The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) announced that after a careful evaluation and comprehensive consideration decided to cancel the 2020 Macao International Parade scheduled for December.
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The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement that it will carry out maintenance work at the Treasure of Sacred Art of St Joseph’s Seminary from today.
United Association of Food and Beverages Chairman Andrew Chan Chak Mo told reporters on Tuesday that due to the novel coronavirus pandemic the number of booths at this year’s Macao Food Festival will be reduced to around 100 to 110 from previous years’ 150 to 160.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 9th Macau Literary Festival will be shorter than previous ones, the organisers announced on Tuesday.
The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) said in a statement on Monday that it has launched an online bookshop to facilitate the selecting and purchasing of its publications by readers from Macao and abroad via the Internet, aiming to promote reading among the public.
A paper on the use of social media for Buddhist rituals for Bhutanese families, co-authored by Associate Professor Todd Sandel in the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Macau (UM), and his PhD student Dorji Wangchuk, will be published in the November issue of Language & Communication, one of the top journals in the fields of communication and linguistics, the public university said in a statement on Monday.
Secretary for Administration and Justice André Cheng Weng Chon has reaffirmed that Macao’s political system does not include the Western concept of separation of powers. Instead, its executive authorities, the legislature and the judiciary complement each other and exercise checks and balances of each other, but with the emphasis on a cooperative relationship between the three organs.
The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) announced on Thursday that the new Macao Central Library will be built on the plot of the former Hotel Estoril by Praça do Tap Seac.
During the Thursday press conference, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) also introduced its Black Box Theatre project, the revitalisation and partial opening of the former Iec Long Firecracker Factory in Taipa and the Lai Chi Vun shipyards in Coloane.