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Category: (Science & Technology)
Would a US airline have the guts to do this? One look at the explosive growth of giant casinos juxtaposed with a well-preserved historic district and there is no doubt that Macau is a success. And judging ...Created on 06 October 2010 -
Category: (Video)
uI2kO4qTi80 Macau is now boffo, big wicket, the wiseguys at Variety Magazine might say. When I first ferried across from Hong Kong in the 1980s, Macau was a Portuguese colonial backwater with mid-sized ...Created on 05 October 2010 -
Category: (Asia)
I had a dream that the Grand Lisboa tower, a hotel-casino that now dominates the skyline of Macau, came alive one night, pulled itself from its mooring, marched across China's Pearl River Delta and, ...Created on 26 January 2010 -
Category: (Connected Traveler Radio)
... Descent into the Borneo Underground: Cave Crawling in SarawakSarawak_Island_of_Borneo Burma: We went there but you may or may not want to.MyanmarAkaBurma Macau: Portugal in ChinaMacau_Portugal_in_China ...Created on 16 April 2009 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... to turn a profit on a $2 billion dollar investment. Or is it the egos of bigger-than-life guys, the Sheldon Adelsons (who built the Palazzo and the Venetians of Las Vegas and Macau) or the Steve Winns. ...Created on 21 January 2008 -
Category: (Essays)
... Imagine, you have to go to York to find normal, these days. In some countries it is always a challenge to not get cheated by taxi drivers. I made a deal with a driver in Macau once who was extremely ...Created on 04 August 2006 -
Category: (Asia)
Macau_Portugal_in_China We are in a town square. A building has walls festooned with blue and white tiles and a courtyard with busts of dead poets. The square is paved with small stones fashioned ...Created on 03 August 2006