Archive for September, 2006

Macau Tallest Condominium Launched

Macau Tallest Apartment complex 'The Praia' was launched on the 13th of September. The complex will house a total of 4 towers and about 1200 apartments. Each tower will be 56 storey and 185 meters height. With a 270 degrees paranomic view, this will be the tallest apartment project undergoing in Macau before the construction

Wynn Macau On A Roll

Wynn Resorts has said that the number of visitors to its newly openend Wynn Macau has exceeded its expected visitors target so far. As reported by the Macau Daily, the resorts’ operation chief, Chen Zhiling, told the paper that the number of people who visited the casino was good, but would not divulge just how

Macau to Rock Again

On September 30, starting at 14.00PM we are going to have non-stop Rock N' Roll with some of Macau, Hong Kong and overseas best acts! Hard on the heels of last year’s HUSH! success comes HUSH!! Full Band 2006 once again, the Macao Cultural Centre teams up with Macao Music Power to promote the spirit of

Series of Articles About Macau

The Las Vegas Sun send their two reporters Jeff Simpson and Richard N. Velotta to Macau to attend the opening of Wynn Macau but also to get a feeling for the market in Macau. They wrote four excellent articles and are talking mainly about the US casino operator's and their Casino's in Macau. Even though they

Macau Package Tours Continue to Drop

As reported by XinHua - Macao recorded 227,239 package tourist arrivals in July, a year-on-year drop of 6.6 percent, according to official statistics issued in Macao on Wednesday. The figures from the government-run Statistics and Census Service (SCS) showed that the majority of package visitors came in the month from the Chinese mainland (185,084), Taiwan (13,013)

Wynn To Speed Up Second Phase

Stephen is accelerating his extension by instruction his contractors to work 24/7 to complete by February and June 2007. I am sure he must have been very excited to see at what was happening at Sands Macau new extension just opening a few weeks ago, its packed. They are already 2 1/2 years ahead

Macau International Trade and Investment Fair

Update - Again we got coming up in September 23-26, see details 11th MIF Trade and Investment Fair According to the president of the Institute for Promotion of Trade and Investment, Lee Peng Hong, the 2006 fair, which will take place between September 23 and 26, and will have the largest attendance since the fair

China to Put Tighter Limits on Foreign News Reports

This announcement on news reporting restrictions is a bit of a suprise to me. They always had those restrictions, just look at Google they cannot display news or sites that are not 'China' friendly. Maybe they tightening up on those restrictions. What is interesting that they also have included Hong Kong and Macau SAR's as

Wynn Macau – A Place with all the World Class Boutiques

The recently opened Wynn Macau will house a number of world famous boutiques like LV?Chanel?Prada?Christian Dior?Fendi?Tiffany & Company and Rolex (The second store in the world), etc. For Prada and Tiffany & Company, their boutiques will be the first one ever built in Macau.

Wynn Poaches Sands Macau Agent

As reported in Forbes, Stephen Wynn has not wasted any time here! Be interesting to see what Sheldon Adelson response will be about this!!! HONG KONG (XFN-ASIA) - The new Wynn Macau casino has poached VIP agent, Malaysian Phua Wei Seng, from its rival, Sands Macau, the South China Morning Post reported. Citing unnamed sources, the