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Macau Everbright Publishing, Editing & Consultancy Company Limited. The Macau Post Daily ( Chinese: 澳門郵報) (sometimes abbreviated to MPD) was launched on August 27, 2004, and is Macau 's oldest and highest paid-circulation English-language daily newspaper . The Macau Post Daily is a compact newspaper, i.e., a broadsheet-quality newspaper ...
The Macao Post was founded on 1, March 1884 (separate from Correio Público—Public Post Office of Portugal), as a separate entity from China Post and a sub-member of the Universal Postal Union. Prior to the handover of Macau from Portugal to China in 1999, Macau postage stamps bore the Portuguese words REPÚBLICA PORTUGUESA (i.e., the ...
Macau participated in the Empire issue of 1938, with 17 values. In 1948, a new definitive series consisted of 12 values with different pictorial designs depicting local scenery. Subsequent issues included many of the common design types issued for all the Portuguese territories, with some commemoratives for anniversaries in Macau. Macau's 1976 ...
Edificio Sede dos CTT. Macau General Post Office Building in c.1950. The Macau General Post Office ( Chinese: 澳門郵政局大樓; Portuguese: Edificio Sede dos CTT) is a 3-storey building at the intersection of Senado Square and Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro in Sé, Macau, China. The current building was built in 1929. [1] [2] [3]
Qing dynasty. Although postal service in China goes back some 2,500 years, modern postal services were not established until 1877 by the Qing government. This 1-candareen stamp of 1885 has an unidentified seal cancellation and a postmark from the French post office in Shanghai. A 1/2-cent value of the 1897 issue, lithographed in Japan.
Macau (officially the Province of Macau from 1897 to 1976 and later the Autonomous Region [citation needed] of Macau from 1976 to 1999) was a Portuguese colony from the establishment of the first official Portuguese settlement of Macau in 1557 to its handover to China in 1999. It comprised the Municipality of Macau and the Municipality of Ilhas ...
Macau is a special administrative region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China. It was leased to Portugal in 1557 as a trading post in exchange for a symbolic annual rent of 500 tael. Despite remaining under Chinese sovereignty and authority, the Portuguese came to consider and administer Macau as a de facto colony.
The Port of Macau is divided into four areas: The Interior Port (內港 - Porto Interior): Fairway is 45-55m wide and 3.5m deep. It includes the Inner Harbor Ferry Terminal. The Exterior Port (外港 - Porto Exterior): It contains the old Fishing Wharf and the Macau Ferry Terminal. Fairway is 120m wide and 4.5m deep [1]