When the Portuguese handed Macau back to China in December 1999, there was less fanfare then when Hong Kong went through the same process two years previously. But taking a walk around the ...

It was widely used to generically describe coins used throughout Portuguese colonies. When it was first issued for circulation in Macau in the late 1800s, there was no single currency used in Macau.

Ho Iat Seng, Macau’s chief executive and leader, had only warm words with which to describe relations between the semi-autonomous Chinese city and Portugal, its former colonial ruler ...

Tiny Macau, a special administrative region of China, has seen its low-key colonial character give way to massive commercial and tourist development. The former Portuguese colony, a near neighbour ...

MACAU (Reuters) - Nearly 20 years have passed since Portugal handed Macau over to China, and although colonial culture still infuses parts of daily life, the influence of the territory's ...

Still, the former Portuguese colony in southern China doesn’t have the glam image of other gambling capitals. To compensate for its somewhat dowdy reputation, Macau has responded in recent years ...

The former Portuguese colony, a near neighbour of Hong Kong, occupies a small peninsula and two islands off China's southern coast. Its economy revolves around tourism. Macau has capitalised on ...