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Macau and Tower
In August 2005, AJ Hackett added a SkyJump to the Macau Tower, making it the world's highest jump at.
On 17 December 2006, The Macau Tower started operating a proper bungee jump, which became the " Highest Commercial Bungee Jump In The World " according to the Guinness Book of Records.
* Macau Tower ( inspired by the Sky Tower, designed by the same company )
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.
On a visit to Auckland, New Zealand, Macau casino billionaire Stanley Ho Hung-Sun was so impressed by the Sky Tower in Auckland that he commissioned a similar one to be built in Macau.
The Macau Tower Entertainment & Convention Centre also houses several stores and a movie theatre.
On December 17, 2006, the father of contemporary bungee jumping, A J Hackett, and popular artist Edison Chen broke two Guinness World Records at the Macau Tower.
Edison Chen represented Macau Tower in the inaugural jump to bid for " The World's Highest Bungee Jump Facility ".
* Sky Tower, the tower which Macau Tower was based on.
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* Macau Tower

Macau and has
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.
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.

Macau and Guide
The 2006 edition of the Rough Guide to Hong Kong and Macau compares the local milk tea unfavourably with " proper " English tea served in more formal Western cafes and hotels such as the Peninsula Hotel, citing different cultural preferences.

Macau and cable
Hong Kong's terrestrial commercial TV networks, ATV and TVB, can also be seen in neighboring Guangdong Province and Macau ( via cable ).
Guangdong Province had coaxial cable and microwave lines linking it to Hong Kong and Macau.
Hong Kong's terrestrial commercial TV networks, TVB and ATV, can also be seen in neighboring Guangdong Province and Macau ( via cable ).
Hong Kong's terrestrial commercial TV networks, TVB and ATV, can also be seen in neighboring Guangdong Province and Macau ( via cable ).

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