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Profiles tagged “Gaming”.
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Kou Ho Neng and the gaming map of early twentieth-century Macau
Kou Ho Neng
Macau's gambling monopolist for the first half of the 20th century. From 1937 his Tai Hing consortium held the concessions for fantan, pak-kop-piu, and san-piu — dominating Macau gaming for twenty-five years until Stanley Ho displaced him in 1962.
Lui Che Woo: from quarries to Galaxy, the Hong Kong tycoon who reshaped Cotai
Lui Che Woo
Founder and Chairman of Galaxy Entertainment Group and founder of K. Wah International. The Hong Kong–based industrialist seized on Macao's 2002 gaming-licence liberalisation to build Galaxy Macau and StarWorld — large integrated resorts that reshaped Cotai. In 2015 he established the LUI Che Woo Prize for World Civilisation.
Lawrence Ho: from Macao to Cyprus — the next-generation gaming operator
Lawrence Ho
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Melco Resorts & Entertainment. Son of Stanley Ho and his third wife Ina Chan, he built Melco from a Macao-focused gaming bet into a multi-jurisdictional integrated-resort operator, with properties including City of Dreams Macau, Studio City, Morpheus, and City of Dreams Mediterranean.