The New Macau Association (AMN) is a major pro-democratic political party in the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Macau, the party was established in 1992 and the founding chairman was Antonio Ng Kuok Cheong, a current member in which organization, returned by direct election?
Antonio Ng António Ng Kuok Cheong (; born September 26, 1957 in Nanhai, Guangdong; moved to Macau in 1959) is currently a member in the Macau Legislative Assembly, returned by direct election. He was the founding chairman of the pro-democratic political party New Democratic Macau Association. He is also the leader of the political pressure group Union for Democracy Development. Ng has been a major figure in the Macau democracy movement and is one of the three pro-democratic legislators in the Assembly.
History of Macau Macau is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China. Macau became a colony of the Portuguese empire in 1557. It was lent to Portugal as a trading post but remained under Chinese authority and sovereignty. Self-administration was next achieved in the 1840s. When the Qing dynasty and Portugal signed the Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Peking in 1887, the treaty terms made Macau a Portuguese territory again until 1999, when it was handed over to China. Macau was the last extant European territory in continental (on-shore) Asia.