HONG KONG -- The Macao government looks set to tighten its leash on the city's casino companies as it prepares to give them another decade to run the thousands of tables and slot machines of Asia's largest gambling hub.
Yet with new licensing terms moving quickly through the city's legislature ahead of the expiration of existing concessions in June, the casino moguls are hardly complaining. This is because many observers expect a tamer industry could also be a lot more profitable.
