Sources: AP via Fox News
Sam Hou Fai is sworn in as Chief Executive of Macau, succeeding Ho Iat Seng. 2024-12-20
Macau closes all of its casinos in order to contain an outbreak of COVID-19 in the city. 2022-07-11
Authorities in Macau place a casino and hotel with more than 700 people inside under lockdown due to an outbreak of COVID-19 in the territory. 2022-06-21
Singapore begins reopening its borders with the launch of Vaccinated Travel Lanes for fully vaccinated travellers from Germany and Brunei, while quarantine-free restrictions will be eased for travellers from Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China outside of Jiangsu Province, New Zealand and Taiwan. 2021-08-19
Two people β one Japanese and one American β die from coronavirus in Wuhan. They are the first foreigners (excluding Hong Kong and Macau) to die from it. 2020-02-8
Tens of thousands of people gather in Hong Kong to mark the 30th anniversary of the crackdown on protests in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Hong Kong is one of the two places in China where people can openly commemorate the event, the other being Macau, to a lesser extent; elsewhere in China, the authorities have banned and blocked any reference to the crackdown. 2019-06-4
Notorious Macau gangster Broken Tooth Koi is released from prison after serving nearly 15 years. 2012-12-1
Macau tycoon Stanley Ho is to sue relatives accused of trying to steal his vast casino empire. 2011-01-27
800 gambling dens are raided in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and China, (including Hong Kong and Macau) and 5,000 people arrested for illegal betting on the 2010 FIFA World Cup. 2010-07-16