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May 23, 2012

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Sands China leads Cotai walk-in mass market

(via MacauBusiness.com)

Comment Union Gaming says Sands China Ltd’s properties in Cotai are the ones attracting the most walk-in visitors.

Macau Labor Shortage Seen as Hurdle for Casino Expansion

(via Bloomberg Businessweek)

Comment Macau’s $34 billion gaming industry has an obstacle. With 28 million visitors and 21 percent economic growth last year, Macau is confronting a severe labor shortage.

Vegas train loan shouldn’t be Solyndra victim, chief says

(via Bloomberg)

Comment The U.S. high-speed rail line that’s closest to construction deserves a $5.5 billion federal loan that shouldn’t be held up by backlash from Solyndra LLC’s bankruptcy, DesertXpress Enterprises LLC executives said.

Manny Pacquiao — Congressman Pacquiao — rips President Obama for stance on gay marriage

(via Yahoo! Sports)

Comment It's not too often a boxer blasts the President of the United States, but it's also not too common that an active fighter gets elected to Congress. But boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao, a freshman congressman from Sarangani Province in the Philippines, laid into President Obama because of Obama's support for gay marriage.

Vintage Vegas: rare photos of a desert boomtown

(via Life)

Comment Of all the major destination towns in the U.S., Las Vegas might be the most perfectly, unashamedly transparent. No other city in North America, after all — and perhaps no other city in the world — has for so long been so identified with one pursuit: namely, the heart-pounding, more-often-than-not-futile hunt for the improbable, near mythic Big Score.

Vegas sign a tourist attraction in its own right

(via LA Times)

Comment It sits along a stretch of median on the less-glamorous south end of this city's glitzy gambling Strip, a stubborn holdover from another era.

Bryce Harper hits first Major League career home run

(via The Washington Post)

Comment Bryce Harper has done everything in his career fast, and now that includes the first home run trot of his career.

Las Vegas casinos gamble on online partners with a past

(via Reuters)

Comment To prime itself for the U.S. debut of legal online poker, MGM Resorts International, owner of such Las Vegas Strip monuments as the MGM Grand, the Bellagio and the Mirage, wanted a partner that knew the ropes.

Cantor Fitzgerald hits Las Vegas on big sports bet

(via SF Gate)

Comment In his ground-level office on a back street of Las Vegas, Lee Amaitis is worlds away from the 15-story building in London where he served as the second in command at Cantor Fitzgerald until 2008. Rather than looking at the Tower of London on the River Thames from his office, he now has a view of men entering and leaving ...

MGM Resorts readying Internet casino game

(via SunHerald.com)

Comment MGM Resorts International will launch a casino-themed Internet game by June, James Murren, chairman of MGM Resorts International, said at Thursday’s Southern Gaming Summit at the Coast Convention Center.

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