University of Macau opens Chinese-Portuguese training center that includes a language and culture exhibition room, a reception room and a general office.
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The Macau Foundation (FM) has launched a Belt and Road (B&R) scholarship for residents to study for degree courses in a number of countries along the B&R Initiative, the public institution said in a statement on Sunday.
Transport Bureau (DSAT) Director Lam Hin San said on Thursday that the bureau agreed to raise the city’s taxi fares, proposing the flagfall be increased and the distance for incremental charges be shortened.
A railway engineer from the mainland said in Macau it is possible that the national high-speed railway network will ultimately be connected to Macau.
Macau’s number of visitor arrivals rose 11 percent year on year to 2.74 million, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Tuesday.
The government opened its new Civil Protection Operations Centre at the Immigration Department Building in Pac On in Taipa, with the aim of enhancing the security forces’ ability to handle major security incidents and crisis in the city.
The government’s Road Projects Coordination Group failed to coordinate such projects by different government entities or public utilities to ensure that disruptions to the public are kept to a minimum, the Commission of Audit (CA) said in a hard-hitting report on Monday.
The total number of reported scams increased 28.8 percent year on year to 219 in the first quarter, Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak said on Monday, noting a “noticeable rise” in the number of reported phone scams which rose from 9 in the first three months of last year to 22 in the same period this year.
The Social Affairs Bureau (IAS) will publish its first report in September about its findings on domestic violence cases, Daniel Tang Yuk Wa, who heads the bureau’s Family and Community Services Department, said on Sunday.