Deccan Herald – Print

What is it with Portuguese colonies and casinos I wondered as I flew into Hong Kong for my connecting Turbojet ferry to Macau. Like Goa, Macau too, had been a Portuguese outpost for over four-and-a-half centuries. Over time, some Portuguese married locally, mostly Chinese, besides Malay and Filipinos from Southeast Asia, and Indians from South Asia, creating a new ethnic group called the Macanese.