Vegas-style casinos invade China
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MACAU, China -- Glittery Las Vegas-style gambling has arrived in seedy Macau, promising new charms for China's inveterate players, and this former Portuguese colony may never be the same.
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A financial portal is born in China.
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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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MACAO President Hu Jintao of China arrived here Sunday for celebrations of the fifth anniversary of this territory&#39;s transfer from Portugal to China, proclaiming the small gambling enclave a success under Beijing&#39;s rule.
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Thanks to a national passion for gambling in mainland China, where it is illegal, Macao is on its way to establishing itself as the global leader in that industry.
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Indian gambling pulled in &#36;18.5 billion in 2004, nearly double the take for Nevada's gambling industry, as tribal casinos boomed ahead.
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Buoyed by hundreds of millions of dollars in annual profits from their gambling businesses, Indian tribes are looking farther afield for places to invest their casino wealth.
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With roaring growth expected to continue this year, Macao is poised to overtake all of Nevada as the biggest gambling territory in the world.
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Looking to gain a foothold in the potentially lucrative United Kingdom gambling market, Caesars Entertainment says it will construct a Las Vegas-style hotel-casino in London.
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The locals casino operator posts impressive fourth-quarter results.
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MGM Mirage Inc , the world's No.2 casino operator, will open 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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It seemed like an idea whose time had come and gone, but with Pennsylvania and New York State poised to compete for Atlantic City&#39;s gambling billions, the idea of adding
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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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Manchester is the surprise choice to be the location for Britain's first Las Vegas-style super-casino.
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A sprawling resort rises up in the middle of the Nevada desert, replete with lush golf courses, a man-made lake and gondolas â-ut don&#39;t bother looking for this oasis on the Las Vegas Strip.
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An upgraded Las Vegas pool scene helps put the sin back in Sin City.
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Kalashnikovs checked at door Not to be outdone by the establishment of the American University of Iraq in the northern Iraqi city of Suleimaniya, a ballsy Russian businessman, Vitaly Kouznetzov, has helped bring another, sexier, slice of American life to the Iraqi Kurds: he's brought a touch of Las Vegas to that same Kurdish cultural capital with the launch of an American-style casino. Take that, al-Qaeda.â¦