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...Michael Robinson, executive director at the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, said the “abortion industry” was “using this case to push for abortion up to birth”....
...“The new rules will also apply to certain types of listed bonds on the basis that they have the same speculative features,” said Sam Robinson, a financial services partner with law firm CMS....
...In contrast to Robinson Crusoe, which was all about the value of imposing order on chaotic wilderness, this is an attempt to make sense of the world by stripping back modern conveniences and distractions...
...Among those in the queue, Las Vegas Sands, controlled by tycoon Sheldon Adelson, is launching a US$3.35bn IPO in Hong Kong for its Macao business with trading scheduled to begin on November 30....
...Macao’s gaming market, the world’s largest, was monopolised by local tycoon Stanley Ho until 2002, when five other concessions were granted to investors including Wynn and Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands...
...Leading the charge are China Minsheng Banking Corp, the country’s first privately-owned bank, and Sands China, the Macau arm of Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas casino empire, with plans to raise as much as a...
...US casino owner Sheldon Adelson has been forced to dilute his controlling stake in Las Vegas Sands to stay solvent after agreeing to buy new shares issued in the group, which owns the Venetian casino....
...It recently raised $475m in convertible senior stock notes from Sheldon Adelson, its largest shareholder, after earnings declined below the amount necessary to maintain debt covenants....
...Sheldon Adelson, head of Las Vegas Sands is understood to be threatening to sue the casino’s Indonesian owners if they attempt to sell to another bidder....
...But Sheldon Adelson, the chairman of Las Vegas Sands, which is behind the Venetian resort, told Reuters the $2.4bn spent on the Venetian would be recouped within three to five years....
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