James Packer’s $4 billion gamble on growth returning to Macau’s embattled casino sector has been rewarded with Studio City helping to boost its market share. Photo: Bloomberg James Packer’s $4 billion gamble on growth returning to Macau’s embattled casino sector has paid its first dividends with Melco Crown Entertainment boosting its market share above 16…
No seriously, why are we still working? Mike Dowson explains in simple terms the great con that keeps you chained to the wheel. This may be an opportune moment to consider the question. Especially if youre not actually working. You may have retired. Perhaps youve just left university, considering your options. Perhaps youre taking a welcome break. Maybe…
The Chinese government is buying up shares to prop up its stock market, in a repeat of last years meltdown. The so-called National Team is injecting cash into the market after Mondays 7% crash, according to a report by Bloomberg News. The government is also preparing to extend a ban on short selling where investors…
A man told his debtor he could pay him back by cooking cocaine but that he would have to take all the blame if caught by police, the Court of First Instance heard today. Lam Wai-kuen, 25, denies one count of conspiracy to manufacture a dangerous drug and one of conspiracy to traffic dangerous drugs.…
Updated Jan. 3, 2016 8:59 p.m. ET On Labor Day weekend in 1990, as Donald Trump faced the worst crisis of his career, he and Wilbur Ross Jr. headed to Atlantic City, N.J., for talks at Mr. Trumps opulent Taj Mahal casino, which had just opened but was already on the verge of missing a…
Jerusalem Couple Arrested After Trying to Sell 3 Month Old Baby Girl Up for $100,000 to Get Fast Cash for Gambling Debts When one thinks of human trafficking and gambling scams it would probably never enter your wildest imagination that a father and mother of a 3 month old baby girl would be involved. However in what…
LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–With 2016 on the horizon, a third of the UK population are expected to make a New Years Resolution, many of whom will attempt to quit smoking. This year, the government is set to offer e-cigarettes on the NHS for the first time, a move welcomed by the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, who are…
An Israeli man allegedly attempted to sell his three-month-old daughter for almost £18,000 in order to pay off his gambling debts. The man, who has not been named but is believed to be in his 30s, claims he never intended to go through with the 100,000 shekels sale, insisting the offer was a ruse to…
A couple from Jerusalem has been detained for trying to sell their three-month-old daughter for 100,000 shekels ($26,000) to pay gambling debts. The father advertised the baby as healthy, but a physical exam showed that she suffered from severe neglect. Meet your new daddy, the father, 30, told his daughter giving her to an undercover…
A Jerusalem resident in his 30s was collared by an undercover police officer on Thursday after trying to sell his 3-month-old baby girl for NIS 100,000 ($25,700) to cover gambling debts, police said. The man and his wife, 27, were placed under arrest. The baby was handed over to Jerusalem municipal welfare workers and…