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Fireworks spark explosive passion

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While many would see a career travelling the world competing in fireworks competitions as pretty explosive, for Jamie Wang, it's just work.

Jamie and her husband Nd arrived in Macau last week with an 11-strong team from Taiwan for the 19th annual Macau International Fireworks Display Contest.

Second generation fireworks technicians, the couple own Santai Fireworks and have competed throughout Europe and Asia. Nd started working with fireworks when he was 18 years old.

Their team won the Macau event in 2003 and came third in 2005.

Jamie, 35, is in charge of choreographing the music for the show and Nd, 33, controls the fireworks.

One display takes about four days to set up and the fireworks and music are controlled using computers.

Jamie said the team began preparations for the Macau show about three months ago and was confident of doing well.

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