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Macau ponders future as tourists and gamblers return

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Macau's streets have been bustling in the run-up to the Lunar New Year, but it is far from business as usual as the Chinese casino hub wrestles with questions about its future as Beijing pushes the former Portuguese colony to diversify its casino-reliant economy.

Added on the 23/01/2023 09:35:42 - Copyright : AFP EN

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