July 4, 2006 | ChannelNewsAsia | SINGAPORE : US hotel and casino group Las Vegas Sands has begun its marketing campaign for the Marina Bay integrated resort. At an exhibition to sell conference venues and facilities here on Monday, Sands' Asian arm, Venetian Macau, showcased the Singapore project alongside other similar facilities it is developing in

The government of Macau Tuesday said it would provide unlimited bank guarantees on deposits in Macau banks, estimated at a total of US$32.5 billion (260 billion patacas), MacauNews reported Wednesday.Macau’s Secretary for the Economy and Finance, Francis Tam said at a press conference that the government would, “provide loans or capital to banking isntitutions that

Macau welcomed 390,683 visitors on the first four days (September 29 to October 2) of the China National Day golden week, a 13.2 per cent increase compared to the same period of last year. Among the total of visitors, 65 per cent, or 254,139 people, came from Mainland China, 6.3 per cent more than the same

China has clamped down on permits to visit Macau after seeing huge amounts of money flood into casinos in the resort, some of them American-owned,  People in the wealthy southern province of Guangdong that neighbours the former Portuguese colony are now limited to only one trip every three months. The move is the

The Secretary for Economy and Finance, Mr Francis Tam Pak Yuen, said today he expected Macao’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to grow by about 10 per cent this year.During a reception, Mr Tam told the press that with the global economy slowing down and international financial market fluctuating even more wildly, he expected Macao’s economy