As a result, in many of the southern European countries, including Portugal, Spain and Italy, lawyers have traditionally been addressed as “ doctor ,” a practice which was transferred to many countries in South America ( as well as Macau in China ).

Another of Xavier's arm bones was brought to Macau where it was kept in a silver reliquary.

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.

It became an independent nation in 2002 ; and Macau was handed over to the Chinese as per a treaty in 1999.

King Philip II of Spain was encouraged to not harm the status quo, to allow trade to continue between Portuguese Macau and Spanish Manila, and to not interfere with Portuguese trade with China.

After the Dutch East India Company was founded in 1602, the Dutch unsuccessfully attacked Macau several times, culminating in a full scale invasion attempt in 1622, when 800 attackers were successfully repelled by 150 Macanese and Portuguese defenders.

As well as being an important trading post, Macau was a center of activity for Catholic missionaries, as it was seen as a gateway for the conversion of the vast populations of China and Japan.

In 1576, Macau was established as an episcopal see by Pope Gregory XIII with Melchior Carneiro appointed as the first bishop.

Macau was once an island but gradually a connecting sandbar turned into a narrow isthmus.

Land reclamation in the 17th century made Macau into a peninsula, and a barrier gate was built to mark the separation between the peninsula and the mainland.

Although Macau was hit hard by the 1997 – 98 Asian financial crisis and the global downturn in 2001, its economy grew approximately 13. 1 % annually on average between 2001 and 2006.

Macau was a barren fishing village with a population of about 400 before the Portuguese arrived in the 16th century, during the Age of Discovery.

China was linked to the international telecommunications network by the installation of communications satellite ground stations and the construction of coaxial cables linking Guangdong Province with Hong Kong and Macau.

In Macau, under Portuguese administration, the same colour of ink was used for all stamps, but the stamps had slightly different borders to indicate entry / exit by air, land, or sea.

The Asian dependency of Macau, after an agreement in 1986, was returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1999.

The Portuguese empire ended de facto in 1999 when Macau was returned to China, and de jure in 2002 when East Timor was independent.

In 1910-12, a Timorese rebellion was quashed after Portugal brought in troops from its colonies in Mozambique and Macau, resulting in the deaths of 3, 000 East Timorese.

From 1969 until 1981, apart from periods of practical training ( 1974 – 1976 ) in East Timor and in Macau, he was in Portugal and Rome where, having become a member of the Salesian Society, he studied philosophy and theology before being ordained a priest in 1980.

Häkkinen was close to winning the 1990 Macau Grand Prix but missed out due to a controversial accident with Michael Schumacher, which resulted in his promotion to Formula One with Team Lotus.

The anthem was performed in an official capacity in Hong Kong for the first time following the handover of the territory to the PRC in 1997, and the handover of Macau in 1999.

The building is in a prominent position by the sea and is now a landmark of Macau.

*** Governor of Macau ( under Portuguese rule, now replaced by Chief Executive )

In Hong Kong and Macau, because of their colonial and linguistic history, the language of education, the media, formal speech and everyday life remains the local Cantonese, although the standard language is now very influential and taught in schools.

Although Hong Kong and Macau are now Special Administrative Regions of China, each maintains its own long-established postal system, which does not utilize postal codes for domestic mail, and no postal codes are assigned to Hong Kong and Macau.

of East Asia, Macau ( no ISBN ); now available through Joint Publishing, jpchk @ jointpublishing. com ( be sure to provide Chinese author and title ).

Macau Tower Convention & Entertainment Centre (;), also known as Macau Tower, is a tower located in the former Portuguese colony of Macau, now a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.

of East Asia, Macau ; now by Joint Publishing, Hong Kong.

It is now spoken by a few families in Macau and in the Macanese diaspora.

Macanese use was already in decline while Macau was a Portuguese territory, and that situation is unlikely to improve now that the territory is under Chinese administration.

Macanese is the now nearly extinct native language of the so-called Macanese people, Macau's Eurasian minority, which presently comprises some 8, 000 residents in Macau ( about 2 % of its population ), and an estimated 20, 000 emigrants and their descendants, especially in Hong Kong, California, Canada, Peru, Brazil, Costa Rica, Australia, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Paria peninsula of Venezuela.

Through 35 TechSoup Global Network Partner NGOs and regional affiliates, the TechSoup technology donation program is now ( June 30, 2012 ) available to community-based organizations in a total of 39 countries in addition to the United States, including: Australia, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Luxembourg, Macau, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand and the United Kingdom.

* Cantemerle, now Château Cantemerle, Macau ( Haut-Médoc )

The return voyage touched upon Kamchatka, Macau, Batavia ( now Jakarta ), around the Cape of Good Hope again, and back to England.

Simplified characters are now official in the PRC and Singapore, while traditional Chinese characters, the system originally used in Chinese-speaking societies before the advent of simplified characters, remain in use elsewhere, including Hong Kong, Macau, the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) and many overseas Chinese communities.

Both Xiao Hengqin and Da Hengqin were claimed by Portugal, along with the larger former island of Wanzai ( Portuguese: Lapa ) — now a peninsula — to their north, as part of the Província da Macau, because " Portuguese schools are established there.

JETCO was founded by the Hong Kong Branch of the Bank of China ( now Bank of China ( Hong Kong )) in 1982 along with the Bank of East Asia, Chekiang First Bank, Shanghai Commercial Bank and Wing Lung Bank, and at present covers all banks in Hong Kong and Macau, except for HSBC and Hang Seng Bank, which uses a separate system known as ETC.

Beerlao is now exported to the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Ireland, Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, France, Thailand, Denmark, Hong Kong & Macau, Switzerland, China, Singapore and the Netherlands.

In a 1604 expedition from Batavia ( the central base of the Dutch in Asia ), Admiral van Warwijk set out to attack Macau, but his force was waylaid by a typhoon, driving them to the Pescadores ( now known as Penghu ).

Transmac has 3 depots in Macau and Taipa now, they are Ilha Verde depot, Pac On Depot and Macau Tower Depot.

* Grace Ho Ying ( 何昳 )-a graduate of Faculty of Business Administration of Chinese University of Hong Kong & an ' Outstanding Student of HKSAR ' in 1995, and now a professor of University of Macau ( Universidade de Macau ).