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Southeast Asia places. They are eager to learn and experience locals’ way of life. Conversely, respondents with lower monthly income (less than HK$15,000) and lower educational level (high and primary school) travelled to nearby destinations including Macau, Guilin and Taipei. These destinations provide high level of cultural and environmental similarities like home, they allow tourists to be easily…

convert China into Christianity. Xavier died waiting for permission to land. Prior to the reductions, there was only limited missionary work to Macau, which was an autonomous…

Creative and Critical Thinking Self-reflection Paper POON CHIU LAM 12000625 For me, I am a creative and talkative person. I always have some weird ideas and like to make them as some jokes during chit chat with friends. I though that creativity could only be fun and entertainment in my part of life. When I first heard of the name of this course--Creative and Critical Thinking, I thought that the part of creative thinking was really my course. I used to think that creativity was the key of…

On February 13th, 2017 half-brother of Kim Jong-un, Kim Jong-nam was assassinated at Malaysia's Kuala Lumpur airport. While waiting for his flight to Macau, Kim Jong-nam reportedly said that “two unidentified women had swabbed or had wiped his face with a liquid and that he felt dizzy" to a customer service desk. He was then taken to a hospital in an ambulance but died on the way. The North Korean government has come out saying that this was no accident, and was organized by the South Korean…

The New York Times article, "The Jeweler Wallace Chan: 'The Stone Is Me'" is about a Hong Kong jeweler and his works. The article talks about how Wallace Chan became a well known international jeweler. Wallace started working with jewelry at the age of 8 when his family moved to Hong Kong from the Fujian Province. He was performing repetitive tasks like spooling yarn and assembling cheap decorative goods. He was working at a young age because his family needed to money to live in order to…

which how I started it to enjoy studying different cultures and behave like a historian. As a kid I've always thought about how history repeats itself and everything has a path ,it depends on how you change it. There was also this Catholic School in Macau that I went to ever since I was a kid ,But every now and then I've always question myself not that what we believe in but why we believe in them and I've always been told that “God works in mysterious ways that human cannot possibly understand”…

The first opium war, which commenced on the 18th of March, 1839 and ended on the 29th of August, 1842. The First Opium War was fought between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and the Qing Imperium. This war came about due to their conflicting opinions on trade, additionally occurred due to the factor of the extinction of opium. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the request for Chinese goods (particularly silk, porcelain, and tea) in the European market engendered a trade inequity because the…

Australia • China-born people in Australia predominately speak Mandarin, Cantonese and Chinese at home (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011). • The majority of China-born people speak English well or very well (67.1%), whilst approximately 32% do not speak English well or at all (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2011). China • Mandarin is the official language of the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan. • Chinese people from Hong Kong and the Guangdong province of the People’s Republic of…

Macau police arrested 17 in people for their alleged involvement with the illegal transactions, but just day’s later money was still moving freely throughout the pawn shops. “Of thirteen shops polled, four would not let people use credit cards to get cash…

My Environmental Ethics Growing up in a highly capitalized area, Macau, and being taught the idea that wealth is the ruler of power and status, I learned that I would have to find a job with decent extra benefit and high salary in the future. Until the time I have taken geography and moral education classes in my high school, I started to consider a bigger picture when I was thinking about public policy and my decision making. I knew that what I did could affect anyone around me and possibly…