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<\/p>\nThe Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) has issued the 43rd edition of its \u201cBooks and the City\u201d newsletter, this time taking on the theme \u201cJoyful Reading Community\u201d.<\/p>\n
There are again 3,000 free copies available at IC\u2019s libraries, along with several bookshops and other art facilities, while one can also read the trilingual newsletter online.<\/p>\n
Among this issues\u2019 highlights are reflecting on the \u201cMobile Library\u201d outreach service, along with other services provided by the Public Library such as its \u201c10-Minute Reading\u201d initiative that took books to public settings from hospitals to sports venues to encourage reading. It also highlights the \u201cBook Delivery Service\u201d.<\/p>\n
This edition\u2019s \u201cLibrary Handbook\u201d section meanwhile reviews the \u201cMacao Just Read \u00b7 National Reading Campaign Week 2026\u201d in April, along with venue reservation information, while the \u201cMagnifying Glass\u201d looks at the newly added electronic resources and themed book exhibitions to be held in the second half of the year.<\/p>\n
One will also get a glimpse of life in Macau according to Macanese* writer Henrique de Senna Fernandes\u2019 (1923-2010) 1998 work \u201cMong-H\u00e1\u201d, as introduced by the book\u2019s translator Iok Lan Fu Barreto.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, trilingual book reviews, along with new book and magazine recommendations, are featured in the \u201cNew Launch\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n
* Customarily, the term \u201cMacanese\u201d refers to Macau\u2019s community of mixed Portuguese and Asian descent, as well as their diaspora, accounting for \u00a0 about 2.0 percent of the population. \u2013 MPD<\/p>\n
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Children read books in front of the Mobile Library while it was parked at the Macao Science Centre (MSC). \u2013 Photo provided yesterday by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC) has issued the 43rd edition of its \u201cBooks and the City\u201d newsletter, this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[116144,116143,128,130,129,116142],"class_list":["post-277150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-macau-post-daily","tag-postdaily","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-the-macau-post-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}