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Public holidays in Macau are dates assigned by the Government of Macau allowing the public administration staff to rest instead of working. The current rest days of the Macau government are Saturdays and Sundays; while public holidays basically include traditional Chinese holidays , western and Catholic festivals as well as Macanese local ...
21 August: Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng announces that he would not seek another term in office in elections scheduled for October, citing ill health. [1]13 October: Sam Hou Fai, the former president of the Court of Final Appeal of Macau, is elected as the new Chief Executive of Macau, the first to have been born in mainland China.
The name Macau came to be when many centuries later, when Portuguese soldiers asked for the name of the place, the locals replied "A-Ma-Gao" (Bay of A-Ma). It was eventually shortened to Macau. In recent times, a statue of A-Ma was erected on the highest point of Coloane Island. During the A-Ma Festival, offerings are made.
Hundreds of thousands of visitors have flocked to the Chinese-controlled regions of Macau and Hong Kong since Sept. 29, data shows as China wraps up its Golden Week holiday, although the figures ...
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31 May - Dragon Boat Festival; 1–2 October – National Day; 7 October – Mid-Autumn Festival; 29 October – Double Ninth Festival; 2 November – All Souls' Day; 8 December – Immaculate Conception; 20 December – Macau S.A.R. Establishment Day; 21 December – Winter Solstice Festival; 24 December – Christmas Eve; 25 December ...
The festival was long marked as a cultural festival in China and is a public holiday in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. The People's Republic of China's government established in 1949 did not initially recognize the Dragon Boat Festival as a public holiday but reintroduced it in 2008 alongside two other festivals in a bid to boost ...
This is a timeline of History of Macau. Each article deals with events in Macau in a given year. ... This page was last edited on 9 February 2024, at 21:16 (UTC).