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From the NYT:

Southeast Asia’s first Universal Studios theme park opened Thursday in Singapore as the city-state vies to become a top regional tourist destination.

The park is part of Resorts World Sentosa — built by Genting, based in Malaysia, for $4.4 billion — which opened Singapore’s first casino last month.

Singapore is counting on Resorts World and a Las Vegas Sands casino-resort due to open April 27 to attract tourists. Universal Studios parks are also in Los Angeles; Orlando, Florida; and Osaka, Japan.

The Straight Times has a more colorful description:

ACTRESSES dressed as Hollywood icons such as Marilyn Monroe and prancing lion dancers were in attendance at Sentosa yesterday when the Universal Studios theme park greeted its first visitors at precisely 8.28am. The park is the last of the attractions at Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) to accept visitors under Phase 1 of its opening.

It is good to see this project finally come to life after all the unfortunate delays.  Now, we can start reading the tea leaves on how much this will add to the GDP and if the 12.5 million purported visitors will really show up in 2010.

UPDATE:

Apparently, I spoke too soon.  It seems one of the main attractions at the park is shut down due to technical difficulties.  Teething troubles, I guess.

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