In Macao, for instance, prostitution is rampant.
Macao and Monaco, for example, are among the densest communities on earth, yet their roots lie at opposite ends of the economic spectrum.
Macao's Portuguese administration is investigating, for example, whether to build the territory's first airport, which would enable the electronics industry to improve its competitiveness by supplying parts in one day.
No place for Hong Kong, for example, although neighbouring Macao, with its teeming casinos, came in at number 20.
For example, unlike Hong Kong, Macao citizens generally embraced the new political relationship with Beijing after 1999 while exercising substantial local autonomy.
For example, 50% of Macao's government revenues come from taxes paid by casinos there, which are patronized almost exclusively by Hong Kong Chinese.
In 1994, for example, authorities in Hong Kong and Macao apprehended five North Korean diplomats and trade-mission members carrying about $430,000 in bills that turned out to be counterfeits of the supernote variety.
Nonetheless, the Portuguese administration seems far more colonial: All of Macao's judges are Portuguese who speak no Chinese, for example, and there is not a single Chinese lawyer in the territory.
For example, in 2005, the Treasury Department moved against an obscure bank based in Macao that handled transactions for the North Korean government, a campaign widely regarded as one of the most successful efforts to squeeze the North.
