This year’s International Film Festival & Awards • Macao (IFFAM) will be taking place digitally from 3-8 December where all 31 movies will be streamed online, a statement from the event’s organiser said on Tuesday.
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A female university student from the mainland was cheated out of 180,000 yuan (MOP 217,000) in a phone scam, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Chan Wun Man said during a regular press conference on Monday.
An exhibition entitled “Selected Works 2020” by graduates of the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) Faculty of Arts and Humanities’ Department of Creative Industries is being held at Creative Macau – Centre for Creative Industries.
For the first time since it started five years ago, the International Film Festival and Awards ‧ Macao (IFFAM) will be held entirely online, running from 3 to 8 December.
Macao Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng said today the government would further strengthen “top-down design” regarding innovation in the field of science and technology (sci-tech).
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday sent a congratulatory letter to the opening of the first conference of the International Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation (ISTIF) of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA).
Certain foreigners – non-resident workers, spouses or offspring of a Macao resident, or those who've been admitted to local tertiary institutions – can now apply for exemptions from Macao’s months-long ban on foreign nationals entering Macao, provided they enter the city from mainland China.
The Social Welfare Bureau (IAS) will relax the arrangements for family members to visit their loved in the city’s elderly care homes from tomorrow, after consulting opinions from the Health Bureau (SSM).
The 8th Macao International Travel (Industry) Expo (MITE), which ended on Sunday, attracted 22,921 attendees.
The Guangdong Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), with a well-established 5G industry chain, could well grow into the world's leading smart city cluster.
The Judicial Council, which oversees the management and discipline of judges, public prosecutors and judicial support staff, on Monday accused the president of the Macau Lawyers Association (AAM), Jorge Neto Valente, of harming the image of the Court of Final Appeal (TUI), its president Sam Hou Fai and all the personnel of the Judiciary.
Officials including Edmund Ho Hau Wah, vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) Director Maria Helena de Senna Fernandes attended the Four-Faced Buddha’s holy birthday on Monday in Taipa.