The Venetian Casino Resort in Taipa Macau

Roshan D'souza,
Macau has played a unique and influential role in relations between China and the West, especially between the late 16th ... Macau has played a unique and influential role in relations between China and the West, especially between the late 16th and 19th centuries. Macau is an ex-Portuguese colony off the Southern coast of China in Far East Asia. Macau was once famous for being an area thick with counterfeiters, spies and drug runners. Ironcially today Macau has legalized casinos and gambling -- and in fact Macau is Las Vegas, Nevada's biggest casino destination rival with experts saying Macau "Cotai Strip" could overshadow the Las Vegas Strip. In the 21st century, Macau is standing on the threshold of a new frontier due to her special status within China as the only region where gambling is legal,

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