Going to Zhuhai/Macau

[Randy W]

An interesting video about Macao and The Macanese (no, NOT the Macarena)

 

 

Goldthread

Published on Mar 13, 2019

 

Macau is best known today for its casinos, but 20 years ago, it was a colony governed by the Portuguese, who had been there for over 400 years. Many of the Portuguese traders married Chinese women, and their children developed their own distinct food, culture, and language.

But now this mixed-race group, known as the Macanese, makes up less than 1 percent of Macau’s population, and their language, Patuá, is dying.

 

 

[Randy W]

from Goldthread on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/342615829579497/posts/704969833344093/

 

Goldthread

October 27 at 10:00 PM · Macau ·

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Macau is said to be home to the world’s first fusion cuisine, and the best way to try it is hitting the streets. Macanese food is a spice-packed blend of Chinese ingredients and Portuguese flavors, owing to the city’s colonial legacy. Here are five street snacks you have to try when in Macau.

For more info on these places and how to find them, check out the link here: gt4.life/macaustreetfood

 

Edited February 9, 2021 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Randy W]

from the SCMP - https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/994899767541827/

This is a fairly good video that touches both on Macau and the differences with Hong Kong

South China Morning Post

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Macau is marking 20 years since its return to China.

Read our full report: https://sc.mp/cimar

Chinese President Xi Jinping holds up ‘one country, two systems’ as only way forward for Hong Kong and Macau

• President says the system under which both cities are ruled can work in the long run, ‘as long as we are committed to it and act on it’
• Xi also warns against foreign interference in either of the former European colonies

 

 

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In a subsequent 30-minute speech, he summarised the successful implementation of the one country, two systems principle in Macau in four points, and listed four other hopes for the Macau government. His remarks were widely interpreted as an indirect but obvious “to-do” list for Hong Kong, which has been rocked by six months of often-violent anti-government protests.

 

Among his audience at the ceremony were Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor and her senior officials, who are still struggling to come up with a solution to end the political crisis and social unrest first triggered by the now-withdrawn extradition bill.

 

“The executive branch, legislature and judiciary of the Macau SAR have upheld the central authorities’ overall jurisdiction over the SAR while ensuring the SAR’s high degree of autonomy,” Xi said.

 

“They have resolutely stood by the red line of the one-China principle and earnestly safeguarded the power held by the central authorities and the standing of the Basic Law.”

 

The “red line” was Xi’s reference to Beijing’s zero tolerance for independence advocacy in Hong Kong.

 

Xi’s third point was that the people of Macau had always kept both the country’s overall interests and the city’s own interests in mind.

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After the communist-led riots in December 1966 in Macau, the real power was left largely in the hands of pro-Beijing business leaders and trade unions.

 

Xi left Macau at around 4.30pm after inspecting troops at the People’s Liberation Army barracks, where he called on them to contribute to the successful implementation of one country, two systems.

 

State television reported that anti-riot and counterterrorism units in full gear were on parade – personnel not featured two years ago when the Chinese president reviewed the Hong Kong garrison.

 

 

Edited February 9, 2021 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Randy W]

An new combined Zhuhai/Macau border checkpoint

Xinhua Headlines: New port opens to boost interconnectivity in Greater Bay Area

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Hengqin Port, the new port to facilitate travel between #Macao and Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong province, was officially put into use Tuesday. It is a new step to boost development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

https://vodpub2.v.news.cn/publish/20200819/XxjwsmE007036_20200818_CBMFN0A001.mp4

 

 

https://www.facebook.com/shenzhenpages/posts/pfbid02hZTaXt8N4VWcArXkfeSKHuVcUsyMuKvaz6tAU6GEbLH1uFZzkbp4c3UCjWpJzPLcl

 

Edited December 29, 2022 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Randy W]

China issues plan for building Guangdong-Macao cooperation zone

China has announced a plan to boost development in the Macao Special Administrative Region. A new cooperation zone will be set up between Macao and neighboring city of Zhuhai in Guangdong Province.

from CGTN

 

[Randy W]

The Zhuhai Airshow is an annual display, except for last year (2020).

China displayed its military tech at the Zhuhai Airshow with new aircraft, including the 'Guizhou Soar Dragon' drone.

from the SCMP on Facebook 
https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/398642738318116/

That video doesn't seem to want to be embedded, so here is one from CNA (Singapore?)

 

Edited September 30, 2021 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Randy W]

Ruins of St. Paul

from China Highlights

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The Ruins of St. Paul is the site of St. Paul Church. Construction of the Catholic church began in 1602. It was the greatest of Macau's churches, but it burned down in 1835, leaving only its very large and beautiful fa?ade and the front stairway. It has an interesting history.

The church was built in 1602 adjoining the Jesuit College of St. Paul that was the first Western college in the Far East. Missionaries such as Matteo Ricci and Adam Schall studied Chinese at the university before serving at the Ming Court in Beijing as astronomers and mathematicians.

The church was made of wood, and it was brilliantly decorated and furnished. The facade of carved stone was built in 1620-27 by Japanese Christian craftsmen who were refugees after the religion was wiped out in Japan. It was built under the direction of Italian Jesuit Carlo Spinola.

The Jesuits were then expelled, and the college was used as an army barracks. In 1835, a fire destroyed the college and the body of the church. The surviving facade rises in 4 colonnaded tiers, and is covered with carvings and statues that illustrate the early days of the Catholic Church in Asia.

There are statues of the Virgin and the Saints, symbols of the Garden of Eden and the crucifixion, and carvings of angels and the devil, a Chinese dragon and Japanese chrysanthemum, a Portuguese sailing ship, and inscriptions written in Chinese characters to warn people.

 

 

 

 

 

[Randy W]

Macao (1952) Dir: Josef von Sternberg and Nicholas Ray, Starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Gloria Grahame

https://archive.org/details/macao-1952

Macao is a 1952 black-and-white film noir adventure directed by Josef von Sternberg and Nicholas Ray. It is set in the exotic locale of Macao, at the time a Portuguese colony on the coast of China. The drama features Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, and Gloria Grahame.

Edited December 29, 2022 by Randy W (see edit history)

[Randy W]

‘What else have we got?”: Macau questions role as casino hub after painful Covid downturn 

While the Chinese government and the Macau administration have been making efforts to increase non-gambling revenue and attractions, the city is still struggling to reduce its reliance on casinos.

from the SCMP on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/734513144853682/

 

 

 

 

[Randy W]

This bridge is actually quite a ways (20 miles) inland from the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge, and has the advantage of not requiring passports or different vehicle registrations, so it may turn out to be much more usable than that other one as far as getting around in the Pearl River Delta area.

This 15-mile, $6.7B bridge is a symbol of China’s ambitions, and its problems

from CNN

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To some observers, the building of these giant bridges in such close proximity is testament both to China’s growing ambitions on the global stage and the problems it faces in realizing them.

Like its sister bridge in Hong Kong, when the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge opens to traffic next year after eight years of construction, it will form a central plank in China’s master plan to develop its Greater Bay Area, one of the world’s largest and most populated urban areas, into an economic and technological hub that can rival San Francisco, New York or Tokyo.

 

 

 

[Randy W]

Light Up Macao showcases the city as a global creative hub

In partnership with: Visit Macao

A citywide display of 36 light installations, 20 interactive installations and three projection-mapping shows on historic buildings, created by local and international talents, highlights an entirely different aspect of Macau. Read more: https://sc.mp/9m0o

https://www.facebook.com/scmp/videos/2065967347136114/

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Edited January 19 by Randy W (see edit history)