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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
THE TAIWANESE ISLANDS of Matsu do not seem like an ideal spot for one of the world's biggest casinos. Although they are ringed by rocky beaches and azure water, only about 10,000 people live on the 19 tightly clustered flyspecks, some 126 miles away from the main island Taiwan. An Associated Press reporter who visited in 2012 described Matsu's few shops as "a complex of decaying concrete structures that are most notable for their low-wattage gracelessness." Besides a small tourism industry, the islands' chief draw is sorghum-based liquor that, to the uninitiated, smells like embalming fluid.
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