Transport in Macau includes road,sea,rail and air transport. Road transport is the primary mode of transport within Macau,although a new rail system opened in December 2019 serving the areas of Taipa and Cotai. The main forms of public transport are buses and taxis.
Macau International Airport is an international airport in the special administrative region of Macau,situated at the eastern end of Taipa island and neighbouring waters. It opened for commercial operations on 9 November 1995,during Portuguese administration of the region.
Taipa is an area in Macau,connected to Coloane through the area known as Cotai,which is largely built from reclaimed land. Located on the northern half of the island,Taipa’s population is mostly suburban. Administratively,the boundaries of the traditional civil parish Freguesia de Nossa Senhora do Carmo are mostly coterminous with that of the former Taipa Island,except for a portion of the parish that lies on the island of Hengqin (Montanha),housing the campus of the University of Macau.
Macau is an autonomous territory within China. A Portuguese colony until 1999,Macau has a diverse culture firmly rooted in Cantonese culture,with a mix of influences from East Asia and Western Europe. Macau is known for being the largest gambling center in the world.
Air Macau Company Limited is the flag carrier of Macau. It operates services to 24 destinations in Mainland China,Indonesia,Japan,Singapore,South Korea,Taiwan,Thailand and Vietnam,from the airline's home base at Macau International Airport. In 2014,Air Macau carried 2.12 million passengers with an average load factor of 68.20% and carried 15,900 tonnes of cargo and mail.
The Catholic Church in Macau is part of the worldwide Catholic Church,under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. The history of Catholic church in Macau can traced back to 1576 under the leadership of the Pope. Catholic church in Macau was built not only with the purpose of prayers and atonement but also as rally point for Portuguese to gather up and act as a midway for missionaries going to deeper part of China and south east Asia. The Catholic church within Macau has played an important role on the spread of Catholicism in Japan,Vietnam and China and other parts of south east Asia. The Catholic church in Macau has provided schooling,missionary training and preaching the gospel to the local catholic and non-catholic communities. There are around 30,000 Catholics in Macau,which forms a single diocese,the Diocese of Macau. The current bishop of Macau is Stephen Lee Bun-sang.
The Macau Light Rapid Transit is a mass transit system in Macau and is also the first railway system in Macau. The first phase of the project started construction in February 2012,and the first section of the Taipa line was opened to the public on 10 December 2019,followed by the Barra Station Extend Line on 8 December 2023. MTR (Macau),a wholly-owned subsidiary of MTR,was operating and maintaining the MLRT under the operations and maintenance assistance services,until it expires in December 2024. Macao Light Rapid Transit Corporation,Limited (MLM) is directly responsible for the operations and maintenance assistance services of the MLRT from 1 April 2024.
Macau Post and Telecommunications,most commonly known as CTT,is an entity under the Government of Macao responsible for postal services and telecommunications regulation.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Macau:
The Londoner Macao is a casino and resort on the Cotai Strip,in Macau. On August 5th,2011,Sands China announced that the $4 billion property,long referred to as parcels five and six,would be officially named Sands Cotai Central. The first portion of the resort opened on April11th,2012. The resort was rebranded as The Londoner Macao in 2021. The resort's redesign was completed in May 2023.
Luis Ruiz Suárez S.J. was a Spanish-born Jesuit priest and missionary to China. Father Ruiz founded Casa Ricci Social Services,and later the Caritas Macau charity. His work in the 1950s focused mainly on refugees from mainland China. As Casa Ricci's works developed,it spawned Caritas Macau and Ruiz turned the focus of Casa Ricci to work with lepers and their families,and still later to those suffering from HIV/AIDS. He came to be known by several nicknames –"Luk Ngai","Father of the Poor",and "Angel of Macau."
The City University of Macau (CityU) is a private university in Taipa,Macau,China.
Macau Catholic Schools Association was established by the Bishop of Macau Paulo JoséTavares during the 1960s.
The Parisian Macao is a casino resort on the Cotai Strip in Cotai,Macau,China owned by Las Vegas Sands,which features a half-scale Eiffel Tower as one of its landmarks. It was originally expected to be operational in late 2015,with that later changed to August 2016. The hotel officially opened on 13 September 2016.
The International School of Macao,is an international school in Taipa,Macao next to the Macau International Airport. It occupies blocks K and Q of the Macau University of Science and Technology. It is accredited by Alberta,Canada.
Colégio Mateus Ricci is a Roman Catholic kindergarten/preschool through secondary school in Macau and a member of the Macau Catholic Schools Association. It was named after Matteo Ricci and established in 1955. Caritas Macau established the school.
The Macau Red Cross is a branch of the Red Cross in Macau. The headquarters is in the China Civil Plaza (中土大廈) in Sé. It also has a Medical Transfer Centre (醫療輔助服務中心) in the Edificio Industrial Hap Si (合時工業大廈) in Areia Preta,Nossa Senhora de Fátima.
The East line is a planned line of the Macau Light Rapid Transit. Unlike Macau's existing LRT line,which runs on an elevated guideway,the East line is planned to run entirely underground,constructed with a tunnel-boring machine. The line will from the terminus of the Taipa line at Taipa Ferry Terminal,and traverse Zone E of the Macau New Urban Zone,stopping in the centre of the zone. It will then cross under the Praia Grande to the southern end of New Urban Zone A. The track will run under the central greenway of zone A,stopping at 3 stations there. Finally,it will run underwater,along the coast of the Macau peninsula,stopping at stations at Areia Preta and Portas do Cerco. The line will be 7.8 km long.
Catholic religious institutions,associations,and communities in Macau operate in the territory of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR),which is currently under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Diocese of Macau,founded on 23 January 1576. Besides its diocesan priests,this Catholic diocese is assisted by various male and female religious orders,congregations,and institutes. The diocese is also supported by various institutions,movements,brotherhoods,and associations of Catholic inspiration made up of lay and religious people. All these Catholic bodies provide a variety of religious,social,educational,welfare,and cultural services to the Catholic and non-Catholic populations of Macau.
