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16 unusual facts about Macau


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Macau, a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China

Automated Systems Holdings Limited

The ASL Group, consisting of Automated Systems (HK) Limited, ELM Computer Technologies Limited, CSA Automated (Macau) Ltd., Taiwan Automated Systems Ltd., Guangzhou Automated Systems Limited and ASL Automated (Thailand) Ltd., offers professional information technology services to corporate clients in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Mainland China and Thailand.

Bc magazine

Comprises "Macau Diary," paragraph-long descriptions of upcoming events in Macau, and short features on Macau.

China National Radio

Channel seven, Huaxia Radio, broadcasts programs for the listeners in Hong Kong, Macau and the Pearl River Delta.

Ferry to Hong Kong

He travels to Macau, but is refused entry for the same reason he was expelled from Hong Kong.

Henrique de Senna Fernandes

In 2006 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Macau and Medal of Cultural Merit in 2001.

Henry Frederick Stephenson

From September 1856 to April 1857 Stephenson served under Keppel as a cadet in HMS Raleigh, serving in the East Indies and China during the Second Anglo-Chinese War, until his ship wrecked near Macau when it struck an uncharted rock.

House of Yi

The combined effect on China of the opium wars in the south and Japanese naval strikes in the north increasingly led the Japanese to see Korea as a strategic foothold leading into northern China, just as Macau and Hong Kong had been Portuguese and English trade enclaves, respectively, in southern China.

Kong Shangren

Kong Shangren is known as the author of a curious poem dedicated to the eyeglasses, a Western innovation brought to Macau by the Portuguese.

Leung Sing-Bor

During the World War II, when the Japanese attacked Hong Kong, Leung brought his family to escape to Guangzhou to Macau then to Guangxi At Guangxi, he formed a Cantonese opera troupe there and performed in various towns of Guangxi.

Macau Amateur Radio Society

The Associação dos Radioamadores de Macau (ARM) (in traditional Chinese, 澳門業餘無線電協會; in English, Macao Amateur Radio Society) is a non-profit organization for amateur radio enthusiasts in Macau, China.

Macau women's national ice hockey team

The Macau women's national ice hockey team is the women's national ice hockey team in Macau.

Omobranchus aurosplendidus

Omobranchus aurosplendidus is a species of combtooth blenny found in the Northwest Pacific ocean, around China and Macau.

Publishing and Broadcasting Limited

PBL is currently involved in two casino projects in Macau: the $260 million Crown Macau, scheduled for completion in 2006-07, and the $1.4 billion City of Dreams.

Radio Vilaverde Lda

Radio Vilaverde Lda (Chinese: 綠邨738台) is a Macau-based radio station serving Macau, and the nearby Chinese cities, such as Hong Kong, as well as Zhuhai and Shenzhen in Guangdong Province.

Taça de Macau em futebol

Taça de Macau em futebol is the top football knockout tournament in Macau.


Antonio Ng

After his graduation from Yuet Wah College, Macau, Ng obtained his undergraduate degree in economics at Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Cantonese restaurant

In the inaugural 2009 Hong Kong and Macau edition of the Michelin Guide, 14 restaurant received stars including two stars to three restaurants, ten with one star and the maximum of three stars to Lung King Heen at the Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong helmed by Chef de cuisine Chan Yan-tak.

China Dragon Racing

They will team up with the Macau-based RPM Racing Team, whose owner Lei Kit Meng will drive a BMW 320si at the 2009 FIA WTCC Race of Macau, the final round of the 2009 World Touring Car Championship season.

Chinatown, Brisbane

Now, many Chinese-Australian residents including people from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and China have started to drift away from Chinatown and settle around the favourable Feng shui Sunnybank area located south of the CBD.

Chinese Portuguese

Macanese language, a Portuguese-based creole originating from Macau

Macanese people, people of mixed Chinese and Portuguese descent in Macau

Dines Bjørner

Inter alia, he was responsible for establishing the United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST), Macau, in 1992 and was its first director.

Edgar Pêra

videoclips for GNR, Rádio Macau, Madredeus, Resistência, Capitão Fantasma, LX90, Rão Kiao, Black Company, Djamal, Terrakota, The Legendary Tigerman, Bullet, No Data, DJ Vibe/Ithaka.

Franco Dragone

The House of Dancing Water is set in the 2000-seat Dancing Water Theater designed by Pei Partnership Architects; the theater is part of the City of Dreams integrated entertainment resort in Macau.

Galathea expeditions

The Galathea proceeded to Southeast Asia, calling at Penang, Singapore, Batavia, and Manila before heading for the Chinese coast and visiting Hong Kong, Macau, Canton, Amoy, and Shanghai.

Gongbei Port of Entry

The counterpart in Macau, through which travellers must pass before or after Gongbei is the Portas do Cerco, operated by the Serviço de Migração of the Corpo de Polícia de Segurança Pública, and the Serviços de Alfândega.

Gubei, Shanghai

Gubei is best known as an enclave of East Asian expatriates in Shanghai, including those from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Harry Rolnick

His other restaurant guides, to Hong Kong, Bangkok and Macau, prompted Alan Levy to write in The Foodie’s Guide to the World, "Nobody eats in Asia without consulting Harry Rolnick first”.

Johann Schreck

He was in contact with all important scientists of his time: Johannes Kepler sent his newest astronomic opus, the "Rudolphine Tables" to China, which, however, he was not able to receive: they arrived in Macau 16 years after Schreck's death.

Jorge Alberto Hagedorn Rangel

Jorge Alberto da Conceição Hagedorn Rangel was a Portuguese civil servant in Macau and served in the post of Secretary for Public Administration, Education and Youth.

Jornal Tribuna de Macau

The JTM is affiliated with the Portuguese newspaper "Diário de Notícias," and says in its mission statement that its aim is to encourage the use of Portuguese and help Macau maintain ties with Portugal and the rest of the Portuguese-speaking world.

Karl Gützlaff

In Macau, and later in Hong Kong, Gutzlaff worked on a Chinese translation of the Bible, published a Chinese-language magazine, Eastern Western Monthly Magazine, and wrote Chinese-language books on practical subjects.

Keisuke Kunimoto

At the end of the season, Kunimoto went to Macau with TOM'S and won the Macau F3 Grand Prix, becoming the second Japanese driver to win the race after Takuma Sato.

Lenira Santos

Santos also competed in the 200 and 400 metre events at the 2006 Lusophony Games in Macau.

Luc Lafortune

In 2010, Lafortune completed the lighting design for the Franco Dragone production The House of Dancing Water at the City of Dreams, in Macau.

Luo Jing

Throughout his tenure, Luo, often alongside his colleague Xing Zhibin, was the news frontman of China's state-owned network for all of the nation's pivotal events since the 1980s, covering the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests, the death of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in 1997, and the Chinese government's decision to crack down on Falun Gong in 1999, as well as the return of Macau to Chinese sovereignty in the same year.

Macao Special Administrative Region passport

According to the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China and the Explanations of some questions by the Standing Committee of the PRC National People's Congress concerning the implementation of the Nationality Law in the Macau SAR, any Macau SAR permanent resident holding Chinese nationality can apply for the Macau SAR passport.

Macau Daily Times

The newspaper, like all press in Macau (and Hong Kong), are protected by the Basic Law and Press Law, which upholds the freedom of the press in the enclave and restricting government regulation of the media.

Macau–United States relations

The legislature passed an anti-terrorism law in April 2002 that includes provisions that are consistent with the requirements of UN Security Council Resolution 1373.

After the Macau government ended the 40-year-old gaming monopoly of the Sociedade de Turismo e Diversões de Macau (STDM) in February 2002, the government awarded concessions to three consortia, including two with significant U.S. investment.

Myanmar at the Asian Games

The 2007 Games in Macau, held from 26 October to 3 November 2007, were the only revision of the Games in which Myanma athletes won medals (two silver).

Optical 88

Optical 88's headquarters is located at Hong Kong, China (dispersed all over Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories) while overseas stores are located at various countries and cities including Macau, Guangzhou, Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia etc.

Pacific Century Group

In February 2013, PCG announced the acquisition of the Hong Kong, Macau and Thailand insurance businesses from ING Groep N.V. (ING).

Peter Bakowski

He has been writer-in-residence at the B.R. Whiting Library in Rome; the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris; the University of Macau; Soochow University, Jiangsu Province, China; the Katherine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre in Greenmount, Western Australia; the Hobart Writer’s Cottage in Battery Point, Tasmania; the Arthur Boyd Estate of “Bundanon” near Nowra, New South Wales; the Broken Hill Poetry Festival, New South Wales.

Pierre Poivre

In his early 20s he was a missionary in Far Eastern locations such as Cochinchina, Guangzhou and Macau.

Politics of Macau

Previously, in December 1999, the NPC Standing Committee approved the membership of the NPC Committee for the Basic Law of the Macau Special Administrative Region, chaired by NPC Vice Chairman Qiao Xiaoyang, for a five-year term.

Included are three judges who serve on the Macau SAR's highest court, the Court of Final Appeal (CFA): 39-year-old Sam Hou Fai (who will be chief justice), 32-year-old Chu Kin, and the 46-year-old Viriato Manuel Pinhiero de Lima.

Reolian Public Transport Co.

The data of Macau's 58 regular bus lines (excluding special lines) has been integrated to Google Maps.

Sarah Brightman in Concert with Orchestra

Sarah Brightman In Concert With Orchestra is a tour by English soprano singer Sarah Brightman in October 2010 with performances in Japan, Macau and Korea.

The Pedruco Sisters

The Pedruco Sisters is a family of 4 sisters who have competed at the Miss Chinese International pageant and Miss World pageant representing Macau.

Transfer of sovereignty over Macau

However, Macau has now adopted the digital TV standard devised in mainland China, instead of DVB-T.

Transport in Macau

It was inaugurated on December 1995 and has since established a number of regulars flights between Macau and major cities in Northeast and Southeast Asia, for example Bangkok, Beijing, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, etc.

Transportation in the Philippines

After offering low fares to domestic destinations, Cebu Pacific launched its international operations on November 2001 and now flies to Bangkok, Busan, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Macau, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei.

Wan Kuok-koi

One of his most outrageous stunts was to close down the Macau-Taipa Bridge for some hours to allow filming of a crucial scene in the movie.