Cotai
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Blend of Coloane + Taipa, the areas immediately south and north of the area.
Proper noun[edit]
Cotai
- An area in Macau.
- 2005 March 19, “World Business Briefing Asia: China: Casinos In Macao Deal”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 May 2015, Business Day[2]:
- The first phase of the project in Macao's Cotai area, set to open in 2007, will feature seven resort hotels with more than 10,000 rooms, casinos and eight entertainment theaters as well as a convention center, said the Las Vegas Sands chairman, Sheldon G. Adelson.
- 2011 September 11, Donny Kwok, “Wynn to pay $193 mln to Macau for Cotai project development”, in Muralikumar Anantharaman, editor, Reuters[3], archived from the original on 19 August 2016, Market News[4]:
- Wynn Macau , a unit of Wynn Resorts Ltd , said on Monday it would pay $193.43 million to the Macau government for use of land to develop its resort project in the Cotai area.
In a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange, Wynn Macau said it formally accepted the terms and conditions of a land concession contract from the Macau government regarding about 51 acres of land in the Cotai area for development into a resort containing a five-star hotel, gaming areas, retail, entertainment, food and beverage, spa and convention offerings.
- 2012 May 9, “Wynn's profits rise but game plan is for Cotai”, in South China Morning Post[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 September 2023[6]:
- The core of Macau's gaming industry is moving to Cotai, which is already home to Galaxy Entertainment, Sands China and Melco Crown Entertainment.
- 2014 January 10, Matthew G. Miller, Peter Newcomb, “Bloomberg Billionaires Index: The rich got $524 billion richer in 2013”, in The Washington Post[7], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 January 2014[8]:
- Galaxy shares soared 129 percent in 2013 as Lui and his son Francis expanded their biggest property, Galaxy Macau, in the city's Cotai area to capitalize on record visits by gamblers from China.
- 2016, Alex Berenson, The Wolves[9] (Fiction), Wheeler Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 380:
- As he flew in, he saw his new casino towering over Cotai, its structural work finished months before, ready to open as soon as the workers installed beds and furniture and of course the baccarat tables. He realized he was looking at the perfect four-billion-dollar excuse.
Cheung had bitten. Now Duberman stood on the roof of the Sky, looking at the bridges that connected Cotai with the old Macao.
- 2017 May, Emily Matchar, Piera Chen, “Macau”, in Hong Kong (Lonely Planet)[10], 17th edition, Lonely Planet Global Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 192:
- Taipa was once two islands that were slowly joined together by silt from the Pearl River. A similar physical joining has happened to Taipa and Coloane because of land reclamation from the sea. The new strip of land joining the two islands is known as Cotai (from Coloane and Taipa).