The success of his discovery soon spread around Europe and for example was used en masse in the Spanish Balmis Expedition, a three year long mission to the Americas, Philippines, Macao, China, and Saint Helena Island led by Dr. Francisco Javier de Balmis with the aim of giving thousands the smallpox vaccine.

He was sent as a missionary to China in 1610 and while waiting at Macau for a favorable opportunity to enter the country he published his " Résultat de l ' observation sue l ' éclipse de lune du 8 Novembre, 1612, faite a Macao " ( Mémoires de l ' Acad.

The Macao Science Center in Macau was designed by Pei Partnership Architects in association with I. M. Pei.

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

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.

Lord Napier, a broken and humiliated man, was allowed to return to Macao by land and not by ship as requested.

Peter Melnick, another grandson, is the composer of Adrift In Macao, which debuted at the Philadelphia Theatre Company in 2005 and was produced Off Broadway in 2007.

On the night of 27 February 2010 the " EEG 10th anniversary concert " was held at The Venetian Macao luxury hotel.

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.

* 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.

It was formerly known as the " Monetary and Foreign Exchange Authority of Macao " (, abbr.

Macao ( 1952 ) was von Sternberg's last Hollywood film.

At the start of World War II Thomson joined the RAF, and was serving in Macao when the Japanese attacked.

He was born in Macao, China, the son of John William Roberts of the East India Company and was educated at Mr Styles ' Classical Academy in Thames Ditton and at the Addiscombe Military Academy for service in the East India Company ( the HEIC ).

It was conferred the right to recruit Taiwan students by itself and the students from foreign countries, Hong Kong and Macao.

In 1979 he was appointed head of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee, then vice-premier and secretary-general of the State Council from 1980 to 1982, and finally head of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office.

But there were physical challenges to his idea: the total area of the small peninsula and two islands that make up Macao is less than 12 square miles ; this area is densely populated ; and, at the time, there was no land for such a large strip.

Shipping companies owned include: Conwick Investment Ltd ; Far East Hydrofoil Company Ltd ; Hongkong Macao Hydrofoil Company Ltd ; Sunrise Field Ltd ; Tai Tak Hing Shipping Company Ltd ( this was the company, then independent, that owned the steamship ferry Fat Shan, which sank off Lantau in Typhoon Rose in 1971 with the loss of 88 lives, en route from Macau ); Wealth Trump Ltd ; Shun Tak-China Travel Macau Ferries Ltd ( formerly known as Hong Kong-Macau New World First Ferry Services ( Macau ) Ltd ); Companhia de Serviços de Ferry STCT ( Macau ) ( formerly known as New Ferry-Transporte Maritimo de Passageiros ( Macau ))

Following the Praya reclamation of 1890 – 1904, a building was constructed and opened in 1905, that served as offices of Canadian Pacific Ocean Services ( G / F ) and Hong Kong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Company ( 1 / F ).

After this uprising failed, he was persecuted as a scapegoat and as a result, he was exiled to Europe and when he returned to Asia went into hiding in Macao.

* 1948 – The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.

* St. Paul's College, Macao is founded in Macau by Jesuits, being the first western style university in the far east.

The handover of Macau ( Macao ) to Portugal in 1557 by the Emperor of China ( as a reward for services rendered against the pirates who infested the South China Sea ) resulted in the first permanent European maritime trade post between Europe and China, with other European powers following suit over the next centuries, which caused the eventual demise of the Silk Road.

English first arrived in China in 1637, when British traders reached Macao and Guangzhou ( or Canton ).

The first three women priests ordained in the Anglican Communion were in the Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao: Li Tim-Oi in 1944 and Jane Hwang and Joyce Bennett in 1971.

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.

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.

The one million-square-foot Sands Macao became the People's Republic of China's first Las Vegas-style casino when it opened in May 2004.

Chinese Pidgin English was spoken first in the areas of Macao and Guangzhou, later spreading north to Shanghai by the 1830s.

The Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office at first proposed a list of 60-80 Hong Kong people to attend the ceremony.

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.

* Edmund Ho was the first Chief Executive of Macao SAR.

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

The Macao Science Center in Macau, designed by Pei Partnership Architects in association with I. M. Pei.

The massacres resulted in the Portuguese survivors fleeing to Macao, where they were allowed by China to start a colony to build sheds for drying goods in 1557.

His works include Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You, Beyond Therapy, Baby With the Bathwater, The Nature and Purpose of the Universe, Titanic, A History of the American Film, The Idiots Karamazov, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Laughing Wild, ' Dentity Crisis, The Actor's Nightmare, The Vietnamization of New Jersey, Betty's Summer Vacation, Naomi in the Living Room, Adrift in Macao, Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge, Miss Witherspoon, Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, and a collection of one-act parodies meant to be performed in one evening entitled Durang / Durang that includes " Mrs. Sorken ", " For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls " ( a parody of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams ), " A Stye Of the Eye ", " Nina in the Morning ", " Wanda's Visit ", and " Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room ".

As a part of the one country, two systems policy proposed by Deng Xiaoping and accepted by the British and Portuguese governments, the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macao retained separate border control and immigration policies with the rest of the PRC.

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.

* Example of anglicism by phonetic borrowing: use of expression "< ruby >< rb > 巴士 </ rp ></ ruby >" ( instead of " 公共汽車 " or " 公共汽车 ") for " bus " in Hong Kong and Macao because of similarity in pronunciations.

Macau has a currency board system under which the legal tender, Macau pataca ( or Macao pataca ), is 100 percent backed by foreign exchange reserves, in this case currently the Hong Kong dollar.

* 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.

Cared for by an amah ( 阿嬤 ), a woman who looks after children, Kwan owned a pony and passed the summer months in resorts in Borneo, Macao, and Japan.

The registry for this domain name is operated by the Macao Network Information Center ( MONIC ).