From flash mobs to a murder mystery tour, speed-dating to paper theatre, Macau City Fringe Festival will take place next month.
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American film Give Me Liberty won Best Film in the International Competition category at the 4th International Film Festival Awards – Macau (IFFAM), topping nine other films. As for the New Chinese Cinema category, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains was awarded Best Film.
Residents were keen to try out their free-of-charge LRT rides on the Taipa section of the long-delayed Light Rail Transit when it finally started operating Tuesday afternoon.
Zhang Yaqin, president of Beijing-based internet giant Baidu, will be giving a lecture on “Advances in Autonomous Driving” on Monday at the University of Macau.
Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, Alexis Tam Chon Weng, will be the new head of the Macau Economic and Commercial Delegation in Portugal headquartered in Lisbon.
Ho Iat Seng: Since its return to the motherland 20 years ago, Macau has made great strides in economic development and achieved prosperity and stability.
Macau plays an important role in Sino-Portuguese bilateral relations, and it has achieved remarkable development in various fields over the past 20 years, said Paulo Cunha Alves, consul general of Portugal in the Macau Special Administrative Region.
The Taipa section of the long-delayed Light Rail Transit will finally start its service.
The local government will officially adopt the “lucky” ox that managed to escape from the abattoir in Ilha Verde.
Since returning to China in 1999, Macau has undergone its fastest growth period ever, Fu Ziyang director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in Macau said in a recent interview quoted on Monday by China Daily.
The “2019 Macao International Parade”, organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, was held on Sunday to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Macao’s handover to China.
The chairman of American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong Robert Grieves and president Tara Joseph were separately prevented from entering Macau on Saturday.