation, Macao cannot afford to drop its guard, and vaccination against COVID-19 is an important means to combat the epidemic effectively. For this, to facilitate vaccination among members of the public, the 18 vaccination points across the territory now offer more than 10,000 inoculation quotas daily, with adequate quotas for on-site registration. Today (11 August), the Centre has sent the following text message to the entire population:
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In the last two years alone, a number of IFTM students have focused their final year capstone research project on investigating different aspects of the cultural and creative industries. Many of which have been presented in the annual Tourism Education Student Summit event (TEd Summit) and subsequently published within the respective e-Proceedings (ISSN 2518-4784, 2020 & 2021). The studies they conducted ranged in scope from entertainment such as film and pop culture to art as a decorative aesthetic.
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