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Headline News August 25, 2013: Hong Kong Cracks Down on Triads, Syria Warns Middle East, Nordic Newspapers Write UK PM David Cameron

August 25, 2013
August 25 2013
Chemical Weapons
David Cameron
headline news
Hong Kong
Middle East
News
news headlines
Nordic newspapers
organized crime
Prime Minister
Syria
triads
UK

Silvio Berlusconi Threatens to Bring Down Italian Government Muslim Brotherhood Leader in Exile in London Hong Kong Police Arrest 1,800 in Crackdown on Triads Doctors Without Borders Confirms Gas Attacks in Syria Australian Politician Blames the United States’ Lax Gun Laws for Killing of Chris Lane Nigerian Islamists Accused of Slaughtering Villagers Nordic Newspapers Write […]

The Rise of Macau: How the World’s Gambling Capital Transformed Itself

February 3, 2013
Asia
Broken Tooth
China
East Asia
gambling capital
gambling revenue
gaming revenue
junket trade
Macau
organized crime
People's Republic of China
PLA
Portugal
Portuguese colony
Portuguese decolonialization
Portuguese rule
PRC
triad
triads
Wan Kuok-koi
world gambling capital

Macau, once a colony of Portugal and only handed back over to China a little over a decade ago, is the gambling capital of the world with five times the annual gambling revenue of Las Vegas. Benjamin Carlson’s Broken Tooth and New Macau for Foreign Press is a tale of gambling, organized crime, and urban resurgence that uses […]