Macau's God of Gamblers



ORIGINAL POST
Posted by Ed 13 yrs ago
In the late summer of 2007, a fifty-year-old former barber named Siu Yun Ping began making regular visits from his village, in Hong Kong, to the city of Macau, the only Chinese territory where it is legal to gamble in a casino. Siu Yun Ping—or Brother Ping, as friends called him—had known little good fortune. He grew up in the tin-roofed hut of a squatters’ settlement on the mudflats of rural Hong Kong.


Read on http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/04/09/120409fa_fact_osnos?currentPage=all


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Ed 13 yrs ago
Macau Ex-Official Found Guilty of Bribery

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