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A review on historic building conservation: A comparison between Hong Kong and Macau systems

open access: yesRenewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017
Concerns on historic buildings emerged with accelerating urbanization and increasing population of Hong Kong have been raised by the public since 1970s, this has recently been increasing concerned due to several failures of historic buildings ...
Ivan W H Fung, Vivian W Y Tam
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On Income Convergence among China, Hong Kong and Macau

The World Economy, 2006
Hong Kong and Macau were reunited with China in the late 1990s as two special administrative regions (SARs). Over the last half century, they were China's good examples of economic development, windows of openness and investors. Owing to historical reasons, China lagged far behind Hong Kong and Macau in terms of per capita incomes.
Chun Kwok Lei, Shujie Yao
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Land reclamation in Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau

GeoJournal, 1991
The spatial and temporal significance of land reclamation from the sea in relation to the development of the three SE Asian small coastal territories of Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau are examined and compared. In all three territories the rate of reclamation has been an index of the rate of economic development.
Glaser, Rüdiger   +2 more
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Neonatal screening in Hong Kong and Macau.

The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health, 2005
For the implementation of the neonatal screening program, the following factors have to be considered for the selection of conditions to be screened and evaluation of outcome. These include the factors pertaining to public health impact, availability and acceptability of the screening system, and other social issues involved in the implementation.
S T S, Lam, M L, Cheng
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English in Hong Kong and Macau

Abstract This chapter provides an overview of the status, functions, and features of English in Hong Kong and Macau. These two geographically adjacent societies share an overlapping past as colonial territories of Britain and Portugal, and today both are Special Administrative Regions (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China and home to ...
Kingsley Bolton, Andrew J. Moody
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Chapter 6. Hong Kong And Macau

2006
The restorations of Hong Kong by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1997 and of Macau by the Portuguese Republic in 1999 to the People's Republic of China (the PRC) were the least disruptive contemporary successions. In both transfers, international commercial obligations and arrangements were only affected minimally and ...
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A Paradigm of Autonomy: The Hong Kong and Macau SARs

Contemporary Southeast Asia, 1996
Hong Kong and Macau have become in their retrun to Mainland China Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China. Their creation is based on the policy One Country, Two Systems lauched by China's former reformer leader Deng Xiao Ping aiming to ease the two century-old extraterritorial European dominos in Asia, using thir capitalist ...
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THE CHANGING GEOGRAPHY OF TAIWAN, HONG KONG AND MACAU

2002
During the last quarter century Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau have been amongst the most dynamic economic entities in the world. Taiwan and Hong Kong, along with South Korea and Singapore have become known as the ‘four little dragons’ of Eastern Asia. Macau has not been included within this select grouping presumably because of its small size.
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