Word: asia
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...python problem started in the 1990s, when many Americans decided that big constrictor snakes like pythons and boas, often imported from Southeast Asia, would make cool house pets. It didn't take them long to realize that the snakes are not quite the exotic delights they thought. Burmese pythons can grow as long as 20 ft. (6 m) and weigh 250 lb. (113 kg). As they grow larger, they require more-spacious homes and bigger, more-expensive animals to eat, like rats and rabbits. They also get more difficult and unpleasant to clean up after. And as last week...
...Despite baccarat's dominance, a 2006 ban on Internet gambling in the U.S. is prompting poker promoters to take their card game across the Pacific in hopes of setting down roots in Asia's Las Vegas. Since the Macau government approved Texas Hold'em cash games and tournaments in January 2008, three casinos have opened designated poker rooms. In its first year in Macau, Texas Hold'em brought in less than $7 million, but that number is set to rise: in the first quarter of 2009 alone, the game took in more than $4 million. "Poker has exploded in Macau...
...have originated) was under way, it's entirely possible that other, unconnected hackers joined the fray. "If you're a hacker, and you see something like that going on, you can use the opportunity to test out your capabilities, masking them under the original attack," says Roger Baker, East Asia analyst at Stratfor, a global intelligence company. (Read a brief history of cybercrime...
...event. The event pales in comparison with the annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, which draws in 7,000 players for a grand prize of $8.5 million at its main event, but the Macau tournament's organizers have high hopes for the game's potential in Asia. "The gold standard is the World Series of Poker," says Fred Leung, marketing manager for poker company PokerStars Macau. "In my mind, there's no better place that could beat the World Series of Poker than Macau." (Read a Q&A with the 2008 WSOP winner...
...right now, but most Asians won't have a chance to watch it. Unlike in the U.S., where the WSOP and celebrity poker tournaments have developed a sports following enabled by ESPN and Bravo coverage, poker is frowned upon - along with other forms of gambling - in some parts of Asia, and many markets ban televised tournaments and any mention of gambling in traditional advertising. In 2007, mainland Chinese censors banned a television commercial for the Altira Macau hotel and casino (formerly known as the Crown Macau) that featured Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-Fat flipping hotel key cards...