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...time outdoors and not in smoke-filled gambling parlors. But New South Wales is reputed to be home to 10% of the world's poker machines. Many of them seem to be located in Sydney's sprawling Star City casino complex, tel: (61-2) 9777 9000, smack on Darling Harbour and one of the city's inescapable landmarks. With its 145,000-square-meter main gaming room awash in color, noise and distraction, this populist fun palace is an apt approximation of what entertainment venues would look like if the Roman Empire still existed. When you're tired of feeding...
...everything has gone wrong with Harbour Fest, a series of 15 government-funded rock concerts intended to trumpet to the world that Hong Kong is completely over the SARS outbreak of last spring. It has a handsome venue beneath incandescent skyscrapers and world-class acts such as Prince and Santana have played. The Rolling Stones are due this week...
...promising to allow a full audit of the books. "There's absolutely zero to hide." Late last week the organizers took out ads to promote the finale concerts, which read: "Never mind the politics. It's the Rolling Stones." There's been a whole lot of head banging at Harbour Fest?a lot of it far from the stage...
...Last June, six months after Planet Hollywood International emerged from Chapter 11: Part 2, Earl scooped up the ailing Aladdin Resort & Casino for $635 million--half what it cost to build the three-year-old complex--using money from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, which will own 15%, and Bay Harbour Management, a vulture fund that will split the rest with Earl. The acquisition is designed to transform the Planet from a been-there, done-that restaurant to a vibrant Hollywood outpost housing TV studios and weekly movie premieres. The CEO's new tag line: Constant change...
...British traveler Henry Norman pronounced Hong Kong ?about as insanitary as any place in the world under civilized rule.? Though conditions have improved, the city?s Victoria Harbour remains unswimmable, its public housing is still a shambles and its back alleys provide habitats for rats. Now SARS has inspired the government to look for ways to spruce up the city?s streets?and its image. Led by bow-tied Chief Secretary Donald Tsang and his ?Team Clean,? Hong Kong?s mandarins have settled on an approach that is down-right Singaporean. Last week, the government proposed raising fines for littering...