“Las Vegas Caters to Asia’s High Rollers” (NYT article and url)
By GARY RIVLIN
Published: June 13, 2007
excerpt ….
“The vigor of their efforts is stirring the ire of some Asian activists and others. “If the casinos singled out African-Americans and marketed to them as heavily as they do Asians, I’d imagine there’d be this huge political outcry,” said Timothy W. Fong, co-director of the Gambling Studies Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. “The marketing has been so aggressive, and the penetration so deep, we’re starting to see alarming increases in the rates of problem gambling among Asians.””
continued at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/business/13vegas.html?em&ex=1181880000&en=497728caadcc8f9c&ei=5087%0A
