Hong Kong Gambling Macau
Taipa Terminal is to the south, closest to the Cotai Strip area with the biggest casinos such as the Venetian, the City of Dreams across the street, and the Macau International Airport. To go to the Taipa Terminal, take the Cotai Jet from any of the three Hong Kong terminals. HONG KONG (Reuters) - Macau gambling king Stanley Ho, who built a business empire from scratch in the former Portuguese colony and became one of Asia’s richest men, died peacefully at the age of. Mahjong is the only legal form of gambling in Hong Kong that is not operated by the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Casino games are all prohibited under Hong Kong gambling laws. If you want to play slot machines, blackjack, or poker, you will need to catch a ferry to Macau. Another option is to take a casino cruise.
'We are not another Singapore', former Hong Kong chief executive Leung Chun-ying said last week. But what is Hong Kong exactly? We have tended to focus on Hong Kong's status as an international finance hub but forgotten that, sooner or later, whether in good ways or bad, Hong Kong would eventually return to the control of the Chinese government.
At the end of the day, no one can deny that Hong Kong historically belongs to China. This is the key point that the central government keeps emphasising.
The events that took place in 2019 and continue to this day make the authorities wary of the previous 'indulgence' of Hong Kong and investigate how this system became a hotbed of so-called opposition forces, with rebels standing up and challenging the government. It needed to stop, and the central government has now taken action.
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At the just-concluded session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, 'one country, two systems' was not mentioned in the government's work report for the first time since 1997. National People's Congress spokesman Zhang Yesui said China's national legislature planned to rewrite election rules in Hong Kong to make sure the city was run by patriots.
Sound familiar? That is today's Macau. The core members of the Macau government are patriots who are carefully selected by the Chinese government, and there are only four pro-democracy members in Macau's Legislative Assembly. The Macau public is generally seen as unconcerned with or not wanting to participate in politics. Things are quite peaceful in that small town.
Leung is indeed right. Hong Kong can compete with Singapore and win in many ways, except Hong Kong is not an independent nation. From the perspective of sovereignty, no matter what goes wrong in Hong Kong, it is difficult for other countries to argue with China.
Maybe from the Chinese government's perspective, last year's move by the pan-democrats in Hong Kong to win a majority and force Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor to step down was misguided.
Hong Kong is going to become another Macau, and it will be obedient, with a sensible government: another shining example of one country, two systems.
Chloe Hui, Yuen Long
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