Brazilian linguist delivers 5 lectures at MPU

The public Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) said in a statement yesterday that linguistics professor Adriana Pagano from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Brazil recently delivered five lectures on “Corpus and Translation” and “Cognitive Approach to Translation Studies”.Invited by MPU’s Faculty of Languages and Translation (FLT), the statement noted that Prof. Pagano is the chief researcher at the LETRA Translation Laboratory at UFMG and is recognised for her

March 6, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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Think tank urges govt to adjust bus routes, set up transport hub at Chun Su Mei

Local think tank Macau Synergy Association held a press conference yesterday at its office regarding circuity and the overlapping of bus routes, as well as traffic jams caused by too many bus routes stopping at the same bus stops at the same time, crowded buses on some routes and insufficient waiting space, urging the government to streamline the routes by categorising them into five types, such as express routes,  trunk routes and short routes, while also setting up a three-tiered busing

March 6, 2024 | BY Yuki Lei

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DSAL to provide career matching for 1,500 IR jobs this month

The Labour Affairs Bureau (DSAL) said in a statement yesterday that it will be providing at least six career matching activities for jobseekers, with a total of 1,500 jobs on offer by the city’s six integrated resort (IR) operators.The statement pointed out that due to the gradual recovery of the local tourism industry, more IR facilities have been put into use. Consequently, the bureau will continue to host career matching activities to “relieve the IR operators’ human resources

March 6, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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NPC opens annual session

BEIJING – The 14th National People’s Congress (NPC), the national legislature, opened its second session yesterday at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.Xi Jinping, Li Qiang, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi and Han Zheng were present at the opening meeting, which was attended by nearly 3,000 NPC deputies.Zhao Leji, executive chairman of the session’s presidium, presided over the meeting.Premier Li Qiang delivered a government work report at the meeting.In the face of an

March 6, 2024 | BY admin

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Central SOEs to focus on strategic emerging industries, future industries: official

BEIJING – In an effort to promote industrial upgrading, China’s centrally-administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) should put strategic emerging industries and future-oriented industries in a prominent position, an official with the country’s top state-asset regulator said yesterday.Investment by central SOEs in strategic emerging industries increased 32.1 percent year on year in 2023, Zhang Yuzhuo, chairman of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) of

March 6, 2024 | BY admin

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Chief drafter expounds on govt work report

BEIJING – Huang Shouhong, head of the group for drafting the Chinese government work report this year, yesterday elaborated on the key points of the document and unveiled the process of its formulation.The report, which was delivered by Premier Li Qiang at the annual session of the National People’s Congress (NPC) earlier in the day, lays out major targets and tasks of the government for 2024.Huang, director of the Research Office of the State Council, explained why the central government

March 6, 2024 | BY admin

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Li unveils 2024 growth targets with focus on high-quality development

BEIJING – The central goernment seeks to achieve a GDP growth rate of around 5 percent for 2024, the latest signal that the world’s second-largest economy is committed to high-quality development despite uncertainties at home and abroad.The projected goal, which remains unchanged from the previous year’s growth target, is one of the key development objectives unveiled in the government work report delivered by Premier Li Qiang to the National People’s Congress (NPC), which began its

March 6, 2024 | BY admin

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Highlights of central govt work report

BEIJING – The following are the highlights of the central government work report submitted by Premier Li Qiang to the National People’s Congress (NPC) for deliberation:– China targets economic growth of around 5 percent in 2024– China pledges proactive fiscal policy, prudent monetary policy in 2024– China aims to create over 12 million urban jobs in 2024– China sets deficit-to-GDP ratio of 3 percent for 2024– China to issue ultra-long special treasury bonds in years to come–

March 6, 2024 | BY admin

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Lawmakers deliberate draft revision to Organic Law of the State Council

BEIJING – The nation’s lawmakers yesterday started deliberating a draft revision to the Organic Law of the State Council.It marks the first revision of the law, which was adopted in December 1982 when the country’s current Constitution was formulated.The law has played a significant role in ensuring that the State Council performs its duties in accordance with the Constitution and other laws, said Li Hongzhong, vice chairman of the National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee,

March 6, 2024 | BY admin

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Health Bureau urges those without measles immunity to get vaccinated

The Macau Health Bureau (SSM) is urging all those who have no immunity against measles to get vaccinated considering that local measles cases have recently been detected in Hong Kong and Taiwan and that some countries in the Western Pacific Region are currently affected by a relatively high incidence rate of the disease.The Western Pacific Region is one of the six regions of the World Health Organisation (WHO), comprising 37 countries and regions. China, Hong Kong SAR (China), and Macao SAR

March 5, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Macau logs this year’s 2nd whooping cough case

Macau recorded a case of pertussis, aka whooping cough, yesterday, this year’s second one, the Health Bureau (SSM) announced in a statement last night.Pertussis cases are rare in Macau.According to the statement, the patient is a one-year-old local girl who normally lives in the mainland. She came down with a cough on February 19, because of which she was then taken to a hospital in the mainland for treatment.As her cough persisted, the statement said, the girl was taken to the public Conde

March 5, 2024 | BY Tony Wong

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Lawmaker suggests moving open-air arts & crafts activities to ‘Macau Egg’

Lawmaker Leong Sun Iok has submitted a written interpellation suggesting that the government should consider moving open-air arts, cultural, recreation and sporting activities to the Macau East Asian Games Dome, colloquially known as Macau Egg, in Cotai.Leong, a vice-president of the Macau Federation of Trade Unions, commonly known as Gung Luen, made the suggestion in a written interpellation submitted to the Legislative Assembly last month. The interpellation was released to the media

March 5, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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Lawmaker voices concern about raising Inner Harbour wharfage charges

The government raised its wharfage charges in the Inner Harbour in January, which increased it more than 30 times, and Lawmaker Ron Lam U Tou expressed concern in a written interpellation released on Sunday that the sudden and drastic increase had caused a significant increase in the operating costs for the shipping and logistics sector there and might affect the prices of goods in the city.In January, the government promulgated a regulation in the Official Gazette (BO) stipulating an annual

March 5, 2024 | BY Ginnie Liang

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UM, Sinopharm ink cooperation deal

A strategic cooperation agreement on health was signed by the University of Macau (UM) and China National Pharmaceutical Group Co. Ltd. (Sinopharm) on February 26, when a delegation from the state-owned enterprise visited UM, according to a statement from the public university yesterday.The statement noted that in line with the agreement, both parties, based on the principles of complementarity and common development, will engage in in-depth cooperation in aspects such as establishing joint

March 5, 2024 | BY Rui Pastorin

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