March 25, 2008Hot on the heels of our precious invitation from Melco PBL to attend the City of Dreams Topping-out Ceremony on 1 April 2008 at 12.10pm, comes the surprising news about James Packer’s Crown Macau enjoying a huge turn-around, making it the busiest casino in the world in terms of betting volume!
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March 23, 2008It doesnt get any bigger than Celine Dion. She’s been entertaining Vegas at Caesars for years, and now she has finally hit Macau’s Cotai Strip at the one and only Venetian Macao. The afterparty was almost as good as the actual event, as you can see from this Destination Macau video.
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March 23, 2008I come across these types of articles every so often. Nothing really new, but still interesting nonetheless. This one offers a good recap of everything happening here, and also reminds us of how superstitous Asian gambler are:
“It’s more all or nothing with Chinese gamblers,” Green said. “They generally have a pretty determined view that [...]
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March 22, 200838,000 hotel rooms. 9,000 gaming tables. 25,000 slot machines. These are all huge and important figures, but we never hear about one of the most important metrics in Macau. Here’s a hint 759,000 square metres. What can it be? Roads? Gaming space? Shopping? Maybe coastline? None of the above - its greenery! Yes greenery.
There are [...]
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March 18, 2008From the terrace of my apartment on the 25th floor of One Grantai the whole of the Cotai Strip glitters below, from the subtle ochre shades of the Venetian Macao reflected in a huge lake, to the beckoning laser lights of Macau Studio City scorching across the night sky 1.3-km further down the Strip.
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March 18, 2008It has been a year of activity and inactivity, events and non-events, giddy successes and flops, and most of all, lessons on what to do or not to in Macau.Stanley Ho’s SJM unveiled its answer to the new operators, the Grand Lisboa, in February 2007. Then came Crown Macau in April 2007, the gargantuan Venetian Macao in September 2007, followed by MGM Grand Macau in December 2007, followed lastly by Stanley Ho’s Ponte 16 Casino on 1 February 2008.
Some readers have raised eyebrows on the lack of commentary on my part on the new SJM properties, saying that I focused purely on the new entrants to the market.
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March 17, 2008MacauDailyBlog.com speculates on the construction timeline of the Oceanus Hotel and Casino. Here’s a snippet:
So it looks like that the massive Oceanus Casino project can start the demolition works of the old New Yaohan store around June, and also prepare for the imminent close down and demolition of the Darling Massage Parlour and the [...]
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March 17, 2008Macanese F3 driver Rodolfo Avila managed to get a podium result, finishing second in his first ever GT race weekend at Zhuhai International Circuit. The 21 years old driver was invited by Frestech FRD Team to drive one of the team’s Ferrari 360 Modena Challenge during the Asian GT Championship round of the Pan Delta Super Racing Festival (Spring Event).
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