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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.
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 ...
1 January – New Year's Day; 29 February – Chinese New Year's Eve; 30–31 January – Chinese New Year; 4 April - Qingming Festival; 18 April - Good Friday; 19 April - Holy Saturday; 1 May - International Workers' Day; 5 May - Buddha's Birthday; 31 May - Dragon Boat Festival; 1–2 October – National Day; 7 October – Mid-Autumn Festival
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See here for the type of material that are in the Public domain in Chinese and Portuguese (official languages of Macau), plus English (not an official language of Macau). Flag of Macau English ∙ español ∙ 日本語 ∙ 한국어 ∙ македонски ∙ português ∙ português do Brasil ∙ ไทย ∙ 中文（简体） ∙ ...
A tricolour of red-white-red; the middle band has a depiction of St. Paul's Cathedral in Macau. Proposal 3: A triband with a stylised "M" standing for Macau; a large star above four smaller stars representative of China. Proposal 4: A vertical bicolour of green and red, resembling the Flag of Portugal, with a stylised lotus flower in the lower fly.
The coat of arms used by Portugal followed traditional European styles: . The first coat of arms used in Macau was used until the end of the 19th century. It features the arms of Portugal surrounded by the saying Cidade do nome de Deus, não há outra mais Leal (Portuguese for "City of the Name of God, there is none more Loyal").
Macau is located at the bottom-right of the region. Map of Macau. Macau is located on China's southern coast, 60 km (37 mi) west of Hong Kong, on the western side of the Pearl River estuary. It is surrounded by the South China Sea in the east and south, and neighbours the Guangdong city of Zhuhai to the west and north. [102]