Ahead of the Bell: Analyst upbeat on Macau - Yahoo Finance
NEW YORK (AP) -- Macau's strong gross gaming revenue growth will likely outweigh concerns about China's tightening credit efforts, an analyst said Tuesday. Gabriel Chan of Credit Suisse said in a client note that the Chinese government will only be ...
Macau casino tycoon mum on organized-crime links - Monsters and Critics
Hong Kong- Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho faced allegations from US casino regulators Thursday that he had links with organized crime in mainland China. The 88-year-old billionaire has been accused of allowing criminal gangs to 'operate and thrive' inside his casinos in Macau, also called the Las
Casino VIP rooms opened door to gangsters in Macau ... - Monsters and Critics
Hong Kong - Private VIP rooms in casinos provided Chinese gangsters with a way into Macau, according to a report by US casino regulators. These rooms, where bets can reach hundreds of thousands of US dollars and high rollers gamble away huge amounts ...
MGMM to drop US casino for Macau pal - Himalayan Times
... casino resort to settle a fight with US gaming regulators over the company’s Macau business partner. MGM said it will sell its half stake in the Borgata hotel-casino ... cut ties with Pansy Ho, daughter of gaming tycoon Stanley Ho, after ...
MGM Mirage makes agreement to sell its 50% of Borgata ... - Transworld News
... of New Jersey's Division of Gaming Enforcement to place its 50% stake in Atlantic City's Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in a divestiture trust after the regulatory group found problems with its partner in Macau .MGM Mirage trades on the “New York ...
UPDATE 1-Casino shares dip ahead of Macau official's ... - Reuters
LOS ANGELES, March 15 (Reuters) - The shares of casino companies operating in Macau fell on Monday on wariness that the Chinese city's new chief executive could unveil a 2010 policy plan that caps its fast-growing gambling industry. The address by ...
Too Far to Turn Back - Newsweek
In Asia, huge new resorts in Singapore and Macau are hoping to prove immune to hard times. Singapore's new Resorts World Sentosa and Marina Bay Sands, set to open in April, will offer the island's first casinos, along with massive multibillion-dollar ...
MGM Mirage to sell its stake in Atlantic City’s ... - Las Vegas Sun
... ceremony for an MGM Mirage casino in 2005 in Macau. MGM Mirage today said it entered into a settlement agreement with the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement under which it will sell its 50 percent stake in the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa ...
MGM puts its chips on Macau casino - Asia Times
HONG KONG - There's no mistaking the aroma of life's winners at play that infuses the Borgata. At this casino resort the perfumed rich sip drinks under multicolored Dale Chihuly glass chandeliers as waitresses in skimpy black dresses flit by. On the ...
Regulators Say MGM Mirage Knew Its Macau Partner Had ... - Wall Street Journal
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.—New Jersey's casino enforcement agency said MGM Mirage knowingly signed on an unfit partner as it tried to gain a foothold in Macau after Chinese officials denied it a license in the fast-growing gambling mecca. "From the ...
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Obama appeals to Iranians in online video
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Pope's Irish letter faces critical Catholics
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Little fanfare for 7th anniversary of war in Iraq
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Losing the battle to keep female flesh off Afghan TV
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Pakistan wants recognition for terror fight
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