Chinese lottery is not documented before 1847 when the Portuguese Government of Macao decided to grant a licence to lottery operators.

Macao was first settled by Portuguese survivors of the massacres of the Portuguese at Ningbo and at Quanzhou by Chinese government soldiers.

Their atrocities at Ningpo and Macao, and their subsequent servility, had opened the eyes of the Chinese to their true character, and unfortunately for other European adventurers, they had come to the conclusion that all western nations were alike.

The senate of Macao complained to the viceroy of Goa, of the contempt with which the Chinese authorities treated them, confessing however that, “ it was owing more to the Portuguese themselves than to the Chinese .” The Chinese were obliged to restrict the commerce of Portugal to the port of Macao, in 1631.

The written forms of Standard Chinese are also essentially equivalent, although simplified characters are used in Mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore while people in Taiwan, Macao and Hong Kong generally use traditional characters.

In areas with large Chinese populations open to Western cultural influence, such as Hong Kong, Macao, Malaysia and Singapore, the local Chinese have adopted macaroni as an ingredient for Chinese-style Western cuisine.

In Hong Kong, Macao, and the diaspora communities in southeast Asia and abroad, the Chinese often romanize according to the sounds of their own languages, particularly Cantonese, Hokkien, and Hakka.

The mission, led by Charles-Thomas Maillard De Tournon, communicated the prohibition of Chinese rites in January 1707, but as a result was banished to Macao.

* MC, the FIPS country code for the Chinese territory of Macau ( also spelled Macao )

* Committee for Liaison with Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Overseas Chinese ( 港澳台侨委员会 )

*-( l ) ese ( Aragon → Aragonese, Assam → Assamese, Benin → Beninese, Bhutan → Bhutanese, Burma → Burmese ( though see below ; Irregular forms ), Calabria → Calabrese, China → Chinese, Congo → Congolese, Da Lat ( Vietnam ) → Dalatese, East Timor → East Timorese, The Faroe Islands → Faroese, Gabon → Gabonese, Genoa → Genovese, Guangdong → Cantonese, Guyana → Guyanese, Hong Kong → HongKongnese / Chinese, Japan → Japanese, Lebanon → Lebanese, Macao → Macanese / Chinese, Malta → Maltese, Marshall Islands → Marshallese, Milan → Milanese, Nepal → Nepalese, Piedmont → Piedmontese, Portugal → Portuguese, San Marino → Sammarinese, Sark → Sarkese, Senegal → Senegalese, Shanghai → Shanghainese, Sikkim → Sikkimese, ( South ) Sudan → ( South ) Sudanese, Suriname → Surinamese, Republic of China → Taiwanese, Togo → Togolese, Turin → Torinese, the Tyrol → Tyrolese, Vienna → Viennese, Vietnam → Vietnamese )

The number of overseas students, including foreign students, overseas Chinese students, students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, comprise up to 12, 108.

Taipa is the smaller of the two islands in the Chinese special administrative region of Macao ( formerly a Portuguese colony ).

* Sep-08, eliminated a loophole that Chinese resident to travel Macao using Hong Kong visa.

* After landing at Nootka Sound in August, former British naval captain John Meares arrives from Macao ( sailing under the Portuguese flag ) with 70 Chinese carpenters.

* 1995-The Chinese government confirmed that BNU would remain a note issuer in Macao until at least 2010.

Flights between mainland China and Hong Kong International Airport ( HKG ) and Macao Internatioanl Airport ( MFM ) are considered international.

Naturalised citizens, residents of Hong Kong, Macao or the People's Republic of China, soldiers and election officials are not eligible.

** Death penalty – Many countries, such as Australia, Canada, India, Macao, and most European nations, will not allow extradition if the death penalty may be imposed on the suspect unless they are assured that the death sentence will not be passed or carried out.

Independent media that operate within the PRC ( excluding Hong Kong and Macao, which have separate media regulatory bodies ) are no longer required to strictly follow journalistic guidelines set by the government.

The second part is two digits, which is the Guobiao GB 2260 numeric code of the subdivision, except Hong Kong and Macao, which use 91 and 92 respectively while their Guobiao codes are 81 and 82.

* Aug-08, travelers through Macao to another destination in China are only allowed to stay in Macao for 7 days vs. prior 14 days.

Other Lusophone music types popular in Macao are samba, bossa nova, and kizomba.

Residents from Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other nearby cities, as well as people from Hong Kong and Macao, are known to visit the city on weekend getaways and excursions.

Over 20, 000 students are currently enrolled in the two campuses in Fuzhou, among whom over 4, 600 are pursuing their graduate degrees and some others are international students from 17 countries such as the U. S., the U. K., Japan, and the Republic of Korea, and from China ’ s Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan areas or from overseas Chinese families around the world.

In Macau, permanent residents are issued a Macao Permanent Resident Identity Card ( Bilhete de Identidade de Residente Permanente ).

In 2008, Las Vegas Sands opened a Four Seasons hotel next to the Venetian Macao, as well as Paiza Mansions, which are “ for invited guests only .” The company is also building resorts in Macau for a number of brands --- The Holiday Inn, Intercontinental, and Sheraton Hotels --- when they open on the Sands Cotai Central in the first quarter of 2012.

When the film was first released, Bosley Crowther, film critic for The New York Times, lambasted the drama, writing, " All the other ingredients, including Miss Russell's famed physique, are pretty much the same as have been tumbled into previous cheesecakes with Jane and Bob ... Macao is a flimflam and no more — a flimflam designed for but one purpose and that is to mesh the two stars.

They are opposed by the Portuguese authorities in Macao ( as their agreements with China require ) and quickly infuriate the Ming authorities.

52 branches of the college are qualified to recruit postgraduate students from all over the country, including Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and it can also provide master's degrees for students who have the same educational level as school graduates.

The Macao pataca ( MOP ) is similarly linked to the Hong Kong dollar.

Weather authorities in Macao, however, still use the term " hoisted " when issuing their tropical cyclone warnings, the system of which is based heavily upon Hong Kong's.

In the West, some researchers would date the origins of sinology as far back as Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta in the 13th and 14th century, but the systematic study of China began in the late 16th century, when Jesuit missionaries based at St. Paul's College, Macao, notably Matteo Ricci, introduced Christianity to China.

The first probably came in the form of the Portuguese based in Macao who were not averse to raiding and pillaging along the southeast coast.

The Macao, a lemur found only on Mahoré, is protected by French law and by local tradition.

Heli Express operates regular helicopter service between Macao Heliport ( ICAO: VMMH ) on the Macau Ferry Terminal in Macau and the Shun Tak Heliport.

The section of Macao they settled on was San Chuan island.

** Three armed men hijack the Cathay Pacific passenger plane Miss Macao and shoot the pilot ; the plane crashes, killing 26 of 27 people on board.

" Macao: Legal Fiction and Gunboat Diplomacy " in Leadership on the China Coast, Goran Aijmer ( editor ), London: Curzon Press, pp. 101 – 102.

* On 8 November 2008, the first major international beauty pageant production of television programs, held in Macao and called the 48th Miss International, was broadcast on TVB.

The 108-metre-high Guanyin Statue of Hainan was enshrined on 24 April 2005 with the participation of 108 eminent monks from various Buddhist groups in Hong Kong, Macao and Mainland China, and tens of thousands of pilgrims.

Moreover, the currency board, Monetary Authority of Macao ( AMCM ), has a statutory obligation to issue and redeem pataca on demand against the Hong Kong dollar at a fixed exchange rate and without limit.

The chargé d ' affaires, de Courcy, in Macao learned of the murder on July 17 and filed a vigorous protest on July 25 to the Chinese Imperial Viceroy Ye Mingchen.

Walker also covered the BTCC for the BBC between 1988 and 1997, and the Macao event for Hong Kong TV on nine occasions.

* July 16 – Catalina seaplane Miss Macao ( VR-HDT ), operated by a Cathay Pacific subsidiary, with 23 passengers and 3 crew on board flying from Macau to Hong Kong is hijacked mid-way over the Pearl River Delta by a group of 4 hijackers attempting to rob the passengers on board.

He produced the Sutherland Report for the Portuguese Government on the handover of Macao to China in January 2000

on science, teaching and culture with Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao regions have been actively carried out.

Replicas of the current tower sit on the complex of The Venetian, the Venice-themed resort on the Las Vegas Strip, its sister resort The Venetian Macao, and in the Italy Pavilion at Epcot, a theme park at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

Tolerant but shrewd, their eyes less on baptism than the Portuguese cargoes from Macao, they granted the Jesuit permission to preach.

Through its majority-owned subsidiary Sands China Ltd, the company owns several properties in Macau, including The Venetian Macao, The Plaza Macao, Four Seasons Hotel Macao and the Four Seasons-branded apartments at the Sands Cotai Central development, as well as the Sands Macao on the Macau peninsula.