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Signs of getting it right in Macau
Getting more mass market business is helping Macau lift its game as a tourist destination.
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Posted in Asia Times, City of Dreams, Club Cubic Macau, Gagnam Style, Galaxy Macau, Grand Lisboa Hotel, Hong Kong On Air, Macau, Macau Business, Macau casinos, Psy
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China seen from the bottom up
Novelist Sheng Keyi, author of Northern Girls, depicts the China its leadership ignores. 
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Posted in Asia Times, China, China economy, China leadership change 2012, China urban migration, Hong Kong On Air, Northern Girls, Sheng Keyi, Ubud Writers Festival
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Macau casino revenue numbers hide real news
Mass market gaming and the growth of Cotai have begun reshaping Macau. 
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Posted in Asia Times, casinos in Asia, China, Cotai entertainment district, Hong Kong On Air, Macau, Macau Business, Macau casinos, Macau relationship with China
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McYale with the death penalty – and no backtalk
Yale’s Singapore branch campus promises to uphold liberal arts values but compromises with the city’s illiberal regime.
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Posted in Asia Times, Hong Kong On Air, National University of Singapore, Pericles Lewis, Richard Levin, Shaun Tan, Singapore freedoms, Wall Street Journal, Yale, Yale-NUS Singapore
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Macau bribe tale winds toward Beijing, Vegas
A new probe into ties between Sands China and Macau lawyer/official Leonel Alves puts company chairman Sheldon Adelson in the middle of a deepening mess. 
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Posted in Asia Times, China corruption, Hong Kong On Air, Las Vegas Sands, Leonel Alves, Macau casinos, ProPublica, Sands China, Sheldon Adelson, US politics
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