Macau on 1st day of its ‘normalised period’ after recent COVID-19 outbreak

China's Ma Long and Olympic champion Chen Meng are set to confront compatriots Wang Chuqin and Wang Manyu in the men's and women's singles finals respectively at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Champions Macao tomorrowIn today's men's singles semifinals, Ma defeated France's Alexis Lebrun 4-1 (11-8, 7-11, 11-5, 11-8, 11-8).Ma survived huge pressure from the French teenager, who had upset world No. 1 Fan Zhendong of China yesterday."This was our first encounter. I had faith to strive for

Macau’s 144 hotels recorded 1.26 million guests last month, a year-on-year decline of 3.8 percent, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced yesterday. The hotel industry’s number of available rooms remained unchanged at 45,000 in August. A DSEC statement pointed out that last month’s number of guests reached 99.7 percent of the figure recorded in the same month of pre-pandemic 2019. Foreign guests rose by 21.0 percent to 73,000, among whom those from South Korea