THE launch of a glitzy on-line casino based on the 'glamorous' world of Macau gambling mogul Stanley Ho Hung-sun has been delayed by technical problems.
The DrHo.com Web site - which promises a James Bond world of 'excitement, international adventure, luxury, thrills and power' - was scheduled to have been launched this summer but is still in demonstration mode a month after summer ended.
The site's managers, a local company linked to Mr Ho and a Canadian Internet company called Eyeball.com, say the project is still in the pipeline but they do not have a launch date.
'Given the reputation of Dr Ho, we will not begin public operations until we are completely satisfied that our site visitors will be completely satisfied,' DrHo.com general manager Peter Kjaer, who is married to Mr Ho's daughter Angela, told the Post yesterday from the United States.
'Otherwise, we could have launched during the summer.
'The project is going ahead at full speed and our state-of-the-art software is currently being professionally tested.'
Visitors to the site, which offers a world of glamour and girls and presents Mr Ho as a pirate-fighting folk hero, are still being told on the site: 'The first and only real-time gaming and entertainment site on the Net launches in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, Tokyo and the US in summer 2000.'