By Nopporn Wong-Anan SINGAPORE, March 18 (Reuters Life) - The world's fourth Universal Studios welcomed its first visitors on Thursday with a lavish ceremony aimed at attracting luck, and repeat business, to the Singapore theme park which hopes to avoid the fate of loss-making Hong Kong Disneyland.Doors were flung open to the public at precisely 08:28 a.m. on March 18, after 18 Chinese lions blazed through the entrance at 08:08 a.m., as the number 8 is considered by many in mostly ethnic Chinese Singapore as auspicious. Full Story
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