The 2010 Macau transfer of sovereignty anniversary protest (2010年澳門回歸示威遊行) occurred on December 20, 2010 on the 11th anniversary of the

transfer of sovereignty over Macau The transfer of sovereignty of Macau (; pt, Transferência da soberania de Macau) from Portugal to the People's Republic of China (PRC) occurred on 20 December 1999. Macau was settled by Portuguese merchants in 1557, during the Ming dynasty ...

. The protest took place on the same date as the handover anniversary in 1999. The protesters mainly complained about

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, housing prices and how the Macau citizens are treated worse than the

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s given to them by

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Protest

The protest initially started with the Macau pro-democracy camp and members of the labor union. The march went from Iao Hon Park to the government offices shouting slogans and waving banners.The Standard HK.
The Standard.com
." ''Macau demo hits graft, flat prices.'' Retrieved on 2010-12-21. The theme was to fight against

Macau Government The Government of the Macau Special Administrative Region (; Portuguese: Governo da R.A.E. de Macau; conventional short name Macau Government, 澳門政府, Governo de Macau), are headed by secretariats or commissioners and report directly to ...

corruption, fight for democracy and to improve livelihood. (反貪腐、爭民主、保民生).Worldjournal.com.
Worldjournal.com
." ''澳門回歸11周年 1300人遊行爭普選.'' Retrieved on 2010-12-21. About 1,200 to 1,300 people participated wearing

masks. In December 2010

central government sent two pandas to Macau for good will. The names of the two pandas are hoi hoi (開開) and sum sum (心心), meaning "happy" (開心) in Chinese. The Macau government has already arranged a million dollar luxury home for the pandas, while the people are neglected in unaffordable bad public housing. The 3,000m² panda pavilion at Seac Pai Van Park in Coloane Island is budgeted at 80-90 million patacas (about

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10,000,000).Macaunews.com.mo.
Macaunews.com.mo
" ''Macau's panda pavillion to cost 90 million patacas.'' Retrieved on 2010-12-21. More criticism followed that the pandas should be called po po (普普) and syun syun (選選), meaning "universal suffrage" (普選). Others called for affordable housing and universal suffrage for the 2019 Macau chief executive election.Macaunews.com.mo.
Macaunews.com.mo
" ''Macau protesters call for reforms.'' Retrieved on 2010-12-21.

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Fernando Chui Fernando Chui Sai-on (; born 13 January 1957) is a Macau politician who served as the 2nd Chief Executive of Macau from 2009 to 2019. He served as Secretary for Social and Cultural Affairs from 1999 to 2009. Chui was born in 1957 to local c ...

was accused of ignoring high inflation and rocketing home prices.

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Fernando Chiu responded saying livelihood is his prime concern and he does listen to the demands and views of the public. Meanwhile, previous Macau chief

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 People ...

won the Grand lotus award.

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