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Macau opens $1bn casino
07 September 2006
A new casino costing $1.2 billion (£630m) opened in Macau this week.
Wyn Macau Casino offers six restaurants, designer boutiques and 600 hotel rooms as well as a 100,000 sq ft hall with 380 slot machines and 200 tables for roulette and card games.
Other attractions at the new casino include an art gallery with works by Matisse and Renoir.
Macau, the former Portuguese colony and now special administrative region of China, is increasingly turning to gambling to bring in visitors and is expected to surpass Las Vegas as the world's casino capital.
Over the next three years nine major casino developments are to spring up in Macau adding to the Wynn Macau and the Sand Macau the largest casino in the world.
New hotels will create 2,200 new rooms this year and a further 15,000 are set to be added by 2008.
Macau a peninsula and islands off the south-east of China is the only place in China that allows gambling.
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Wyn Macau Casino offers six restaurants, designer boutiques and 600 hotel rooms as well as a 100,000 sq ft hall with 380 slot machines and 200 tables for roulette and card games.
Other attractions at the new casino include an art gallery with works by Matisse and Renoir.
Macau, the former Portuguese colony and now special administrative region of China, is increasingly turning to gambling to bring in visitors and is expected to surpass Las Vegas as the world's casino capital.
Over the next three years nine major casino developments are to spring up in Macau adding to the Wynn Macau and the Sand Macau the largest casino in the world.
New hotels will create 2,200 new rooms this year and a further 15,000 are set to be added by 2008.
Macau a peninsula and islands off the south-east of China is the only place in China that allows gambling.
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