After being suspended for 11 years, the Miss Macao Beauty Pageant will return to the city in September this year, said the co-organizers of the pageant, G&L Group and Sun Innovation, on Wednesday.

The winner of the local beauty pageants will represent Macao to compete in the forthcoming Miss International Beauty Pageant, to be held in Macao in November this year, the organizers said at a press conference.

The beauty pageants will further enhance Macao's international reputation, and the government has always been supporting and encouraging activities that help boost Macao's tourism development, said Joao Costa Antunes, director of Tourist Office of the Macao Special Administrative Region government.

(Xinhua News Agency, March 13, 2008)