Las Vegas places a big bet on China’s only gambling mecca

Nobody has put a bigger bet on Macao, the only place in China with legalized gambling, than the Las Vegas Sands Corp., which opened the 3,000-suite Venetian in 2007 as the cornerstone of a 20,000-room complex. Built to handle Macao’s 55 percent annual growth in gambling, the casino is three times the size of the [...]