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New Voices: Macau in the Canto-pop World
Small as it is, Macau keeps sending singers and songwriters into the Hong Kong, Taiwan and wider Chinese-language pop world. This series gathers musicians who set out from Macau: singer-songwriters [Nick Ngai](person:nick-ngai) and [Rico Long](person:rico-long); singing-contest voices [Vivian Chan](person:vivian-chan) and [Josie Ho Ka Weng](person:josie-ho-ka-weng); the duo [KAVH](person:kavh) and twin-brother band [Soler](person:soler); and drummers-turned-artists [Jason Loi](person:jason-loi) and [Jun Kung](person:jun-kung).
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The Macau Online Media Generation
Beyond the casinos and the civil service, a generation of young Macau people built their own stage with a phone and a short video. This series gathers the faces of Macau's online-content generation: the three founders of [Manner (微辣文化)](person:luk-chi-hou) — [Luk Chi Hou ("Sixtycents")](person:luk-chi-hou), [Lei Wai Lon](person:lei-wai-lon) and [Nathan Lam](person:nathan-lam); Manner artists [Jeffrey Fok](person:jeffrey-fok), [Puinam](person:puinam), [Chan Hong Weng](person:chan-hong-weng) and [Au Yeung Chong Hou](person:au-yeung-chong-hou); and the independent animation creator [Byeian](person:byeian).
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The Macau Grand Prix: Local Racing Heroes
The Guia Circuit is one of the few street tracks in the world that threads through a living city centre, and the Macau Grand Prix has run on it every year since 1954. This series gathers the local and Macanese drivers who wrote Macau into the sport: inaugural winner [Eduardo de Carvalho](person:eduardo-de-carvalho); 2000 Formula 3 victor [André Couto](person:andre-couto); two-time Formula 4 champion [Charles Leong](person:charles-leong); 2022 Formula 4 winner [Andy Chang](person:andy-chang); TCR China champion [Rodolfo Ávila](person:rodolfo-avila); [Filipe de Souza](person:filipe-de-souza), the first local driver to win the Guia Race; and rising star [Tiago Rodrigues](person:tiago-rodrigues).
View series →Macau's Famous Food & Souvenir Houses
Behind the names tourists queue for on Rua do Cunha, by the Ruins of St Paul's and along Holland Garden are self-made founders. This series gathers the people behind Macau's street-food and souvenir houses: the serradura of [Mok Yi Kei](person:mok-yi), the red-bean ice pops of [Lai Kei Ice Cream](person:kwong-lai-keng), the curry beef offal of [Wing Kei](person:kou-kam-chun), the pork chop bun of [Tai Lei Loi Kei](person:kuok-loi-hou), the golden-coin cookies of [Pun Veng Kei](person:pun-veng), the charcoal-roasted almond cookies of [Pastelaria Chui Heong](person:lei-kai-iok) and the curry fishballs of [Hang Yau](person:tai-kuan-in).
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A New Chapter in Macau Sport: National Games & Asian Games Heroes
In November 2025, Macau's karate team won gold in the men's team kata at the 15th National Games — the first-ever National Games gold for Macau's sporting delegation. This series gathers the three kata athletes who made that milestone: [Kuok Kin Hang](person:kuok-kin-hang), [Cheang Pei Lok](person:cheang-pei-lok) and [Fong Man Hou](person:fong-man-hou), along with the team-kata silver they won at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games.
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The Macau Internet Generation: KOLs & Creators
From street-level parody to Chinese-language YouTuber charts — this series gathers the online creator teams that gave Macau some of its most viral cultural energy over the past decade. [Happy Bacalhau](person:happy-bacalhau) carried the city's humour to Chinese-speaking audiences through variety and travel formats, while [PlasticGuys](person:plastic-guys) built up millions of views with cover songs and comedy shorts. Together they represent a group entirely absent from Macau's older rosters of notable names: homegrown self-media creators.
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New Voices of Macau: Contemporary Indie Music
Macau's older music rosters lean toward classic and mainstream artists; this series fills the gap of the active, independent, new generation. It opens with [FIDA](person:fida) — a Mandarin-rock band that set out from Macau and is active in Taiwan's indie scene. More independent musicians will be added as research continues.
View series →City of Gastronomy: Macau's Star Chefs
Macau is a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy. This series gathers the chefs who carried its cooking onto the world stage: [Tam Kwok Fung](person:tam-kwok-fung), whose Chef Tam's Seasons at Wynn Palace holds two Michelin stars and a place on Asia's 50 Best; [Kelvin Au Yeung](person:kelvin-au-yeung), who leads the three-Michelin-star Cantonese institution Jade Dragon at City of Dreams; and the Macanese chef-author [Antonieta Manhão](person:antonieta-manhao), who safeguards endangered Macanese home cooking through recipes and teaching.
View series →Macau's Fashion & Design Forces
Macau's art rosters long held only painters and visual artists, with no place for fashion or graphic designers. This series gathers the creators carrying Macau design abroad: [Lalaismi Wai](person:lalaismi-wai), whose label POURQUOI showed at Paris TRANOÏ; [Tramy Lui](person:tramy-lui), whose studio TICK.DESIGN won an iF Design Award; [Cordova / Kou Sio Long](person:kou-sio-long), whose bespoke menswear brand Cordova won repeated Cultural Affairs Bureau support; and [Leong Man Teng](person:leong-man-teng), whose brand GELÉE fuses fashion with painting.
View series →Voices of Macau
From the 'People's Musician' who wrote the Yellow River Cantata to Hong Kong divas and a rock duo, Macau has produced many kinds of musical voice. This series gathers singers and musicians born in Macau — from Xian Xinghai, Jenny Tseng and Maria Cordero to the singer-songwriter Terence Siufay, the girl-group leader Aka Chio and the rock duo Soler.
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Trailblazing Women of Macau
From the assembly chamber to the medal podium, from letters to business, the women of Macau have written 'firsts' and 'mosts' across many fields. This series gathers Macau women who led the way in public life, culture, sport and business — from Susana Chou, the SAR's first Legislative Assembly president, to the Asian Games gold medallist Li Yi, the diva Jenny Tseng and the Macanese writer Deolinda da Conceição.
View series →Macau to the World: Global Icons
Some names born in Macau reached well beyond the Chinese-speaking world — leaving their mark in Hollywood, K-pop, international film festivals and contemporary art. This series gathers Macau people who became known across the globe: from the Hollywood actress Ming-Na Wen and the K-pop idol Hendery to the Australia-based director Clara Law, the US-based composer Lam Bun-Ching and the Japan-based photographer Season Lao.
View series →Macau on Screen
From a director who reached Cannes to familiar faces in Hong Kong film and TVB drama, screen talents from Macau have carried many a scene. This series gathers Macau people active in film and television — from the director Soi Cheang to the actors Michelle Reis, Isabella Leong, Alex Fong, Vincent Wan and Noel Leung.
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Macau-Born Stars
"Wait, they're from Macau too?" This series gathers the stars and artists born in Macau who went on to shine across Hong Kong and the wider Chinese-speaking world — from the composer Xian Xinghai to the diva Jenny Tseng, award-winning actresses Michelle Reis and Isabella Leong, seasoned actors Alex Fong and Vincent Wan, the beloved "Fat Mama" Maria Cordero, costume-drama queen Noel Leung, and singer-songwriter Terence Siufay. A small city, it turns out, gave rise to many familiar names.
View series →The Jesuits of Macau: Gateway to China and Japan
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Macau was the Jesuit gateway to China and Japan. St. Paul's College was founded here, and missionaries learned Chinese before moving on to the mainland and Japan. This series gathers the figures of the Jesuit mission centred on Macau — from the Visitor Alessandro Valignano to Michele Ruggieri and Matteo Ricci, the first into China; the first bishop Melchior Carneiro; and the Japan interpreter João Rodrigues.
View series →The People Behind Macau's World Heritage
The Historic Centre of Macau is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and behind each monument lies a person's story. This series links the heritage landmarks to the people — from the Jesuits of St Paul's to Robert Morrison and George Chinnery resting in the Protestant Cemetery, and the figures behind the Casa Garden and the Lou Kau Mansion.
View series →Builders of Macau's Universities
A small city's higher education is built by generations of educators and scholars. This series gathers the figures who advanced Macau's universities and academic life — from the University of Macau rectors Yonghua Song, Wei Zhao and Xu Ao'ao to the education pioneers Lau Sin Peng and Leong Pei Wan.
View series →The Names Behind the Streets
The squares and avenues you walk through every day — Ferreira do Amaral, Coronel Mesquita, Infante D. Henrique — are named after real people. This series traces Macau's street names back to their source: governors, soldiers, navigators, and poets, turning each road sign back into a person and a chapter of the Sino-Portuguese encounter.
View series →Macau Sports Legends
On the podiums of the Asian Games and World Championships, Macau's name appears too. This series records the athletes who won historic medals for Macau — from world champions in wushu forms to Asian Games medallists in triathlon, weightlifting and karate — and how a small city with no Olympic seat keeps writing its own name into the record of sport.
View series →Missionaries and Religious Leaders
Macau was once a key gateway for Catholicism's spread into the Far East. This series spans from the sixteenth-century Jesuits Valignano, Ruggieri and Ricci to the modern bishops Lam, Lai and Lee who led the Diocese of Macau — a story of religious and cultural exchange across several centuries.
View series →Principal Officials of the SAR
Below the Chief Executive, the secretaries and principal officials run the day-to-day governance of the SAR. This series records principal officials of the Macau SAR Government — Francis Tam, Cheong U, Alexis Tam, Lei Wai Nong, Raimundo do Rosário and others — alongside the already-profiled O Lam and Cheong Weng Chon, mapping the makeup of the governing team.
View series →The Last Portuguese Governors
Before Macau's 1999 handover, the territory was governed by governors appointed from Lisbon. This series records, in a neutral historical register, several of the Portuguese-era governors around the transition — from Garcia Leandro, Melo Egídio and Almeida e Costa to Rocha Vieira, the last governor who oversaw the handover itself.
View series →Poets & Writers of Macau
From Portuguese epic to Macanese fiction, from early-Qing Catholic verse to today's contemporary Chinese poetry, Macau has nurtured a literary tradition across languages. This series gathers poets and writers with deep Macau roots — from Luís de Camões and Camilo Pessanha to Henrique de Senna Fernandes, the Patuá poet 'Adé', and the contemporary poet Un Sio San.
View series →Philanthropists & Benefactors of Macau
In Macau, wealth has often gone hand in hand with giving back. This series gathers the benefactors who returned to society through charity, education and public welfare — from Ho Yin and Ma Man Kei, who relieved their compatriots after the war, to Lui Che Woo, who founded an international prize, and the healer Ke Lin.
View series →Patriotic Gentry and Philanthropists
Through Macau's social development ran a current of patriotic gentry and philanthropists who gave back to the community and bridged it to the mainland. This series records figures such as Chui Tak Kei and Ke Lin, alongside community leaders like Ho Yin and Ma Man Kei, and their contributions to education, medicine, associations and patriotic causes.
View series →Painters & Visual Artists of Macau
From nineteenth-century Western painters who settled in Macau to contemporary masters who founded 'Neo-Orientalism', Macau has long been a stage for the brush and the visual image. This series gathers painters and visual artists with deep Macau roots — from George Chinnery and Wu Li to Mio Pang Fei, Ung Vai Meng and Carlos Marreiros.
View series →Beyond Gaming: Macau Entrepreneurs
Macau's economy is more than gaming. This series records entrepreneurs who built their standing in finance, real estate, associations and diversified industries — Liu Chak Wan, Au Chong Kit and Ng Fok — showing a side of Macau's business world beyond the casino floor.
View series →Press and Media Figures
Newspapers and media are a city's memory and voice. This series records figures from Macau's press and cultural world — Lei Seng Chon and Ho Man Kong, alongside the journalist-littérateur Lei Pang Chu — tracing the lineage of Macau's news and publishing.
View series →Macau's Firsts
Every 'first' is a step a small city dared to take. This series gathers the people who set 'firsts' in Macau's history — from Edmund Ho, the SAR's first Chief Executive, to Jia Rui, Macau's first Asian Games gold medallist, Domingos Lam, the first ethnic-Chinese Bishop of Macau, and Robert Morrison, the first Protestant missionary to China.
View series →Macau and Modern China
How did one small city touch the grand history of modern China? This series records historical figures whose paths crossed Macau — Lin Zexu inspecting it, Zheng Guanying writing Words of Warning here, Sun Yat-sen practising medicine here, Ye Ting making his home here — and how Macau became a quiet mirror of modern China's upheavals.
View series →The Creative World of the Macanese
The Macanese are a community unique to Macau, giving rise to a distinctive literature and art. This series records Carlos Marreiros, Henrique de Senna Fernandes, Miguel de Senna Fernandes, José dos Santos Ferreira and Deolinda da Conceição — from architecture and the novel to patuá poetry and theatre — a creative world spanning generations.
View series →The Macanese: A People Between Two Worlds
The Macanese are a community unique to Macau — of mixed Chinese-Portuguese blood and culture, rooted in the city for generations. From Assembly president Carlos d'Assumpção and lawyer Leonel Alves, to the historians Luís Gonzaga Gomes and Manuel da Silva Mendes, to the screen stars Michelle Reis and Isabella Leong, this series portrays a people caught between two worlds yet entirely their own.
View series →Voices of the Legislative Assembly
From Susana Chou, the first President of the SAR Legislative Assembly, to the current president Kou Hoi In, and a roster of long-serving legislators — this series gathers the people of Macau's Legislative Assembly, and how a city's will takes shape, is debated, and is enacted inside the chamber.
View series →The Ho Family: A Macau Gaming Dynasty
One family, half the story of Macau gaming. This series focuses on the gambling king Stanley Ho and his family's place across Macau's gaming and business map — from the patriarch who opened the monopoly era to the next generation steering MGM, Melco and Grand Lisboa.
View series →Founders of the Heritage Brands
The almond cakes and wonton noodles you grew up buying each carry a self-made family story. This series records the founders of Macau's heritage souvenir shops — from street hawker to Michelin nod, from a bamboo noodle pole to a Japanese packaging machine — and how a few generations turned flavour into a city's collective memory.
View series →The Macau Handover of 1999
On 20 December 1999, Macau ended over four centuries of Portuguese administration and returned to China as a Special Administrative Region. This series focuses on the key figures around that historic turning point — from Vasco Rocha Vieira, the last Governor, to Edmund Ho, the SAR's first Chief Executive, and Susana Chou, its first Legislative Assembly president.
View series →The Monopoly Era: Macau's Gaming Pioneers
Before the Cotai Strip, Macau's gaming industry was run for nearly a century by a handful of families and operators holding the monopoly concession. From Lou Kau's gambling-tax era, through Fu Tak Iam and Kou Ho Neng's Tai Heng company, to the STDM syndicate of Stanley Ho, Yip Hon, Henry Fok and Teddy Yip — this series returns to the people behind the licence, and how the gaming monopoly shaped a city's fate.
View series →Educators & Scholars
A city's future is often written in classrooms and on campuses. From University of Macau rectors Zhao Wei and Song Yonghua, to MUST's Xu Ao'ao, to the homegrown educators Lau Sin Peng and Leong Pei Wan — this series records Macau's educators and scholars, and how knowledge took root and grew in a small city.
View series →Bridges Between East and West
For over four centuries Macau has been a window where China and the West met. This series gathers the figures who, with Macau as their stage, bridged East and West in culture and ideas — from the Jesuit Matteo Ricci, who carried Western learning into China, to Robert Morrison, who compiled the first Chinese-English dictionary, George Chinnery, who recorded southern China in paint, and Zheng Guanying, who wrote his reformist ideas in Macau.
View series →Chroniclers of Macau: Writers, Painters & Poets
Macau's face has been recorded, generation after generation, by cultural figures wielding brush and pen. From the Qing monk-painter Wu Li and the English painter George Chinnery, to the journalist-writer Lei Pang Chu, to the poets Luís de Camões and Camilo Pessanha who wrote Macau into Portuguese literature — this series gathers those who left the small city a coordinate through their art.
View series →Builders of the Cotai Strip
The Venetian, Wynn, Galaxy — who actually built the resorts you check in at? This series records the people behind the reclaimed-land Cotai Strip: the foreign magnates who crossed oceans to bet on Macau, and the local gaming families rooted here — and how the American integrated-resort model reshaped Macau's skyline and economy within two decades.
View series →Contemporary Macau Creatives
Beyond gaming and tourism, Macau has its own contemporary creators. This series gathers the filmmakers, visual artists and writers active today — from the Cannes-selected director Soi Cheang to the painter Mio Pang Fei who founded "Neo-Orientalism", the artist-administrator Ung Vai Meng, the snow-field photographer Season Lao, and the internationally published poet Un Sio San.
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Chief Executives of Macao
Four Chief Executives, four very different starts. Banker, scholar, legislator, judge — each took office at a turning point, and each left a distinct mark on how Macao moved from the Handover into the Greater Bay Area era.
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