In 2006 it was reported that this former Portuguese colony had passed Las Vegas in gambling receipts
In the late summer of 2007, a fifty-year-old 
former barber named Siu Yun Ping ... because of a wrinkle of history: the city was 
a Portuguese colony for ... by 2006 Macau's casino revenues had surpassed 
those of Las Vegas, until then the world's largest gambling town.