Article Photos: Asian casino boom aims to lure region's new rich



  FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2007 file photo, a staff member demonstrates the roulette wheel at Grand Lisboa Casino in Macau. In the Philippines, a $4 billion casino project will soon rise from reclaimed land on Manila Bay. In South Korea, foreign investors will break ground next year on a clutch of casino resorts offshore. The projects are part of a casino building boom rolling across Asia, where governments are trying to develop their tourism markets to capture increasingly affluent Asians with a penchant for gambling. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2007 file photo, a staff member demonstrates the roulette wheel at Grand Lisboa Casino in Macau. In the Philippines, a $4 billion casino project will soon rise from reclaimed land on Manila Bay. In South Korea, foreign investors will break ground next year on a clutch of casino resorts offshore. The projects are part of a casino building boom rolling across Asia, where governments are trying to develop their tourism markets to capture increasingly affluent Asians with a penchant for gambling. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)