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...Vegas Sands is considering a range of ways to raise additional funding, including selling minority stakes in its existing Macau properties or listing its Macau operation on the Hong Kong stock exchange. The company "continues to pursue and consider a variety of options," says a Las Vegas Sands spokesman, who declined to discuss details. The company said it hopes to restart construction on the Cotai project by the end of the year...
...Late last year, Las Vegas Sands, which has been suffering from slumping revenues in the U.S. as well, appeared to be in danger of defaulting on its debt obligations until it raised more than $2 billion in capital - including some from Adelson himself - to stabilize its finances. (See a Hong Kong side trip: Macau...
...Tarantino has dreamed mostly of movies, and his pictures are pastiches, updatings, twistings of the films he loved in a previous life as the world's coolest, most knowledgeable video-store clerk. Kill Bill paid homage to Hong Kong swordplay films, and Death Proof to car-crazy exploitationers of the '70s. This one, which might seem a mixture of wartime films from the U.S. and France (it does absorb some of the aura of François Truffaut's 1980 The Last Metro), is really, as Tarantino has said, "a spaghetti Western but with World War II iconography." That means...
...Classified Cheese Room: Hong Kong's Classified Cheese Room, www.classifiedfoodshops.com.hk, is tucked away on Hollywood Road outside the city's SoHo eat streets, but that doesn't stop it from luring plenty of custom with its walk-in cheese facility stocked with 40 artisanal varieties. The cheeses can be served at the Cheese Room's parent operation, the Press Room restaurant next door, or in situ - choose from casual deli tables, or a wine cellar that functions as a private dining room...
...Seto Wing-hong, a leading microbiologist and a member of the Hong Kong government's Influenza Research and Response Group, is cautiously optimistic about the world's ability to reckon with this new disease. "There is every chance that it will spread," he says. "But these things have long incubation periods, and we, like never before, have the luxury of time and high-speed technology to track strains of viruses again and again and to fine-tune our actions in response." Seto believes a usable vaccine can be made and distributed by September or October...