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MACAU News, May 01, 2013

Wynn Macau Rises to One-Year High as Net Jumps: Hong Kong Mover
Businessweek
Wynn Macau Ltd. (1128), the unit of billionaire Steve Wynn's Las Vegas-based casino company, rose to the highest in a year in Hong Kong trading after reporting a 19 percent increase in first-quarter profit. Wynn Macau shares climbed as much as 4.3 ...
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Macau tycoon bets on luxury hotel
Financial Times
Macau has left Las Vegas behind as a gaming centre. Now it aims to do the same to the world of luxury hotels. One entrepreneur has begun building what he claims will be the world's most luxurious and extravagant hotel and casino, hiring a Bourbon ...
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Sands, DreamWorks strike Macau casino license deal
Boston.com
MACAU (AP) — Kung Fu Panda, Shrek and other DreamWorks characters are coming to a new attraction at Las Vegas Sands Corp.'s Chinese casino resorts, the companies said Tuesday, in the latest sign of China's growing importance to Hollywood studios.
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Las Vegas Beats Macau As Wynn's Profit Surges
Forbes
As Las Vegas and Macau continue to perform, Wynn Resorts Wynn Resorts managed to deliver a wide first quarter earnings beat after the bell on Thursday. The casino operator founded by billionaire Steve Wynn has had a good 2013 from a stock market ...
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Wynn Holding Steady in Macau - The Motley Fool
Motley Fool
Cotai is no doubt the hottest area of Macau for gaming and Wynn Resorts' (NASDAQ: WYNN ) results from the first quarter are another data point showing one of the downsides to this trend. Macau'sgaming revenue overall was up 14.8% in the first quarter, ...
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Gamblers not so anonymous: Beijing keeps closer eye on Macau
Chicago Tribune
The low-key but significant moves signal a deliberate attempt by China to be more directly involved in the oversight of Macau, which has drawn unwanted attention with reports of mainland officials laundering state funds and betting millions in the ...
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Macau judge tells Joseph Lau: we will send doctors to check your health
South China Morning Post
A Macau court has lost patience with tycoon Joseph Lau Luen-hung and will send doctors to Hong Kong to check his health after the billionaire again failed to appear at his bribery trial. Tycoon Steven Lo Kit-sing and Lau are charged with offering a HK ...
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Cost controls help Wynn Resorts beat Wall Street estimates
Reuters
Wynn's Macau casino operations, which account for more than 70 percent of the company's total revenue, also showed an improvement after underperforming in recent quarters. Revenue fromMacau rose 4.4 percent to $992.1 million after falling 9.7 percent ...
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Pacquiao 'eyeing November fight in Macau'
AFP
MANILA — Philippine boxing hero Manny Pacquiao will likely face either of US fighters Brandon Rios or Mike Alvarado in Macau in November, his promoter Bob Arum said Thursday. Pacquiao, 34, who has won an unprecedented eight world titles in different ...
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Macau Revenue Picks Up, Stocks Fall as Vegas Sands Seeks New Auditor
Barron's (blog)
Macau's gambling revenue rebounded from a disappointing week, showing a strong pickup during the seven days ended April 28. Bloomberg News. Here's Citi's Anil Daswani: Based on our channel checks, Macau table GGR for the first 28 days in April ...
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Wynn Macau Q1 net revenue near US$1 bln
Macau Business Daily
Net revenues at Wynn Macau Ltd rose 4.4 percent year-on-year to US$992.1 million (7.93 billion patacas), despite its VIP chip turnover for the period falling 15.3 percent. Mass-market table gross revenue rose 14 percent year-on-year to US$243 million.
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Macau enterprise investment in China increases
Macau Daily Times
Wang Chao, the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China, revealed yesterday in Macau that under the Mainland and Macau Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA), investment from the mainland into Macau ...
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Sands to Woo Families at Macau Casinos With Shrek, Kung Fu Panda
Businessweek
The casino operator controlled by billionaire Sheldon Adelson has entered into a licensing agreement with Dreamworks Animation SKG Inc. (DWA) to use those and other cartoon characters at three resorts in Macau's Cotai area, the Asian equivalent of the ...
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Border checks widen as avian 'flu spreads south
Macau Business Daily
Thermal infrared detectors will begin operating this morning in all of Macau's border crossings, the Health Bureau announced, as the first case of H7N9 bird 'flu was detected in Fujian province. So far there has been no confirmed case of H7N9 infection ...
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Sands, DreamWorks strike Macau casino licence deal
South China Morning Post
Sands China, the Macau arm of US casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, has entered into a licensing agreement with DreamWorks Animation SKG to host animated characters including Kung Fu Panda Po, Shrek and King Julien of Madagascar at its three Cotai ...
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Macau's tourism policies are a “knee jerk reaction'
Macau Daily Times
Glenn McCartney, the Assistant Professor in Gaming and Hospitality Management at the University ofMacau (UM), believes Macau lacks long-term vision for its tourism industry. He also notes that the government reacts to problems and challenges in a ...
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Meet Pansy Ho, the billionaire behind the gambling den of Macau
Economic Times
Hong Kong's richest woman Pansy Ho might have built her fortune on the phenomenal rise of Macau, China's very own gambling mecca, but she considers herself to be a terrible gambler, and admits that she does not even know half of the rules.
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Economic Times
Wynn Resorts: May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor
Barron's (blog)
Wynn Resorts, which owns casinos in Las Vegas and Macau, is recovering from a slowdown in China last year and more competition for high rollers there. In Las Vegas, casino revenue rose 12 percent to $176.3 million in the first quarter on higher table ...
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Pacquiao back in Nov. vs. Alvarado or Rios in Macau
Inquirer.net
SAN FRANCISCO–Filipino boxing icon Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao will return to the ring in November against either Mike Alvarado or Brandon Rios in a big boxing event being planned in the Chinese resort city of Macau. Pacquiao, 34, wanted an immediate ...
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Inquirer.net
Macau Poker Cup: Lohia on top of Day 1a
Poker Asia Pacific
Day 1a of the 2013 Macau Poker Cup HK$11,000 Red Dragon Main Event got under way last night at the City of Dream in Macau with a big field expected to surpass the advertised HK$5,000,000 prize pool guarantee. There were 209 entries for Day 1a, and...
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Kung Fu Panda and Shrek debut in Macau with DreamWorks, Sands venture
Reuters India
O), the movie studio famous for family films like "Madagascar" and "Shark Tale", has entered into a licensing agreement in Macau, the world's biggest gambling destination, in a push to diversify revenues. The deal with billionaire Sheldon Adelson's ...
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University of Macau Forum: Treatment lacking for children with learning ...
Macau Daily Times
My son is autistic. Do you have therapy available?” “Schools don't accept my son. Can MCDA help me to find a school?” Anxious parents raised similar questions, which Eliana Calderon, Founder and Coordinator of the Macau Child Development Association ...
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Macau Poker Cup: Johnny Chan highlights massive Day 1b field
Poker Asia Pacific
It was another huge day inside the walls of the new PokerStars LIVE at the City of Dreams in Macau as Day 1b of the 2013 Macau Poker Cup HK$11,000 Red Dragon Main Event took centre stage. Officials were hoping for another 200+ players to stay on track ...
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Macau's oldest Chinese theatre gets MOP20 million facelift
Macau Daily Times
The Cheng Peng is Macau's oldest Chinese theatre. It opened 15 years after the city's Portuguese D. Pedro V Theatre opened in 1860. William Kuan Vai Lam, the company's vice manager, told reporters his company has the support of the bureau to turn the ...
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Carson Yeung denies money-laundering charges
Macau Business Daily
Carson Yeung Ka Sing, a Hong Kong resident with Macau business interests, pleaded not guilty to money-laundering charges in a Hong Kong court yesterday, while trying anew to halt the trial at the start of the much-delayed proceedings. The former ...
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DreamWorks to Take Its Characters to Macau Resort
New York Times
DreamWorks Animation SKG is bringing its “DreamWorks Experience” — the chance to play and dine with DreamWorks characters in a themed resort setting — to the Chinese gambling haven of Macau. On Tuesday, the studio joined Sands China to ...
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Macau Poker Cup: Records smashed in Red Dragon Main Event
Poker Asia Pacific
We said earlier in the week that records were made to be broken when it comes to poker in Macau. Well, that ambition has quickly become reality overnight as the Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon has obliterated the previous record for this event. The previous ...
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Sichuan quake money well spent, says govt
Macau Business Daily
Despite reports of cracks in the walls of a Macau-financed school in the province of Sichuan after the earthquake there on Saturday, the government here has said the building has no structural problems. For its part, the Macau Red Cross has said that ...
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Terry Fan Wins Largest Ever Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon
PokerNews.com
After the entire Macau Poker Cup festival kicked off the opening of the new PokerStars LIVE Macauat the City of Dreams with a bang, the series has now come to a close with the completion of the Red Dragon Main Event. Emerging victorious over the ...
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Rio Macau - class and character? - Hong Kong / Macau Travel - About.com
About - News & Issues
We're not in Vegas any more. As the arrival of Hollywood casinos, such as the Venetian, and the development of the Cotai Strip tries to turn Macau into an Asian version of Las Vegas there's a couple of casinos that continue to peddle local style. One ...
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Macau News - Na Tcha Temple repairs slated to begin next week
A free news service, based in Macau, in English and Simplified Chinese, providing news aboutMacau within a regional context. It´s part of the Media Group that ...
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Gamblers not so anonymous: Beijing keeps closer ... - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: By Farah Master MACAU (Reuters) - With little fanfare, China is sending an official with a 'tough cop' reputation to be its top man in Macau, ...
news.yahoo.com/gamblers-not-anonymous-beijing-keeps-clos...
Sands, DreamWorks Strike Macau Casino License Deal - ABC News
Sands, DreamWorks Strike Macau Casino License Deal.
abcnews.go.com/.../sands-dreamworks-strike-macau-casino-lic...
Sands, Dreamworks strike Macau casino license deal - Travel | NBC ...
MACAU — Las Vegas Sands' China arm is licensing Dreamworks characters for a new attraction at one of its Macau casino resorts. Don't miss these Travel ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/51712606/ns/travel/
Kung Fu Panda and Shrek debut in Macau with ... - Reuters
Related News. Sands lawsuits shine harsh light on Macau's casino paradise. Sun, Apr 14 2013. Analysis: Yuan speculators muddle China's exports, ...
www.reuters.com/.../entertainment-us-dreamworks-sands-idUS...
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