Las Vegas Sands Corp., parent company of The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, the National Basketball Association and the Chinese Basketball Association announced today that The Venetian Macao will serve as the host of the first NBA event to be played in Macao. NBA China Games 2007 will feature the Orlando Magic playing the China Men's

Underpinned by sustained property demand amid the strong economic growth, the Macau property market continued to grow in 2006.  Both the office and residential markets registered growth in capital values and rentals, while the retail property sector is taking shape to a more sophisticated landscape, says Jones Lang LaSalle at its Macau Annual Property Review

The Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region will be visiting Thailand in order to strengthen relations and foster cooperation in trade, investment, tourism, and labor. The Director General of the Department of Information, Mr. Trit Jarungwattana, revealed that the Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region, Mr. Edmund Ho Hau-wah, will be conducting

Six months ago I witnessed Stanley Ho announce a deal to partner with Steve Wynn on the Hong Kong airport-to-Macau helicopter concession. During the Wynn Macau preopening banquet, Ho stood up in front of the assembled dignitaries and made a big deal out of the supposed partnership. I recently saw a Macau news report that Ho was

The number of visitor arrivals totalled 2,169,489 in February 2007, representing a notable year-on-year increase of 22.3%. As the Chinese New Year fell in February this year, visitors from Mainland China and Hong Kong registered remarkable growth of 23.1% and 24.1% respectively, whereas those from Taiwan, China dropped slightly by 1.8%. Meanwhile, same-day visitors accounted

Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) Director Joa~o Manuel Costa Antunes led a delegation to take part in the Intourmarket (ITM) -- 2007 held in Moscow as an initiative to explore the Russian market. During the visit to Russia, MGTO is invited by China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) to join the "China Tourism Night", a prologue

As the news has come through that Pansy Ho was formally cleared by the Nevada gaming authorities, this interesting and quite revealing report about Pansy and Stanley Ho was published by Burke Hansen an Attorney at large in San Fransisco. The prohibitionist cult in America that has wreaked havoc on foreign gambling companies recently turned its

The total number of visitor arrivals in 2006 increased 18% over 2005 to a new record of 21,998,122; visitors from Mainland China and Hong Kong accounted for 55% and 32% of the total respectively. Mainland visitors travelled to Macao under the Individual Visit Scheme totalled 5,905,477, up by 11%. Visitor arrivals in package tours also

As we mentioned before, there is too much of a good thing in Macau! A small population of 508,000 with a workforce of 260,000 people, that needs to be 400,000 people by 2010. This is to support all those new casino's, hotels and resorts that will be sprouting up all over Macau. And we have

We know already Macau is busting at it's seams. But two recent articles are bringing doom but not gloom. There are just too many jobs but not enough people for those jobs in Macau. Macao's booming casino industry is to need at least 50,000 croupiers in 2009, The Macao Post Daily quoted Joao Bosco Cheang Hong