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Macau, China, 10 Aug – Brazil beat China 3-2 to claim the title of the 2009 World women’s volleyball Grand Prix Macau leg on Sunday in the chinese city. In the first two sets Brazil won 25-21 and 25-20 but China team looked more confident in the third and fourth sets and won 25-19 and […]

Macau, China, 3 Jul – Macau is going to be one of the host cities in the 2009 edition of the FIVB (Fédération Internacionale de Volleyball) Women’s World Grand Prix, which will have 12 national teams competing for the final to be held in Tokyo. Brazil, China, Poland and Thailand are the national sides that […]

Macau, China, 1 Jul – Macau will be represented by a delegation of 60 athletes playing six different sports in the second edition of the Lusophone Games, which takes place in Lisbon between 11 and 19 July, 2009. José Tavares, vice-president of the Macau Sport Development Board, told Portugal’s Lusa News Agency that Macau will […]

Macau, 09 Apr – The Macau government will increase spending this year on a campaign to encourage residents to increase their fitness levels and utilise public sports facilities. More than MOP 407 million will be invested this year in the Macau Sport Development Fund to support everything from elite sporting events, like the Hong Kong […]

Macau, China, 15  Dec –  China’s tennis players  took a sweep of the single event in the 2008 ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals here on Sunday. Ma Long won his first gold after beating teammate Wang Hao 4-0 in men’s final while Guo Yan defeated Guo Yue 4-2 to claim the women’s title in the […]

Macau, China, 7 Dec – Ethiopian runner Yemane Tsegay Adhane today won the 2008 edition of the men’s marathon in Macau with a time of 02:15:06, followed by Kenyan Cyrian Kiogara Hwobi, six seconds later. Third place went to Ukrainian Mykhail Iveruk with a time of 02:16:49. In the women’s marathon, China’s Lili Yuan won […]

Macau, China, 16 Nov – Keisuke Kunimoto, the 19 year-old Japanese driver, Saturday won the 55th Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix in a Dallara Toyota of Tom’s Team, followed by Italian driver Edoardo Mortara, in a Volkswagen and New Zealander Brendon Hartley in a Dallara Mercedes. Tokyo-born Kunimoto, who raced for the first time in […]

Macau, China, 15 Nov – Stuart Easton, the 25-year old British rider,  Saturday won the 42nd Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix on a Honda 1000 on the 6.2-kilometre Guia Racing Circuit, considered one of the most difficult in the world. Easton, also known as Rat Boy, won the 15-lap race after a tight fight with fellow […]

Macau, China, 27 Oct – Six years after winning the Volvo China Open in Shanghai, David Gleeson won his second Asian Golf Tour title with a three-shot victory over Taiwan’s Lin Wen-tang in the US$500,000 Macau Open Sunday. Gleeson opened with two rounds of 64 to lead by five strokes, added a 69 on Saturday […]