Playboy announces big casino and shops in Macao Studio City
After selling men’s clothes and accessories in China for almost 20 years, Playboy Enterprise Inc will open a 40,000 square-foot entertainment complex, including gaming facilities and bunny-suited waitresses, in Macao in late 2009.
Playboy Mansion Macao will include dining, entertainment and retail shops, company Chairman and Chief Executive Christie Hefner said in Macao yesterday. It will […]
Macau economy surges as mainland gamblers crowd casinos
MACAU - On a Monday morning the gaming halls of Macau’s newest casino, the Grand Lisboa, are packed as punters from the Chinese mainland crowd the baccarat tables.
Most are dressed in jeans and trainers, but an abundance of luxury brand shopping bags reveal their rising spending power.
Chinese consumers and gaming liberalisation have made Macau one […]
Casino king dies at 90, leaving behind $22b
Lim Goh Tong, Malaysia’s third-richest man who turned a forested hilltop into a thriving casino resort, died Tuesday, leaving behind a diverse business empire worth $22 billion.
Lim, the founder of Genting Group of companies, “passed away peacefully,” said a brief statement by his son, Lim Kok Thay, who took over from his father as Genting’s […]
Casino colossus
The newly opened $2.4 billion Venetian Macao Resort has joined other casino groups in the city trying to expand as quickly as it can to meet the growing thirst for leisure and entertainment by increasingly affluent spenders in the region.
They are making big bets to turn Macao from a gambling paradise into a family entertainment […]
Gambling site for low-budget punters
An online casino has caught on with Thai teens on shoestring budgets.The website - www.holiday-palace.com - sounds like the name of a popular casino in the Cambodian border town of Poipet, across from Sa Kaew’s Aranyaprathet district.
A member of the site from Chiang Mai said that the virtual casino offered three kinds of games […]
Macau’s biggest corruption trial
Hong Kong - Macau’s biggest corruption trial began Monday as a former senior official appeared in court accused of corruptly amassing 100 million US dollars during his seven years in office. Ex-Secretary for Transport and Public Works in the southern Chinese gambling resort Ao Man-long faces 76 counts of taking bribes, money laundering and abuse […]
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