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Singapore Lssues Casino License 新加坡首个赌场开张 Singapore's first casino won regulatory approval to open, paving the way for the debut of gambling in the squeaky clean city-state as early as next week's Lunar New Year holiday. 新加坡监管当局批准该国首个赌场开门营业。博彩业最早将于农历新年期间在这个一尘不染的城市国家登台亮相。 The opening of the casino by Malaysian gambling company Genting Singapore PLC---ahead of Las Vegas Sands Corp.'s much-delayed showpiece project in Singapore's downtown---would bring a formal end to the Singapore government's decades-long opposition to gambling. 该赌场由马来西亚博彩上市公司——新加坡绅士经营，拉斯维加斯金沙集团 (Las Vegas Sands Corp.)在新加坡市中心的示范项目严重滞后，未能抢得先机。意味着新加坡政府数十年来反对赌博的政策正式结束。 (1) It also establishes an important new front for the growth of the booming casino industry in Asia, roping in new gamblers even as it seeks to take business away from Macau and smaller gambling operations in Malaysia, Cambodia, the philippines and elsewhere. (1)新加坡此举为亚洲蓬勃发展的博彩产业建立了重要的新阵地，不但能吸引新的赌客，还力图从澳门以及马来西亚、柬埔寨、菲律宾等其他地方的小赌场吸引生意。 | 
