Hong Kong
NEW York's Resorts World Casino, the top-grossing slots parlour in the US, broke ground on a new 400-room hotel, part of the Malaysian group Genting's renewed multi-state effort to broaden its appeal to American gamblers.
The hotel marks a US$400 million expansion at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens that will include additional casino space, along with new retail, dining and entertainment, Resorts World and its parent announced in a statement on Thursday.
After a lull in its US activity, Genting is stepping up. The company recently began work on the first major new casino on the Las Vegas Strip in a decade, after letting the project idle for four years. Genting is trying to gain approval...