Argentinean director Emiliano Torres’s Spanish-language “The Winter” won the best film award at the 1st International Film Festival & Awards • Macao (IFFAM) on Tuesday.
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The government announced last night that all sales of live poultry in the city will be temporarily stopped with immediate effect after discovering the H7 strain of the avian influenza virus (AIV) in silkie chicken samples at the Nam Yue Supply Market on Tuesday afternoon.
According to the findings of a survey conducted by the Macau Management Association (MMA) which were released at a press conference on Monday, 60.8 per cent of the respondents have been in their current job for less than three years.
Urging the public to pay more attention to dementia, the private Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau (KWNC) announced yesterday that it will provide free cognitive tests to detect the disease in the elderly.
The charity event “Walk for a Million” was held in Nape this Sunday with 40,000 residents taking part in the march.
Former ex-chief prosecutor Ho Chio Meng insists that the accusations against him are “unfactual”. Ho made the remarks on the first day of his trial by the Court of Final Appeal (TUI) on Friday.
Aiming to stabilise Macau’s financial system and cash flow, the government has set the limit per ATM withdrawal with bank cards issued in the mainland at 5,000 patacas or HK$5,000, Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tac said on Sunday.
The Gross Domestic Product of Macau (GDP) is expected to return to growth in 2017, the year in which the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) expects a rate of 5.2 per cent, which will rise one-tenth of a percentage point to 5.3 per cent in 2018 according to the latest report on the territory.
French drama ‘Polina’ about a young woman’s journey to the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow opened the 1st International Film Festival & Awards • Macau (IFFAM) at the Macau Cultural Centre Tuesday.