China’s Demand for Gambling Puts the Squeeze on Macau – Evan Osnos

From Chicago Tribune:

The world’s busiest casino town is straining to handle the affections of the world’s largest population.

By the boatload, gamblers gripping Chinese passports jostle off ferries and cram, sardinelike, into a customs building in this once-sleepy former Portuguese colony on China’s coast. They line up, hundreds deep on a weekend morning, for an entry stamp. Then they line up again for scarce taxis or catch shuttle buses into a town bristling with new casinos, fountains and resorts….[Full Text]