Las Vegas Adapts to Reap Chinese New Year Bounty
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The 15-day celebration has become one of the cityâs most profitable events, drawing thousands of Asian and Asian-American visitors.
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The philosophy at Tao Las Vegas is at once high concept â multiple opportunities for eating and drinking under one roof â and blue collar.
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LAS VEGAS -- With big games from its three biggest stars, first place came impressively for the United States.
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Las Vegas was the place to be on 7/7/07, and a TIME photographer captured couples tying the knot on a day of luck
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Times Square is crammed with tourists, and not just for New Year's Eve. These days, they're eager to gawk at the glittering lights of Broadway and visit attractions like Madame Tussauds Wax Museum and the MTV studios.
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Not much ever gets in the way of the gambling in Las Vegas, but MTV and its Video Music Awards elbowed it aside for a while Sunday night at the Palms Casino.
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Las Vegas bills itself as "the   wedding capital of the world," but late-night revelers who   decide they want to tie the knot now must wait until morning.
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MGM Mirage, the world's No.2 casino  operator, opens a 600-room, Las Vegas-style resort in Macau on  Tuesday, raising the stakes in a Chinese gambling haven  increasingly crowded by global players.
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Las Vegas, which will host this yearâs N.B.A. All-Star Game next weekend, wants to showcase itself as worthy of becoming a full-time major league city.
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December 26, 2004 -- Three years after 9/11, partygoers are making Times Square the top destination spot to ring in the new year, according to a survey of Priceline.
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Three years ago, as Paris Hilton was about to turn 24, the celebutante got a sense of her worth to the nightclub industry in Las Vegas. She had celebrated her previous three birthdays at Light, the Bellagio hotel-casino nightclub run by the Light Group. But for her 24th, another company swooped in with an offer that trumped the standard private jet to and from L.A., a free stay at a luxury suite, a sumptuous dinner and, of course, free booze.
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Las Vegas Sands says it is looking forward to working with Malaysia's Genting International, which was awarded Singapore's second gaming licence earlier this month, a report has said.
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Las Vegas Sands Corp., owner of The Venetian in Nevada, won a hotly contested license Friday to build Singapore&#039;s first casino, which could be the world&#039;s costliest casino resort project by the time it opens in 2009.
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Casino giant MGM Mirage is building a $4bn gambling resort complex in the centre of Las Vegas.
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The world&#39;s biggest casino opens in Macau  on Tuesday, the most ambitious throw of the dice yet in a $24  billion effort to build a Las Vegas-style &quot;neon alley&quot; in this  once-sleazy Chinese gambling enclave.
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The Philippine capital is one of the world's biggest party towns and New Year's Eve will be marked by the usual street fiestas, dances in upmarket hotels and much revelry in malls and bars.
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The 124-year-old Hong Kong Jockey Club, whose racetrack revenues are one of the secrets of the territory's economic success, is facing a decidedly modern threat: glitzy casinos being built by Las Vegas operators in nearby Macau.