Pieces of Imperial Palace in Saipan are being auctioned off. But that misbegotten project has not quashed ambitions for casino gambling on the tiny US Pacific island, Muhammad Cohen reports.
Over the past decade, Imperial Pacific Internationals Saipan casino project has gashed a path of destruction across the Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands, specks of US Pacific territory at least four hours flying time from Asian markets.
Among the ruins: unfinished, shuttered Imperial Palace casino hotel despoiling Saipans downtown Garapan beachfront; dozens of ancestral graves, plus fallen Japanese and American World War II fighters, disturbed on the site. One dead construction worker and others mangled through forced labour trafficking. Som…
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