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.

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

Macau also has representation on the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

He landed at Macau in 1610, and while waiting a favourable opportunity to penetrate into China busied himself for three years in teaching mathematics.

In Hong Kong, there are three piers that provides ferry services to Macau and cities in southern China:

During the first three quarters of 2007, Macau registered year-on-year GDP increases of 31. 4 %.

Portuguese and Chinese merchants flocked to Macau, and it quickly became an important regional trading center in Portugal's lucrative trade along three major routes: Macau-Malacca-Goa-Lisbon, Guangzhou-Macau-Nagasaki and Macau-Manila-Mexico.

Although people of Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China do not use passports to travel between the three places, other documents, such as the Mainland Travel Permit ( for the people of Hong Kong and Macau ), are used instead ; foreigners are required to present their passports at the immigration control points.

At the NBA China Games, the Magic swept the three games in China, twice against the Cleveland Cavaliers and once against the Chinese national team in games held in Shanghai and in Macau.

Other survivors of these missions retired to nearby Lampaco ( Lampa ) in Guangdong, where a trade post would exist for several decades ; in 1537, there were written records of the Portuguese having three warehouses at Lampa, Shangchuan Island, and Macau, and were initially allowed there with the excuse of drying their goods in a storm.

The Hong Kong – Zhuhai – Macau Bridge is an ongoing construction project which consist of a series of bridges and tunnels that will connect Hong Kong, Macau and Zhuhai, three major cities on the Pearl River Delta in southern China.

Macau International Airport, University of Macau, Macau Jockey Club and Macau Stadium are situated in Taipa, and three bridges connect the island to Macau Peninsula.

Generally, gambling in Macau can be divided into three different categories: casino games, horse racing and greyhound racing.

Wynn successfully bid for one of three gaming concessions that were opened for tender in Macau, a Special Administrative Region ( SAR ) of China, which has a long history of gaming and is the largest gaming market in the world, having surpassed Las Vegas in 2006.

The student enrollment rose to about three thousands and the percentage of Macau students rose to above 80 %.

The courts of the Macau SAR are structured in three levels and have final power of adjudication, except in very narrow areas.

Deputies are elected ( over a three month period ) by the people's congresses of the country's 23 provinces, five autonomous regions and the four municipalities directly under the Central Government, the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau and the armed forces.

The island is the largest among the 146 islands of Zhuhai, being roughly three times the size of Macau.

The Hong Kong branches of three of these ( namely Young Brothers Banking Corporation, Wo Sang Bank and National Industrial Bank of China were closed in 1954 when their parents were scrapped, and management of the remaining six public-private banks were transferred to the Hong Kong and Macau Regional Office of the Bank of China in 1958.

Edmund Ho Hau Wah, (; born 13 March 1955 in Macau with family roots in Panyu, Guangdong ) was the Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region ( MSAR ) of the People's Republic of China.

The region comprises the Macau Peninsula and the islands of Taipa and Coloane.

The Estrada do Istmo connecting the islands of Taipa and Coloane in Macau was initially built as a causeway.

Coloane is one of the two main islands of the Macau Special Administrative Region, located directly south of Macau's other main island, Taipa ( 氹仔, Dàngzǎi ), and east of Hengqin Island of Zhuhai in Guangdong province.

Coloane has an area of 8. 07 km² ( 4-km long ) and is 5. 6 km from the Macau Peninsula.

The highest points in Macau are eastern and central Coloane, with the highest point being the 171-metre Alto de Coloane ( Chin.

After their arrival, the Portuguese made Macau an important trading port, but Coloane remained deserted, which was used as a base by pirates until 1910.

* Google Maps: Macau / Coloane

The colony was later expanded from a small settlement on the Macau Peninsula, to the entire peninsula, Ilha Verde, Taipa and Coloane.

Tam Kung Temple, in Coloane, Macau

There is also a Tam Kung Temple at Rua de Cinco de Outubro in Coloane, Macau.

Hengqin Island is adjacent to Ilha da Taipa and Ilha de Coloane of Macau, and is connected to Macau's Cotai via the Lotus Bridge.

Zona do Aterro de Cotai ) is a 5. 2 km < sup > 2 </ sup > piece of newly reclaimed land between Taipa and Coloane islands in Macau, that has not yet been assigned to any of the freguesias.