THE OLD MACAU
There’s a scene in the deliciously cheesy 1988 miniseries Noble House in which Pierce Brosnan, playing a young Hong Kong tycoon, tries to impress an American love interest with a weekend yacht trip to Macau. As they land at a sleepy pier and cruise along a waterfront road in a black-and-white Rolls-Royce, it looks as though they’ve been transported to some serene location on the Mediterranean.
Today, Macau is anything but serene. The casino boom that followed the
