Tomorrow - Bulletin of Singapore Bloggers tag: casino

Resorts World Sentosa - An Inside Look [Pictures]

2010-01-21T21:56:57+08:00

Are you wondering what it is like on the inside? We take you on a tour through this highly anticipated attraction. Even before the Universal Studios theme park, the country’s first ever casino, and most of the 60 restaurants are open for business, the resort has already amassed a huge crowd on its opening day!

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "The Resorts World Sentosa integrated resort in Singapore launched its first phase to the public on January 20 with 4 new hotels and 10 eateries. Find out what to expect."

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Sands Project Causes Worry

at82 — 2008-11-15T19:51:38+08:00

Wall Street Journal said:

SINGAPORE -- Despite assurances from the developer, Singapore is looking for ways to avoid ending up with a mammoth unfinished project on a prominent piece of land if U.S. casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp. is unable to complete a $4.9 billion gaming venture.

"This is supposed to be the new revenue source for Singapore, and we are faced with a situation where the developer and operator will delay the completion at best or could end up unable to fulfill the contract. There are alarm bells all over the place," said a person familiar with the matter.

Recommended by at82: "Are we going to have a huge construction hole in downtown Singapore?!"

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Casinos or culture? Singapore seeks tourists

2007-06-04T14:15:01+08:00

CNN said:

Perhaps Singapore's biggest handicap is its lack of famous sights: it has no Angkor Wat or Taj Mahal. For many years, it prided itself on its innumerable shopping malls, and promoted its annual "Singapore Sale".

Abroad, it is often better known for its authoritarian ways -- it canes vandals, executes drug offenders, crushes political opposition, and bans the sale of chewing gum. Culturally, its development has been crippled by restrictions on freedom of expression and censorship of films and plays.

Recommended by Anonymous Coward: "Not exactly the celebratory messages we get all the time from the local media."

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Genting Gets the Singapore I.R. - Smart Political Move

tinkertailor — 2006-12-10T22:28:18+08:00

Lawman's Thoughts said:

But the clincher - I speculate - and this this is never admitted in the official grounds of decision - is that a failure to award to Genting would have resulted in intense, totally unfriendly and uncertain competition with the region's most established (by far) resorts operator.

Recommended by tinkertailor: "Why the selection of Genting was also a smart political move."

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StickyIssues: The Casino Debate Continues

MercerMachine — 2005-10-19T18:43:51+08:00

MercerMachine said:

Recommended by MercerMachine: "because I am shameless."

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Workers Needed!!

CoWg0eSm0o — 2005-05-15T18:31:38+08:00

Need a job? No frill!! Talkingcock.com offers us a preview at what might be on the job application form of a casino-related organisation... Perfectly Legal, OK?!?!

The CHAP SAR TIAM SECRET SOCIETY, a Geylang-based organization for youth, is now recruiting members to fulfill a tender they are submitting to the new casi… sorry, sorry, integrated resort.

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What's next for Singapore?

andretan — 2005-05-16T06:55:46+08:00

andretan said: What's next for Singapore?

After the big hoo-haa about not just having one ~~casino~~ Integrated Resorts, but two, so what's next?
*snip*
And so now, we finally are going to have 2 IRs after lots of hoo-haa and mixed feelings in the local blogosphere and the media, only to get slammed by Las Vegas casino mogul, Steve Wynn.

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New IR Workout Introduced

podah — 2005-05-11T22:42:30+08:00

Podah said:

In preparation of the Integrated Resorts rolling our way soon, PODAH introduces the new IR workout, which will be practiced daily after school assembly (for students) and before knocking off from work (for adults). This workout, done holding a 2.5kg dumbbell, involves extending your right arm fully for 3 seconds and then bringing your elbow down to your side for 3 seconds.

3 sets of 12 reps a day will be sure to bring out the Jackpot King in you.

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Why Tym is upset about the casinos

mb — 2005-05-02T03:38:10+08:00

Tym said:

What roils my constitution here... is that the government took this country through a blatant and massive public relations exercise for about six months, only to announce what seems to the layperson in me to have been a foregone conclusion anyway. I've said this to many people before, and I'll put it in writing here: I don't disrespect all the decisions this government makes, but I wish they'd come right out and say what they want to say, instead of leading us on a merry dance of consultation that twirls us right back to the starting position, from which they weren't going to budge in the first place. Be bold, be blatant, be unapologetic. Have some balls about it, for goodness's sake. Don't dick around with the faux courtship --- small talk, plastic corsages --- only to turn alpha male once the dance is up.

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Poly to offer IR-specific courses

calm one — 2005-04-29T12:56:50+08:00

JayWalk predicts some of the new modules the polytechnics will be offering:

Mahjong 101: Introduction To Mahjong (Taiwanese, Hong Kong & Singapore Rules)
Mahjong 102: The Fundamentals Of Counting The Tais (Doubles)
Mahjong 103: Basics Of The Game (From Dice Throwing, Chiak, Pong, Gong to Gao)
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Yes, our students need to be properly prepared for our Integrated Resorts.

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Casino and F1

lancerlord — 2005-04-25T23:13:53+08:00

Jay-Walk blogs about casino and Formula One.

F1 Singapore will be different from the rest of the races around the world. LTA will be setting up ERP gantries at the chicanes and all racing cars are required to install the In-Vehicle Unit (IU) with a valid cashcard loaded with enough money.

Jenson Button: Jenson to control. Jenson to control. Do you read me?

Control: Come in Jenson, we read you loud and clear.

Jenson Button: I need to come back to the pit again.

Control: Why? You just pitted 2 laps ago. Is anything wrong with the car? I am not picking up any anomalies from you car diagnostics on our monitors.

Jenson Button: I need to top up cash card.

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[Fembot says: Did my eyes deceive me or did I see notices on all the ERP gantry boards I passed by this morning about some rally race thing?]

The Lowdown On Gambling Superstitions

lancerlord — 2005-04-25T09:03:52+08:00

Extracted from The Electric New Paper

Win lose or... die trying? This seems to be the guiding principle for some seasoned gamblers The New Paper on Sunday spoke to who would do anything to avoid a handicap, from feeding sweets to 'casino devils', to wearing their underwear inside out...

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"Integrated Resorts"

chrischoo — 2005-04-23T02:05:48+08:00

Gilbert Koh has a story about how a bank he worked for once turned down the offer to work with a casino and why his CEO staunchly stuck to his refusal to work together with them:

...Then the corporation said, "Look, it's not really about casinos! It's an integrated resort, for goodness sakes! Visitors can also use the phone to pay for their theme park rides, their restaurant bills, their live-show tickets, their massage and spas, their family entertainment, their ferry rides to Macau!"

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Web Symposium: Blogosphere Reactions to the Casino/Integrated Resort Decision 2005

YC — 2005-04-22T08:34:36+08:00

Hui Chieh is compiling the definitive guide to the ~~casino~~ integrated resort issue:

People, he needs your help in making it a mini-Tomorrow.sg specialist blog on the ~~casino~~ integrated resort issue. Please follow the instruction* if you have everything, something or nothing to say about this issue on your blog. Just make sure it's a different view!

*I don't think you'll get fined for not following the instruction, but be nice! :)

(Fembot says: The Singapore Casino Web Symposium is an extensive archive. Anyone interested should submit their thoughts/links/etc on the casino issue there.)

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[jseng: comment's from mcking who has been spaming this entry have all been removed.]

A Casino by Any Other Name

Ruok — 2005-04-21T19:54:36+08:00

Ruok wrote a song on the 2 ~~casinos~~ integrated resorts:

Their Betting Dollar by Ruok (Adapted and hence sung to the tune of The Blower's Daughter by Damien Rice)

And so it is,
Like you said it would be
Not one but two IRs only
Soon, in no time

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On $100 entrance fee...

admin — 2005-04-20T11:50:41+08:00

On the $100 entrance fee to the ~~casinos~~ integrated resorts...

Jim blames those who signed the petitions and suggested putting all of them on the ban-list and barred them and family members from getting a job there.

lzydata discovered that die-hard gambler can hop between the two ~~casinos~~ integrated resorts if they feel 'unlucky' at one of them.

Miyagi made a point that the $100 will encourage the gamblers to gamble more, not less. Ah, the unintended consequenece of a well-intended policy.

Integrated Resort

admin — 2005-04-19T16:36:02+08:00

mrbrown said "Besides, you all should grow up, like the journalist said. Singaporeans should be mature enough to deal with casinos integrated resorts in Singapore, which is why the following measures are in place:

-Casino entrance fee for Singapore citizens and PRs: $100 a day and $2,000 a year. Money collected to go to Singapore Totalisator Board for charitable causes

-Spouses and family members can ask that people with gambling problem be denied entry

-Bankrupts, people on public assistance and those with poor credit records will be excluded

-Locals cannot use credit cards or post-dated cheques or get credit from casinos

Only a mature society would have all these measures to help them to remain mature."

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A Casino in Your Future

admin — 2005-04-19T14:45:02+08:00

Cowboy Caleb said "But at the same time, the gahmen did not wake up one morning and decide, “Hey let’s build a casino for fun and profit”. In an imperfect world, there are no perfect solutions. This is really not the sort of thing that a politician cooks up to further his own career - in fact this is the sort of project with a high probability of failure, social scorn and going down in history as an asshat. The gahmen has thought long and hard on this.

Conclusion: I’m not 100% for this idea, and I’m not 100% against it as well. I’m just glad that I’m 100% sure that no one individual is lining his pockets with this casino idea, because if this was another country, then I would be 100% against it because I know greed and corruption would be the major motivating factors instead of local economic reasons."

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On Casino Debate

admin — 2005-04-18T15:50:22+08:00

豬小草说 "簡單的說，當然是為了「創造」更多就業機會，以解決過去幾年新加坡失業率過高的問題。尤其是解決製造業外移後的失業人口。畢竟，金融服務業能夠吸納的就業人數有限，旅遊餐飲等個人服務業才有辦法吃下這麼多工人。

從旅遊業本身來看，就旅遊局的統計數字(PDF檔)來看，2003年的旅客人數大幅衰退，這跟SARS有關，而2004年的數字也不是很好。但是旅客人數減少並不是最大的打擊，更大的影響其實是「旅客結構」-遊客從哪個國家來-因為這牽涉到他們在新加坡的消費金額。而從1990年代開始，新加坡的遊客結構就由歐美變成日本然後是現在的ASEAN、中國-人數增加，但是每個人平均消費金額反而是減少的。當然，李顯龍一句「不要忽略印度、中國的觀光客，他們也是很富有的」，更確定新加坡現在主要要吸引的對象。"

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