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...There are indications of a turnaround. Although revenues from horse racing dropped 9% last season, the club's total sales rose 13.5%, to $11.3 billion?the first increase since 2000. Yet even as the club struggles to overcome illegal bookies, powerful new competitors are springing up. In nearby Macau, a welter of Las Vegas-style casinos are scheduled to open in the next few years, giving Hong Kongers more ways to imperil their paychecks. The number of tourists visiting Macau jumped 53% in the first half of the year. It's enough to make a punter long for the good...
...peaceful unification" and "one country, two systems." China has insisted on this and has never changed its stance. In the "one country, two systems" formula, the "one country" means the PRC. And "two systems" means that the PRC will play the part of central government while Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan would be local governments...
...homework. I have to give her all of these films from the period, so she can understand the gestures, the actions. And also I give her all the costumes, because she has to get those manners down. Gong Li's character is a gambler, so Li headed down to Macau incognito to watch gamblers at work. She's very serious. She needs to have a lot of preparation. Faye Wong, she doesn't need to do that because we've worked [together] before, and she always tries to make herself very relaxed...
...TIME: What about Gong Li? How did she prepare for her role? Wong: She played a gambler, so she went to Macau by herself to watch and prepare. She wouldn't take a production assistant with her. It was Macau undercover. She is very serious. She is very smart. She needs to have a lot of preparation...
...more than a decade, Fischer crisscrossed the globe, passing through Hungary, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Macau and South Korea. By 2000, Japan and the Philippines had become his primary home bases, and he reportedly reveled in the relative anonymity they afforded him. Yet Fischer never truly went into hiding. He traveled using his real identity and passport, and he twice dared to pass directly under the U.S. government's nose. In 1997, Fischer renewed his passport at the U.S. embassy in Bern, Switzerland, and he returned there in 2003 to get 20 new passport pages...