More than 1.5 million international visitors arrived in Macau in the first six months of 2008, up 46.5 per cent on the same 2007 period, according to the Macau Government Tourist Office. This figure does not include the 8.8 million mainland China residents who visited in the same period. Arrivals from East and Southeast Asian countries rose most notably, with growth ranging from 29 per cent to 82 per cent.

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