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S$4.5b ticket to grow with Singapore is 'cheap': Genting chairman

Singapore

GENTING Singapore executive chairman Lim Kok Thay is confident about being picked to build a Singapore-style integrated resort in Japan.

Just as confident as he was before Genting made a winning resort bid here in 2006, he told shareholders at the annual general meeting on Wednesday.

"Fortunately for us, the Japanese government has made it very public that they will use the Singapore model," the billionaire leisure mogul said.

"We have become the top tourist draw in Singapore and also contribute to employment and the local economy. I believe that is exactly what the Japanese government is looking for, whereas our other competitors bar one who is across the road wouldn't be in the same position...

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