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Chief Executive of Macau (since 20 December 2024); Chairman of the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Macao Special Administrative Region (since 20 December 2024); President of the Court of Final Appeal of Macau (1999–2024)."},{"q":"Where did Sam Hou Fai study?","a":"Sam Hou Fai was educated at Peking University, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Secondary School, University of Coimbra."}],"related":[{"name":"Fernando Chui","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/fernando-chui"},{"name":"Ho Iat Seng","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ho-iat-seng"},{"name":"Zong Qinghou","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/zong-qinghou"},{"name":"Carrie Lam","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/carrie-lam"},{"name":"Donald Tsang","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/donald-tsang"},{"name":"Henry Tang","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/henry-tang"},{"name":"John Lee Ka-chiu","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/john-lee-ka-chiu"},{"name":"Tung Chee-hwa","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/tung-chee-hwa"},{"name":"Peter Woo","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/peter-woo"},{"name":"Chen Zhenggao","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/chen-zhenggao"},{"name":"Wu Guanzheng","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/wu-guanzheng"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/sam-hou-fai-91dd7ec21e.jpg","width":500,"height":666,"license":"CC BY 3.0","credit":"中国新闻网","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sam_Hou_Fai.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Sam Hou Fai","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hou_Fai","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q7407632","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7407632","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Sam Hou Fai.jpg by 中国新闻网 (CC BY 3.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sam_Hou_Fai.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Sam Hou Fai, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Sam Hou Fai.jpg — 中国新闻网, CC BY 3.0.","cite":"\"Sam Hou Fai\". DigiNepal. Last updated 1 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/sam-hou-fai. Retrieved 6 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-01T07:02:55Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/sam-hou-fai","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/sam-hou-fai","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/sam-hou-fai?lang=ne"}}