One is located at the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip, List of stores from the Bellagio hotel / casino website the other at the MGM Grand Casino in Macau. Press release by MGM Macau mentioning Chihuly shop ( search for " Chihuly retail ") A number of other galleries also carry his pieces. In 1983 Chihuly returned to his native Pacific Northwest where he continued to develop his own work at the Pilchuck Glass School, which he had helped to found in 1971.

The country also has a Chinese minority, including Macanese people of mixed Portuguese and Chinese blood from Macau.

Hong Kong's terrestrial commercial TV networks, ATV and TVB, can also be seen in neighboring Guangdong Province and Macau ( via cable ).

In addition to commercial properties, Hongkong Land also develops residential properties in key cities around the region including Hong Kong, mainland China, Macau and Singapore where its subsidiary MCL Land is a significant property developer.

Some Japanese, including descendants of Japanese Catholics who were expelled by shoguns, also live in Macau.

In the 1970s Macau also saw a rapid development in its manufacturing sector.

Hong Kong radio stations also are popular in Macau.

He won also the Macau Grand Prix.

Unless otherwise indicated, the statistics on this page pertain to mainland China only ; see also Demographics of Hong Kong, Demographics of Macau, and Demographics of Taiwan.

* Although trade existed between the two beforehand, in this year the Portuguese begins to send regular seasonal maritime trade missions to Ming Dynasty China at Sao João Island ( also known as Shangchuan Island ) near Macau.

In the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement ( as well as the Mainland and Macau Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement ) the CPG also uses the Chinese characters 内地 " inner land ", with the note that they refer to the " customs territory of China ".< ref name = CEPA > English Text Chinese text

The ROC's constitution still raises claims of sovereignty over Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau – territories that today constitute the PRC – but, according to some interpretations, also over Mongolia, Tuva ( Russia ), and other, minor areas which today are part of Afghanistan, Myanmar, India and Japan.

Despite the lack of formal diplomatic relations, Bhutan has also maintained an Honorary Consul in Macau since 2000 and Hong Kong since 2004.

* Little Sheep ( People's Republic of China ), Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and also the United States, Japan and Canada

Frost occurs very rarely, and the last snowfall in the city took place in January 1893, when snow also fell at Guangzhou, Macau, in the inland parts of Hong Kong and in the hills of Taipei.

The same system is used also in Macau, a former Portuguese overseas province near Hong Kong.

Macau also adopted the 999 number ; it also introduced two emergency hotline numbers: 110 ( mainly for tourists from mainland China ) and 112 ( mainly for tourists from overseas ).

Macau has opened numerous specialty shops also, many of which are franchise extensions of stores from Hong Kong.

* Macau: Veolia invested in a joint venture with RATP Asia and created Reolian Public Transport Co .. Services began August 1st, 2011 and is operating two of five groupings of routes, also to be the more important arterial routes of the city.

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

Guan Yu is also worshipped by Chinese businessmen in Shanxi, Hong Kong, Macau and Southeast Asia as an alternative wealth god, since he is perceived to bless the upright and protect them from the wicked.

In contrast, users of traditional characters outside Taiwan, such as those in Hong Kong, Macau and overseas Chinese communities, and also users of simplified Chinese characters, call them complex characters ().

The DTMB standard has been adopted in the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), including Hong Kong and Macau.

The involvement of governments, through regulation and taxation, has led to a close connection between many governments and gaming organizations, where legal gambling provides significant government revenue, such as in Monaco or Macau.

Evidence of human and culture dating back 4, 000 to 6, 000 years has been discovered on the Macau Peninsula and dating back 5, 000 years on Coloane Island.

Mong Há has long been the center of Chinese life in Macau and the site of what may be the region's oldest temple, a shrine devoted to the Buddhist Guanyin ( Goddess of Mercy ).

Macau has a number of universities.

In accordance with Article 31 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of China, Macau has Special Administrative Region status, which provides constitutional guarantees for implementing the policy of " one country, two systems " and the constitutional basis for enacting the Basic Law of the Macau Special Administrative Region.

The economy of Macau has remained one of the most open in the world since its reversion to China in 1999.

Since Macau has little arable land and few natural resources, it depends on mainland China for most of its food, fresh water, and energy imports.

Aomen Ribao ( or Ou Mun Iat Pou, Macau Daily News ) is reportedly owned by the Communist Party of China and has the largest circulation ( 40, 00 ).

Macau has eight Chinese-language, three Portuguese-language and two English-language daily.

Alcatel-Lucent has been granted a contract in February 2007 to collocate a CDMA2000 1xEV-DO ( Revision A ) high-speed wireless network in Macau for China Unicom.

Since December 20, 1999, the defense of Macau has been the responsibility of the Chinese People's Liberation Army ( PLA ), which stations between 500-600 troops in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, primarily as a symbolic presence to underscore Chinese sovereignty.

Although the Basic Law states that the Macau SAR government may " when necessary " ask the central government to allow the garrison to assist in maintaining public order or disaster relief, Chief Executive Ho has said that, in keeping with the Basic Law the garrison will play no role in internal security.

The Macau Tower Bungy has a " Guide cable " system that limits swing ( the jump is very close to the structure of the tower itself ) but does not have any effect on the speed of descent, so this still qualifies the jump for the World Record.

It has proposed reunification with Taiwan under the principle of " One Country, Two Systems ", as has been done for both Hong Kong and Macau.

The sheet music in Appendix 4 has the lyric in Chinese only without Portuguese translation even though both Chinese and Portuguese are official languages of Macau.

As in Hong Kong, Macau has its own immigration policies and is a separate customs territory from mainland China.

In Chinese-speaking areas such as mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, different naming convention on several terms has been practiced according to their political proximity to which Korean governments although there is a growing trend for convergence.

In Macau, from 1989 to 1999, Taiwan was represented by the ' Taipei Trade and Tourism Office ', Taiwan's first-time representation in Macau after Kuomintang's expulsion from Macau as the consequence of the December 3rd Incident in 1966.