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.

Since the return of Hong Kong and Macau to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 and 1999, respectively, the two territories have retained their legal, political, and economic systems.

Since the re-integration of Macau with the People's Republic of China in late 1999, the traditional definitions are in a state of re-formulation.

Since 2002 Chen and his family have been investing and running various business in mainland China, Nepal and Macau.

Since Tyson is not allowed to fight in Japan because of his criminal record, Pride wanted to stage the fight in an alternate country, possibly Macau, China.

Since then, Macau has become known worldwide as the " Monte Carlo of the Orient ".

Since the first Chinese immigrants came from Macau, some of them also speak Portuguese.

Since 1973, he has taught in the Holy Spirit Seminary College of Hong Kong-1976 to 1978 of Macao Salesian School ( Instituto Salesiano ) （ 澳門慈幼中學 ） as principal ; In 1978, he became the Provincial Superior of Salesians ( which includes mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan ), then resigned in 1983.

Since the 1970s, the new arrivals have typically hailed from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Since October 2007, black plates are no longer issued for vehicles belonging to foreigners, but they are still used for people driving into Mainland China from Hong Kong and Macau.

Since 1997, the university has enrolled a total of 216 postgraduates from Macau, who pursued such fields as economy, enterprise management, computer science and philosophy.

Since launching her comeback Zhou's titles have included the New Zealand and Philippines Opens in 2007, and the Korea, India, Macau Opens, and China Masters in 2008.

: Since it is an undoubted fact that the going of Japanese in ships to Macau is prejudicial to that place, this practice will be strictly prohibited for the future.

Since the land reclamation and development, there has been a growing opinion in Macau that the island should be leased to Macau, where land is very limited and there is little room for further development.

Since no state claimed authority to try him, Huang was released without trial from Macau prison on June 11, 1951, and was then deported to China ( by then the People's Republic of China ).

Since then, the CZGP has made an important contribution to implementing overseas Chinese policies and strengthening ties with Hong Kong and Macau as well as overseas Chinese for the reunification of China.

Since 1944 he has also conducted regularly at the San Francisco Opera, where he made his debut with a memorable performance of Verdi's Falstaff.

Since 1954 the Negro's desire for social justice has led to an ironically anarchical rebellion.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

Since 1953 California has led the nation in enacting guarantees that public business shall be publicly conducted, but not until this year did the lawmakers in Sacramento plug the remaining loopholes in the Brown Act.

Since little is known about autism, and almost nothing has been written for the layman, we'd like to share one experienced mother's comments.

Since it was issued in the spring of 1611, the King James Version has been most generally considered the most poetic and beautiful of all translations of the Bible.

Since the Connally amendment has the effect of giving the same right to the other party to a dispute with the United States, it also prevents us from using the court effectively.

Since he has just shown who is top dog, he may not be ready to receive this highest honor in the gift of the Soviet people.

Since then nothing has happened to save the life of Pope.

Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.

Since then, there has been a notable increase in the number of stations and also the accumulation of additional data and the development of new techniques for using it, leading to a better understanding of propagation phenomena.

Since the Industrial Revolution, when factories emerged, this classical pattern has been followed.

Since Af are linearly independent functions and the exponential function has no zeros, these R functions Af, form a basis for the space of solutions.

Since C is rational, this correspondence has K coincidences, each of which implies a line of the pencil which meets its image.

Since the course, one member has lost her husband.

Since her bereavement this individual has reported to the writer on numerous occasions about how helpful the class discussions were to her in this adjustment crisis.

Since on the one hand school desegregation has come in Virginia hand-in-glove with pupil assignment, shall we support the plan??

Since this book is concerned only incidentally with railroad rates, it will not attempt to analyze the methods by which the staff of the Interstate Commerce Commission has estimated out-of-pocket costs and apportioned residue costs.

Since that time the telegraph office has shifted in location from the railroad station at the Depot and shops at the Center back to the town clerk's office and drugstore at the Village.

Since 1948 the working headquarters has been the Department of Geology and Mineralogy.

Since the removal force is a function of coating thickness, a differential transformer pickup has been incorporated into the instrument to accurately measure film thickness.

Since the mid 1950s, when urethane foam first made its appearance in the American market, growth has been little short of fantastic.

Since interviewing is the basic therapeutic and diagnostic instrument of modern psychiatry, the recording of interviews for playbacks and study has been a boost of Redstone proportions in new research and training.

Since 1949, the St. Louis club has been below on May 1 just four times.

Since 1927, fewer than a dozen men have made serious runs at Babe Ruth's record and each, in turn, has been thwarted.