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TIMELESS APPEAL

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The landmark Ruins of St. Paul’s.

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SEA CHANGE

A fisherman casting his net off Coloane’s Cheoc Van Beach.

bridge spanning the silty waters between the Macau Peninsula and Taipa Island took shape in the 1970s, few could have envisaged the project would kick off a decades-long construction spree. These days, three soaring viaducts carry traffic over the same channel. A fourth link has just been completed. And that’s notPearl River Estuary to Hong Kong.

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