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11.24.20
A Border Town’s Second Gamble
Maxine greets us from her small apartment, decorated with flowers and a poster of herself. “If you ask me whether I feel like this is Laos or China, I feel like I’m living in China. There are so many Chinese people here,” she says as she brushes her...
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08.06.17The Trump Organization Has Been Granted Trademarks in Macau, China’s Casino Hub
Fortune
A company linked to U.S. President Donald Trump has been granted approval from the Chinese territory of Macau for additional trademarks, including casino services, to develop the “Trump” brand in the world’s biggest gambling center.
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06.26.17China Jails Workers from Crown Resorts of Australia in Message to Casinos
New York Times
A court in Shanghai on Monday sentenced three Australian employees of Crown Resorts to less than a year in prison each for illegally promoting gambling in China. Including the time they have already spent in prison, all three should be released in...
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05.04.17U.S. Investigates Work at Pacific Island Casino Project with Trump Ties
New York Times
Officials say contractors illegally hired Chinese workers in Saipan, part of an American commonwealth, to build a casino overseen by a former Trump protégé.
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10.19.16Crown’s Luck Runs Out as China Widens Casino Crackdown
Wall Street Journal
Foreign companies face inherent risks in attracting high-rollers from China, where gambling is illegal
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10.06.15China’s Xi Jinping Changes the Odds in Macau
Wall Street Journal
If there’s one skill that the U.S. gambling moguls who staked their futures here have mastered it’s calculating the odds.
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07.22.15China Feared CIA Worked with Sheldon Adelson's Casinos to Bust Officials
Guardian
China fears that casinos owned by Sheldon Adelson were used by the CIA to blackmail Chinese officials.
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01.16.15Macau Sex Ring Bust Shows China Expanding Crackdown on Graft
Bloomberg
Police in the former Portuguese colony arrested Alan Ho, handcuffing him and covering his head with a black hood, for allegedly operating a prostitution ring out of the casino complex of his uncle, Stanley Ho.
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03.11.14A Border City on the Edge of the Law
New York Times
Mongla in Myanmar is best known among Chinese tourists for its casinos and large selection of rare and endangered animals.
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07.16.13Training Future Macau Casino Bosses
New York Times
Macau opened its doors to major U.S. investors like Sands and Wynn Resorts when it liberalized its casino industry in 2002. It now has at least 35 casinos employing more than 81,000 staff, mostly expatriates.
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08.14.12Scrutiny for Casino Mogul’s Frontman in China
New York Times
When Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate, needed something done in China, he often turned to his company’s “chief Beijing representative,” a mysterious businessman named Yang Saixin. Mr. Yang arranged meetings for Mr. Adelson with senior Chinese...
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07.11.12Sheldon Adelson and Macau
New Yorker
Nearly forty years ago, S. J. Perelman described a fictional Hong Kong hotel he called the “Golden Bamboozle,” a reference not only to a bed chamber that cost a “prince’s ransom,” but to a city that was a magnet for bon vivants and grifters and risk...