Japan Billionaire Okada Crafts Philippine Casino Comeback

Pachinko king Kazuo Okada’s $2 billion Philippine casino dream looked like a nightmare. But the Japanese billionaire’s Manila Bay Resorts is now on track to open next year as the largest property in the Entertainment City casino district.

Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a blogger for Forbes and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.

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