April 1, 2008PBL Entertainment (Macau) Limited topped out the Hard Rock hotel and the main podium of its mega-project City of Dreams in Cotai, Macau today.
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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!
City of Dreams Complex
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February 4, 2008Melco PBL Entertainment (Macau) Limited, a developer and owner of gaming and entertainment resort facilities, announced that its luxury hotel and casino “Crown Macau“, has won the “Best Casino Interior Design Award” in the 1st “International Gaming Awards 2008″ recently held in London, UK.
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January 18, 2008It appears that investors have for the last 3 months have been seriously dumping Macau Casino related stocks, you just have to look at the numbers below to give you some indication. The question remain will they ever recover again to previous highs? It may be a blessing in disguise that Stanley Ho’s IPO has been blocked after all!
Read full story :: Macau Related Casino Stocks Dropping Over 55%
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January 17, 2008Melco PBL continues to lose favour with investors, having lost 50 per cent of its value in the past three months. The slide continued in the US, when the shares fell a further 3.8 per cent to close at $US9.95, slightly above a record low $US9.49 last Tuesday.
The fall has been attributed to various factors including uncertainty surrounding predicted earnings due to a flurry of casino and hotel openings squeezing revenues, a $US400 million ($452 million) shortfall in development funds, and fears of Chinese authorities changing gambling policies arbitrarily, according to the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday. Melco PBL has also delayed the final purchase of the land for the third project on the Macau Peninsula, Trinity, and says it is unlikely to secure the land until the middle of this year.
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November 23, 2007Nine days after registering his presidential exploratory committee last November, Rudolph Giuliani appeared in Singapore to help a Las Vegas developer make a pitch for a $3.5 billion casino resort. Though the bid ultimately failed, and there was nothing illegal about the involvement, it drew Giuliani into a complex partnership with the family of a controversial Hong Kong billionaire who has ties to the regime of North Korea’s Kim Jong Il and has been linked to international organized crime by the U.S. government.
Giuliani’s participation as a security consultant in the Singapore gambling venture illustrates the challenge he faces while attempting to win the Republican presidential nomination with a law-and-order message while maintaining a far-flung, international business portfolio, an unknown portion of which remains in the shadows.
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November 21, 2007Melco PBL Entertainment (Macau) Limited, a developer and owner of casino gaming and entertainment resort facilities focused exclusively on the Macau market, today reported financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2007. Lawrence Ho, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chairman of Melco PBL Entertainment, commented, “The third quarter was a transitional period for Crown Macau as the property became fully activated from late July.
Hold adjusted property EBITDA has grown each month during the third quarter, and we are excited by our continued progress in expanding the business. VIP rolling chip volume has shown excellent growth, progressing from US$1.375 billion in July to over US$2.5 billion for the month of October. Based on our estimation for the month of October, Crown Macau’s combined VIP and mass table game market share of the whole market was approximately 8%, continuing the positive growth trend and despite the introduction of a major new entrant into the market.
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November 3, 2007As expected costs of the City of Dreams casino project continue to blowout, now by a whopping $US600 million! The estimated outlay is now $US2.1 billion compared with the previously reported $US1.85 billion in June and $US1.5 billion last December. We can foresee further cost overruns happening prior to the expected opening in the middle of 2008.
By now James Packer must surely call this the ‘City of Nightmares’.
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