Snapshots of daily life as city tackles COVID-19

Registration is now open for the MPU-Bell Centre of English’s training courses for the fourth quarter, according to a statement yesterday from the Macao Polytechnic University (MPU).The statement noted that a series of English learning courses will be launched for the autumn and winter, including IELTS (International English Language Testing System), General English and Teacher Training courses.The IELTS training courses will provide lessons at intermediate level and two types of targeted

Hundreds of unemployed residents – most of them construction workers – urging the government for help to find a job first gathered outside the Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) in Areia Preta district on Friday but later occupied the road in front of the DSAL headquarters to show their dissatisfaction with the government’s perceived failure to solve their unemployment predicament.During the protest, some of the workers scuffled with police, and several of them were subdued by police officers