Singapore casino gives $780 mln contract to Kajima

SINGAPORE, April 23 (Reuters) - Singapore casino Resorts World at Sentosa said on Wednesday it has awarded a S$1.05 billion ($780 million) building contract to Japan's Kajima Corp and Singapore's Tiong Seng Contractors.

The contract, the largest to date for the S$6 billion casino, was awarded to a joint venture set up by Kajima and Tiong Seng, Resorts World said.

Resorts World, one of Singapore's two planned casinos, is set to be completed by early 2010, and has awarded over S$2 billon worth of building contracts so far, it said.

(Reporting by Koh Gui Qing, editing by Neil Chatterjee) ((Guiqing.Koh@Reuters.com; Reuters Messaging; guiqing.koh.reuters.com@reuters.net; +65 6403 5665)) ($1=1.347 Singapore Dollar)