Russia tries to join the Asian gaming boom

On Russia’s far east coast, Vladivostok has lined up two Asia gaming operators to build casinos there. The region hopes to cash in on being closer to northern China than Macau.

Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a blogger for Forbes and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.