Events from the year 2006 in

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a pop ...

, China.

Incumbents

Chief Executive A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especial ...

Edmund Ho Edmund Ho Hau-wah, GOIH, GML, GCM (born 13 March 1955) is a Macau politician who served as the first Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region from 1999 to 2009. He currently serves as a Vice-Chairman of the Chinese Peop ...

* President of the Legislative Assembly -

Susana Chou Susana Chou Vaz da Luz (born 2 December 1941), also known as Chou Kei-jan and Cao Qizhen, is a Macau politician who served as the President of the Legislative Assembly of Macau from 1999 to 2009. Biography Chou's ancestral hometown is the cur ...

Events

January

* 23 January - Macau became the world's largest gambling center, surpassing

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in the

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March

* 1 March - The opening of Communications Museum in Nossa Senhora de Fátima.

May

* 7 May - The opening of

Museum of Taipa and Coloane History The Museum of Taipa and Coloane History (; pt, Museu da História da Taipa e Coloane) is a museum in Taipa, Macau, China. History The museum building used to be a public administration building named Island Municipal Council Building. It use ...

Taipa Taipa ( zh, t=氹仔, ; pt, Taipa, ) was a former island in Macau, presently united with the island of Coloane by reclaimed land known as Cotai. Administratively, the boundaries of the traditional civil parish Freguesia de Nossa Senhora do ...

June

* 3 June - 2006 Hong Kong–Macau Interport at Macau University of Science and Technology Sports Field.

July

* 19–23 July -

2006 Macau Open Badminton Championships The 2006 Macau Open Badminton Championships was the first edition of the Macau Open Badminton Championships. It was held in the Tap Seac Multi-sports Pavilion from July 19 to July 23, 2006, and the prize money was US$120,000. Medalists Reference ...

Tap Seac Multi-sports Pavilion The Tap Seac Multi-sports Pavilion (; pt, Pavilhão Polidesportivo Tap Seac) is an indoor sporting arena located in São Lázaro, Macau, China. The land on which the Tap Seac Multi-sport Pavilion sits at present belongs to the Ho-Tung Primary S ...

September

* 6 September - The opening of

Wynn Macau Wynn Macau () is a luxury hotel and casino resort in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China with two towers containing a total of 1,008 rooms and suites, approximately of casino space, over of retail space, ...

in Sé.

October

* 7–15 October -

2006 Lusophony Games The 1st Lusophone Games ( pt, 1.os Jogos da Lusofonia; ) were held in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China between 7 and 15 October 2006. The 2006 Games were the first edition of this multi-sport event for Po ...

at Macau Stadium.

December

* 31 December - The official opening of Macau Fisherman's Wharf in Sé.

References

{{Asia topic, 2006 in Years of the 21st century in Macau

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