Title of the article: Casino to open on CNY
URL:http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_489672.html
Author of the article: Lim Wei Chean, Jessica Lim & Tessa Wong
Date of the article: Feb 12, 2010
Summary:
The casino and the theme park will open on the the first day of Chinese New Year. while,only a few facilities in the casinos will run and the opening will just last for eight days, waiting the re-opening early next month. Though it is just the "preview run", it stills attracts lots of people.
My perspective:
The integrated resort in Singapore will definitely become the attraction to the people all over the world. As i see, Singapore government use it as a tool to develop country's tourism. That's really a good idea. But Singapore is a country with strict laws, thus making me really surprised when i first heard that it decided to built a world-class casino. Although the laws states that Singaporean will pay a lot to enter the casinos, which means that the IR only tries to acttract the foreigners without changing the local people's life, i still worry about the real effect of the opening of the IR. Casino is a place for those who are rich, or those who want to become rich by no pains. While, Singapore always ask its people to work, to get the results by their own hands. So, it seems the building of the casinos betrays the country's belief. And i think that problem really needs to be considered by the government.
Whether the integrated resorts will be a success of failure to the economic boom of the Singapore will come out soon after its opening. And whether it will do harm to the atmosphere of the Singpore's society still remains unknown. The CNY's opening will definitely attract many people, but what's going on needs to be concerned.
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回复删除I relly agreed with your ideas! In my opinion, the debut of the integrated resolts in sentosa is a double-edged sword for Singapore. On one side, it will boost the gain of tourism so that to help increase the economy. On the other hand, it will definitely go against what the Singapore government has promised. Thus, for singapore government, this decision is really amazing both economically and politically. However, for singaporeans, this decision may bring a series of problems. Just like the newspaper reported, there are really a lot of people go to the casino to have a look at during the CNY. Even though, whether the final mark to this tough question is A+ or F is still in need of the time to discover. --- Corbin (Guan Mingyang)
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