When the Sands Macao opened in 2004, Asia's first Las Vegas-style casino prompted an extraordinary boom for Macau and casino owner Las Vegas Sands (LVS). Thereafter, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong reversed decades of ruling party opposition to approve two casino resorts, hoping to emulate Macau's and LVS's success. Macau and LVS are now both reeling as the world's economies take a turn for the worse, and some analysts forecast Singapore's integrated resorts (IRs)...