Economy
Macao's casino cashes in on Lunar New Year holiday
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-02-23 13:37
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MACAO: As Chinese mainland tourists flocked into Macao during the seven-day Lunar New Year holiday, local casinos reaped some nine billion patacas ($1.13 billion) in table game revenues from February 1 to 21, a local newspaper said Tuesday.
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Total casino revenues for January reached 8.6 billion patacas, according to official figures.
The highest daily table game revenues during the first 21 days of February amounted to at least 900 million patacas, breaking the highest single day record of 800 million patacas last month, the daily said.
