Melbourne, Sep 5 : In order to attract gambling stars to Sydney, Star City Casino is planning to buy a 100-million-dollar fleet of jets and convert its harbour front into a wharf for the world's biggest yachts.

• Ex-PM's legacy is as 'warmonger on money trail' – union chiefs • Critics slate Blair's 'casino capitalists' and 'cynicism' over Iraq The publication of Tony Blair's memoirs has caused anger and resentment, with the former prime minister accused of "self pity" and of making a "mockery" of his own government. His claim to have shed many tears over the deaths of British soldiers in Iraq has been ...

STAR City Casino wants to buy a $100 million fleet of jets and build its own wharf for yachts.

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Just as the Coachella Valley economy was picking up steam, The Desert Sun's quarterly Economic Index of leading indicators shows it's hit a bump.

From the public roles and private lives of the judiciary to imprisoned minors and court delays, Chief Justice Vincent DeGaetano talks on the eve of his last sitting before leaving for the European Court of Human Rights.

The Finns take their crawfish seriously. For many, the country's annual crawfish parties are the culinary and social highlight of the year. They mark the end of summer when the sun seems never to set and the beginning of the lengthy, perpetually dark "Cold Snap."

By Douglas Chua Bold.Brazen.Blunt Now why do we keep reading and talking about this foreign talent issue like some kind of plague that just won’t go away? Well, you can be sure it will never go away because they are coming into Singapore at an alarming rate in droves, they are ubiquitous from Bedok to Bishan, they [...]

It is not faint praise to say that the most striking aspect of the interior of the soon-to-open SugarHouse Casino is the spectacularly inventive use of the exceedingly tight 45,000 square feet.

Author: Goh Meng Seng (Secretary General) We are glad to hear the Prime Minister addressing the various key problems that we have been raising for the past one year in his National Day Rally speech. However, at closer examination, we have the following key points to make: $60 billion for MRT infrastructure over 10 years 1. Where would the [...]

BARRING a late change, it now seems we are stuck with the spinster-in-chief for the foreseeable future.

By Yeon-Koo Che, Professor of Economic Theory at Columbia University, and Rajiv Sethi, Professor of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University, cross posted from VoxEU The role of naked credit default swaps in the global crisis is an ongoing source of controversy. This column seeks to add some formal analysis to the debate. Its model [...]

A charge of child abandonment has been withdrawn on a man who left his toddler in a locked car outside a Calgary casino.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The buzz has been building for this season at Iowa since the day the Hawkeyes waltzed out of south Florida with their first BCS win.

Japanese BENIHANA VILLAGE Las Vegas Hilton, 732-5111. Japanese tabletop cooking at its finest. The chefs deliver great steaming-hot food, as well as an entertaining show.

Tony Clement always delivers a chuckle while sprinkling taxpayers' money in North Bay. The Conservative government's Industry Ministry said Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff shouldn't force his MPs to vote with the party to oppose a bill to dismantle the long-gun registry.[...]

Former PM's book gets enthusiastic review from former spin doctor, who also rebuts claims that Blair deliberately timed his book to tie in with the Labour leadership race Alastair Campbell today rallied to the defence of his former boss as he insisted that Tony Blair had not wanted his memoirs published in the heat of the Labour leadership contest. Blair's former press secretary was among the ...

HEAD OF the National Education Trust (NET), Paul Matalon, says there have been several expressions of interest from the private sector to partner with Government to build schools.

Scarborough Downs wants to sell almost all of its land in town other than the racetrack, with an asking price of nearly $12.2 million for more than 400 acres of prime commercial property.

Enforcing a national pre-commitment system on poker machines to allow gamblers to preset their spending limits would be 'enormously' expensive.