Okada bets to win with fine dining and casinos Reuters | HONG KONG (Reuters) - Kazuo Okada, the Japanese billionaire engaged in a fierce legal battle with Las Vegas casino tycoon Steve Wynn, is diversifying his pachinko company with a string of his own restaurants and is negotiating to build a casino res...
More casinos can save tourism: Packer Canberra Times | Australia's flagging tourism industry can be saved by attracting the Chinese middle class to large casinos, Crown chairman James Packer says. | Mr Packer said recognising the Chinese middle class was as important as recognising the internet. | "It'...
Former Portuguese territory coins it in as casino for the Chinese Irish Times | JOAN SCALES | MACAU LETTER: The region, handed back to Bejing over a decade ago, has boomed and drawn tourist wealth as infrastructure develops | ON THE highest peak in Macau, a 20m white marble statue of Ah Ma, the goddess of the sea, wishes the M...
Casinos look to play it safe Hong Kong Standard Business from mainland visitors during the May 1 Golden Week was not as good as previous years, and there are many reasons for this. | //--> Monday, May 14, 2012 | Business from mainland visitors during the May 1 Golden Week was not as good as previo...
Drug dealer who shot addict jailed for life The Independent | Anthony Small, 32, shot Anthony Dickson with a sub-machine-gun in Hayes, west London, on Christmas Eve 2010. Two weeks earlier Dickson, 33, stole crack cocaine from a drug runner working for Small and a fellow dealer Max Feliciano. | Yesterday at t...
Barry George to sue for compensation The Independent | Mr George, 52, who was cleared after a retrial in 2008, will be one of five lead cases to be heard at the High Court in London this autumn, a judge ruled yesterday. The five will test the law on who is now entitled to payments in "miscarriages...
Juror fined for smoking cannabis The Independent | Shezad Hussain, 26, puffed the drug at a bus stop just yards from the entrance to Bolton Crown Court, Greater Manchester. But he was spotted by a juror on another case who alerted police. | Hussain at first denied but then admitted the offence, bla...
Abu Qatada could be bailed as extradition drags on The Independent | He is being held in a high-security prison while he fights deportation to Jordan to face terror charges. A Home Office spokeswoman said: "We believe Abu Qatada poses a real risk to national security and will continue vigorously to resist any a...
