The casinos provide the gaming and generally split the proceeds with the junket operators.
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In junket interviews for the film, Stiller said that screening audiences definitely found "Tropic Thunder" funny.
Even during a non-competitive junket to Switzerland, the Olympians put serious time into training.
While the junket industry has many law-abiding members, it has, for decades, been susceptible to the involvement of organized crime.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said the president had turned the occasion into an "indecent partisan junket to spread a message of violence and hatred".
On the other hand, William's totally at sea in Anna's world when he's mistaken for a journalist at a press junket for her latest film.
Not surprisingly, in-country shops are now going into the junket business.
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His efforts were one reason the Department of Agriculture spent this week stuttering out a justification for its sponsorship of a wine junket in California.
Courses offered by countries such as England and Germany are popular with senior police officials, who see them as a junket allowing them to relax abroad.
The business ranges from transporting, housing and feeding 1, 800 NBC workers to crafting a high-end junket for General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and his board of directors.
But the junket industry has not shed its links to triads, and junkets operate in every U.S.-owned casino in Macau, largely because they are able to collect debts in China.
He claims never to have voted for a tax increase, or for an unbalanced budget, or for a congressional pay rise and never to have gone on a congressional junket.
That was the last bit of news about the project...at least until this weekend, when Peter Farrelly dropped a Twitter-imploding bombshell in the middle of a "Three Stooges" press junket.
It was UK Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon's fondness for travelling by the luxury jet at the taxpayers expense that earned him the sobriquet "Junket Geoff" when he was a junior minister.
The trip was the antithesis of the fact-finding junket.
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Working through junket operators is a legal bypass around those problems, because the operators will recruit rich customers from across China, issue them credit, and then handle the complicated business of collection.
Alastair Ross of the DUP said: "Given that we are in the dying days of this committee, it would be irresponsible to be spending our budget on what looks to be a junket".
The day after Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and 34 others slammed into a hill in Croatia, editors at the Wall Street Journal showed what steely stuff they were made of by calling the trip a junket.
The business ranges from transporting, housing and feeding 1, 800 NBC workers to crafting a high-end junket for General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) CEO Jeffrey Immelt and his board of directors.
He also describes his sexual exploits, devoting dozens of pages to one erotic challenge that combined uninhibited lust with high-wire audacity: a thwarted love affair, during a leftist press junket to North Korea in 1958, with a Pyongyang nurse.
In L.A. on a 48-hour break from shooting season four of Jersey Shore in Florence, Italy, Salsano, who goes by S.A., took time out from a press junket for Nail Files, her newest show, which premieres June 21st on TV Guide Network, to talk to me Jersey Girl to Jersey Girl.
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The two insomniacs quickly find an intimacy with each other that has gone missing in Bob's marriage and can't ever have existed between Charlotte and John, who's more at home with his pal Kelly (Anna Faris), a motor-mouthed bimbo in town for a press junket to sell her latest movie in the all-important Japanese market.
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