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	Macau Flag - World Flags 101 - Macau Flags
		The flag of Macau has a green base with a white lotus flower in the center of it.
		The Macau flag was adopted on March 31, 1993 before the country's sovereignty was given back to China from the Portuguese on December 20, 1999.
		Prior to the handover by the Portuguese, Macau used both the Portuguese national flag and a special Macau flag with the arms of the colony on it.
	www.worldflags101.com /m/macau-flag.aspx (275 words)

	Flag of Macau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The flag of Macau is light green with a lotus flower above the stylized Nobre Governador Carvalho Bridge and water in white, beneath an arc of five gold, five-pointed stars: one large in center of arc and four smaller.
		There was a flag for the Government of Macau [1], with designs of a dragon and a Portuguese-style coat-of-arms; but it is not used to represent Macau as a colony, but the Concelho of Macau (the other being the Conselho das Ilhas).
		There was another flag for the city of Macau (one of the two cities in the colony), with a Portuguese-style coat-of-arms and two angels as heraldic supporters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flag_of_Macau (348 words)

	Macau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Macau has played a unique and influential role in relations between China and the West, especially between the late 16th and 19th centuries.
		Macau prospered as a port and was the subject of repeated attempts by the Dutch to conquer it in the 17th century.
		Macau is 70 km southwest of Hong Kong and 145 km from Guangzhou.
	www.airandspace.org /encyclopedia/Macao (2142 words)

	Flag of The People's Republic of China Confessions @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		The other flag was very much the current-day PRC flag, but had the hammer and sickle in red, inside the largest golden star.
		The hammer and sickle in the flag, were it to survive, would also further complicate relations with the other four stars it represented (two smaller stars already represented the workers and the farmers; if the hammer (workers) and the sickle (farmers) were added once again to the flag, there could well be class inequalities.)
		The usage of the flag is governed by the Law of the National Flag of the People's Republic of China.
	www.launchbase.net /encyclopedia/Flag_of_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China (839 words)

	Flag of Macau: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		A flag is a piece of cloth flown from a pole or mast, usually intended for signaling or identification....
		Macau peninsula (pinyin: aomen bandao; portuguese: península de macau) is the oldest and most populous part of macau in the...
		The governor of macau was a portuguese colonial official who headed the executive branch of the colony of macau....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fl/flag_of_macau.htm (620 words)

	Macau City Guide - Home
		This is (a branch of) Macau's oldest restaurant (dating from 1903), but its three floors of dining have been renovated in upbeat modern Art Deco.
		Macau Museum - There's no better way to experience and to learn about Macau â€“ its culture, its history, and its people, than to pay a visit to the Museums of Macau, and be amazed by the richness of Macauâ€™s culture.
		The Macau Formula 3 Grand Prix is the single most important race in the Formula 3 season each year, a distinction which is the envy of circuits across the globe, most probably because the Macau circuit is one of the hardest circuits in the world because of the sharp turns and the narrow street roads.
	www.olamacau.com (902 words)

	Macau - Macau - Travel to China
		Macau prospered as a port and was a subject of repeated attempts by the NetherlandsDutch to conquer it in the 17th century.
		It refers to the northern part of the Macau peninsula, and the northern part of the Macau peninsula is situated near the border of China.
		Macau consists of Macau Peninsulaa peninsula, and the islands of Taipa and Coloane.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Macau (1774 words)

	ASIANOW - Macau officials have big dreams to transform small economy - December 17, 1999
		MACAU (CNN) -- Macau may be a small economy, but officials have some big dreams for the post-handover period.
		Macau's unemployment rate is hovering around 7 percent, and the city is staggering beneath a property glut that will take years to wear off.
		Macau, as a European territory, benefited from its quota excess to the European Union.
	edition.cnn.com /1999/ASIANOW/east/macau/stories/macau.economy (511 words)

	MACAU TRAVEL INFORMATION
		The city of Macau is built on the peninsula; two bridges of 2.5 kms and 4.5 kms respectively link it to its nearest island of Taipa, which in turn is joined to Coloane by a 2.2 km-long causeway.
		Macau also served as a vital base for the introduction of Christianity to China and Japan, an activity which provided the city with some of the most glorious, and tempestuous, moments in its history.
		Macau has proudly flown Portugal's flag continuously even when the Motherland's throne was occupied by a foreign king, in the 17th century.
	www.asiatravel.com /macau/macauinf.html (2847 words)

	ASIANOW - Will China clean up Macau's crime problem? - December 17, 1999
		MACAU (CNN) -- On December 20 another piece of China's puzzle will fit into place, bringing the nation's dream of reunification a step closer to reality.
		Macau, with an economy based largely on casinos, has been rocked in recent years by rising violence and turf wars between rival gangs trying to control protection rackets, loan-sharking and prostitution -- which is legal in Macau.
		Macau's apparent reliance on China doesn't bode well for the region, or the highly autonomous "one country, two systems" principle, suggests pro-democracy legislator Antonio Ng.
	edition.cnn.com /1999/ASIANOW/east/macau/stories/macau.crime (920 words)

	Image:Flag of Macau.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flag of Macau from the Open Clip Art website.
		Re-coloured to match a standard design from the Macau Government (http://www.safp.gov.mo/external/chin/apm/files/info/64/macau_flag.gif).
		This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Image:Flag_of_Macau.svg (195 words)

	Harvard Asia Pacific Review
		Macau acquired an autonomous city government modeled on the European example, which was very convenient for dealing sensibly with the local officials, but also prone to faction and dissent.
		From then on through the eighteenth century, Macau was a witness to and, in a number of ways, a participant in the world-historical phenomenon of the "Canton trade," propelled by China's continued hunger for silver and the increasing popularity of tea in northern Europe and North America.
		Macau was a passive spectator to the great drama of the Opium War, and its unique position as a European outpost was lost with the emergence after the war of the infant English colony on Hong Kong Island.
	hcs.harvard.edu /~hapr/summer00_tech/macau.html (2535 words)

	Macau - GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Appeals on decisions were heard by Macau's Supreme Court, which was established in 1992 with the power of final adjudication and the authority to decide in matters of administrative, fiscal, and customs law.
		Upon Macau's reversion to China, the executive offices were moved from Macau Government House temporarily to the Banco Tai Fung.
		Macau's seven deputies to the National People's Congress (NPC) are selected by an electoral conference; they attended their first session of the NPC in Beijing in March 2000.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-8309.html (1044 words)

	Macauhistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Macau is located in Eastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and China.
		Macau's ethnic groups are Chinese, Macanese (which is mixed Portuguese and Asian ancestry) and Portuguese.
		Macau's flag is light green with a lotus flower above a bridge and water in white, beneath an arc of five gold, five-pointed stars with one large star in the center of the arc and four smaller stars around it.
	tps.dpi.state.nc.us /connectasia/macau/macauhistory.htm (349 words)

	Macao Island municipality Provisional Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		The new flags of Macau follow the previous ones with an interesting balance of change and non-change: They both show emblems on a plain background, and the emblems themselves are elegant developments of the respective ancestor.
		Macao City's new flag is also blue, showing a symbol that replaces the angels with doves, supporting a key where the old emblem had the Portuguese shield of arms.
		Editorial Note: The provision of the law governing this flag and emblem was effective 20 December 1999 and was to expire on 31 December 2001 when the Provisional Municipal Council of Macao and the Provisional Municipal Council of the Islands would be replaced by the Institute of Civic and Municipal affairs.
	www.fotw.net /flags/mo-mau99.html (178 words)

	Macau Topic Center - Travel to China
		Flag of Macau Image:Mc-lgflag.JPGthumbrightFlag ratio: 2:3 The flag of Macau is light green with a lotus flower above a stylized...
		Macau Law Macau law is broadly based on PortugalPortuguese law, and therefore part of the civil law tradition of continental European legal systems.
		Macau Security Force On December 20, 1999, the various police force branches of Macau, under the jurisdiction of Security and Justice departments, with the excep...
	www.famouschinese.com /topic/Macau (739 words)

	About Macau - Travel, Maps, Flag and Information
		The administrative power (in Portuguese "poderes") over Macau was transferred to the People's Republic of China in 1999, and it is now a Special Administrative Region of the PRC.
		Macau's population consists of mostly Han Chinese with a minority (less than 5%) of Portuguese.
		That trade is weakening as the process of joining Macau to China continues (it is expected to be complete by 2050).
	www.canadiancontent.net /profiles/Macau.html (509 words)

	AllRefer.com - Macau - Macau \| Chinese Information Resource
		Macau (or Macao in non-Portuguese writings) is the Portuguese corruption of the Yue (Cantonese) dialect word Amakau (or Amagang in putonghua, the standard Chinese pronunciation based on Beijing Mandarin dialect).
		The A-Ma Temple was formally founded in Macau during the reign of the Wanli emperor (1573-1621) of the Ming Dynasty.
		Flag: The flag of the Macau Special Administrative Region has a green background with five yellow stars and a white lotus flower, bridge, and sea.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/macau/macau1.html (501 words)

	Macau - MaxTravelz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Macau (also spelt:Macao) (Chinese: 澳門, Aomen;) is a city located in southeast China, and was until 1999 administered by Portugal as an overseas province.
		Besides the city itself, Macau includes the islands of Taipa and Coloane, which are connected by bridges and a causeway.
		Metropole Hotel Macau is situated at the Commercial district of Macau, with the Ocean View and Taipa Bridge in sight.
	www.maxtravelz.com /macau.htm (1569 words)

	Macao
		The flag is light green with a white lotus above a stylized bridge and water and beneath an arc of five stars: one large and four smaller as on the flag of China.
		Those where the poles where the national flags flew Those at the sides where used to fly the "municipal" flag of Macao under Portuguese administration, that is, the flag of the Leal Senado and the flag of the Special Autonomous Region.
		Later on, when local midnight approached, the Portuguese flag and the flag of the city of Macao where lowered simultaneously under the sounds of the Portuguese national anthem.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/mo.html (635 words)

	ASIANOW - Chinese flag flies over Macau after Portugal cedes last of its empire - December 19, 1999
		MACAU (CNN) -- Portugal handed the gambling enclave of Macau back to China at midnight Sunday, bringing an end to 442 years of colonial rule.
		The red and green Portuguese flag came down on a stage in the building and was replaced by a red communist Chinese banner, to the applause of an audience that included Chinese entrepreneurs in Western business suits, Catholic clergy in fl vestments and Buddhist monks robed in orange.
		Most of the 430,000 residents of Macau, which is just 64 kilometers (40 miles) west of Hong Kong, are Chinese and the vast majority thought the departure of the Portuguese was long overdue.
	robots.cnn.com /ASIANOW/east/9912/19/macau.handover.04 (1431 words)

	Flag of Macau \| Macau's Flag.
		The flag of Macau Special Administrative Region has a green background with motifs of five stars, a lotus flower, the Nobre Carvalho Bridge and sea water.
		The lotus flower, which is loved by the people of Macau, blooming under the five stars signifies the prosperous future of Macau.
		The three petals of the lotus flower signify the three islands of which Macau is constituted: the Macau Peninsula, Taipa and Coloane.
	www.1uptravel.com /flags/largeflags/macau.html (169 words)

	Macau World Flags - Macau Flag
		China has promised that, under its "one country, two systems" formula, China's socialist economic system will not be practiced in Macau and that Macau will enjoy a high degree of autonomy in all matters except foreign and defense affairs for the next 50 years.
		Macau's economy four years after reversion to China remains one of the most open in the world.
		Much of Macau's textile industry may move to the mainland as the Multi-Fiber Agreement is phased out.
	www.amazingflags.com /worldflags/macau.shtml (370 words)

	RTE News - Chinese flag hoisted over Macau following hand-over from Portugal
		Following the departure of the Portuguese President, Jorge Sampaio, the Chinese President and the Chinese leadership went on to oversee the swearing in of chief executive Edmund Ho and the inaugural ceremony for the new Special Administrative Region's assembly.
		In a solemn ceremony on the stroke of midnight, the Portuguese flag was lowered for the last time over the enclave on the tip of southern China.
		The square was decorated for the occasion with huge boards displaying "Celebrating the Return of Macau" and a giant clock counting down the seconds before the hand-over at the stroke of midnight.
	www.rte.ie /news/1999/1219/macau.html (346 words)

	blogmacau.info - A blog about Macau :: Chronology of Macau's Transition (from Lusa and former Portuguese-Macau ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		The Macau Legislative Assembly is defined as an independent organ of the territory's body politic.
		A series of amendments include the setting-up of Macau's own judicial organisation system and an increase in the number of government under-secretaries from five to seven and lawmakers from 17 to 23.
		The Portuguese flag and the flag of the Macau Municipal Council are lowered for the last time.
	macau.blogharbor.com /blog/_archives/2005/2/17/328097.html (2002 words)

	Music of Macau - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Macau is a Special Administrative Region of the China.
		Musical institutions in the city include the Macau Orchestra and the Macau Conservatory, which has played an important role in music education in the area since its foundation in 1991.
		One of the most important Chinese musicians, Xian Xinghai, was born in Macau.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Music_of_Macau (187 words)

	Macau Travel Guide, Online Reservations for Hotels.
		Colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century, Macau was the first European settlement in the Far East.
		Pursuant to an agreement signed by China and Portugal on 13 April 1987, Macau became the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China on 20 December 1999.
		Macau enjoys a high degree of autonomy in all matters except foreign and defense affairs.
	www.eyeonmacau.com (334 words)

	AM Archive - Macau reclaimed by China
		COMPERE: As the red and gold flag of the People's Republic of China unfurled over Macau in the early hours of this morning, 450 years of Portuguese rule came to an end, as did the European colonisation of Asia.
		In Macau's new cultural centre, giant fans kept the Portuguese and Chinese flags furiously fluttering until the moment of truth.
		Honour guards approached the stage, the green flag of Portuguese Macau was lowered 20 seconds before midnight before the hoisting of the new lotus flower flag of the Macau special administrative region.
	www.abc.net.au /am/stories/s74450.htm (277 words)

	Macau Blogs & Travel Journals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-27)
		Macau is a beautiful place with really nice architecture.
		Arthur meets me in his car for a weekend in Macau - we head to ferry terminal (and back again for my passport) and we’re met in Macau by a stretch limo and we’re shown the sights briefly before the driver takes us to the hotel.
		Macau, China: Nov. 27-29 We travelled overnight on a bus full of beds (In all my travels, I had never encountered such a bus before).
	www.travelblog.org /Asia/Macau (934 words)

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