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The handover of Macau from the Portuguese Republic to the People's Republic of China was at midnight on 20 December 1999. This event ended 442 years of Portuguese rule in the former settlement , which began in 1557.
Chief Executive elections were held in Macau on 15 May 1999 to elect the first Chief Executive (CE), the highest office of the Macau Special Administrative Region, before Macau was due to be handed back to China by Portugal. Edmund Ho was elected as the first leader of the Macau SAR. This was the only contested Chief Executive election to date.
Events from the year 1999 in Macau. Incumbents. Governor : Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira; Chief Executive (People's Republic of China): Edmund Ho; President ...
In May 1999, Edmund Ho, a community leader and banker, was the first PRC-appointed chief executive of the Macau SAR, having replaced General de Rocha Viera on 20 December 1999. He was elected by the 200-member Chief Executive Selection Committee. Ho, born in Macau in 1955, was the first Chinese person to govern the region since the 1550s.
The Time Capsule was closed and covered on 18 December 1999 and it is scheduled to be opened in 2049. [1] Currently, the Time Capsule is located in the Praça do Centro Cultural de Macau, which was the venue for the transference of sovereignty ceremony.
In 1887 the Portuguese finally managed to secure an agreement from China that Macau was Portuguese territory. [1] In 1999 it was handed over to China. Macau was the last extant European territory in continental Asia.
The 1999 Macau Grand Prix Formula Three was the 46th Macau Grand Prix race to be held on the streets of Macau on 21 November 1999. It was the sixteenth edition for Formula Three cars. This was the last Macau Grand Prix held in Portuguese administrated Macau before Macau's sovereignty handed over to the People's Republic of China the following ...
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