Feb 20, 2019
Aristocrat Leisure Ltd says it will “vigorously defend” a United States lawsuit that argues the tokens offered in some of its free social games have a value, making them elements in what amount to games of chance. Aristocrat’s written statement said the company understands that the plaintiff,...Feb 20, 2019
Six businesses have joined the Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM), bringing the association to a record number of 172 members spread across 22 countries. AGEM announced in...Feb 12, 2019
Japan’s Sega Sammy Creation Inc says it has installed its standalone electronic gaming machine “Baccarat Maximum Fortune” at MGM Macau, the Macau peninsula property run by MGM China...Feb 20, 2019
The Macau government collected approximately MOP106.78 billion (US$13.21 billion) in direct taxes on gaming in the city in full calendar year 2018, up by 13.6 percent when compared to the previous year, according to...Feb 20, 2019
Macau casino operator SJM Holdings Ltd said in a Wednesday statement it would press ahead with a Karl Lagerfeld-branded hotel at its under-construction HKD36-billion (US$4.6-billion) Grand Lisboa Palace property on...Feb 19, 2019
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has yet to announce any policy change on a declared January 2018 moratorium on new casinos in the country. So said on Monday president spokesperson Salvador S. Panelo, as quoted by...Feb 19, 2019
The Philippine casino industry reported gross gaming revenue (GGR) of PHP187.54 billion (US$3.58 billion) in full calendar year 2018, up by 22.9 percent from the prior-year period, said the country’s gaming regulator....Feb 19, 2019
Genting Singapore Ltd has gained market share in that city’s casino duopoly in the crucial VIP gambling segment during the fourth quarter, according to brokerage Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd. Genting Singapore reports its...Feb 14, 2019
Tourists flocked to Singapore in greater numbers than ever before last year, spending a record amount on gaming, sightseeing and entertainment, says the Singapore Tourism Board. The city-state’s tourism board issued a...Feb 15, 2019
MGM Resorts International wants to build a casino resort in the Japanese prefecture of Osaka, the U.S.-based operator of casinos said on its full-year earnings call to analysts on Wednesday. “We just recently opened...Feb 12, 2019
Details of Osaka prefecture’s strategy for a so-called integrated resort or “IR” have been previewed by Japanese media ahead of a formal announcement this week. The “Osaka IR basic plan” reportedly calls for a...Feb 18, 2019
Casino resort Jeju Shinhwa World, on South Korea’s Jeju Island, is to host in March the first stop of Triton Poker’s 2019 Super High Roller Series, announced the event organiser. Jeju Shinhwa World is owned and...Feb 15, 2019
A “soft opening” in October this year is intended for the first phase of a multibillion-U.S.-dollar casino resort complex called “Hoiana” on Vietnam’s central coast, GGRAsia has learned from Andrew Lo Kai...Feb 20, 2019
Aristocrat Leisure Ltd says it will “vigorously defend” a United States lawsuit that argues the tokens offered in some of its free social games have a value, making them elements in what amount to games of chance....Feb 18, 2019
Casino design specialists Steelman Partners LLP have named Steve Anderson as the company’s new president after Ethan Nelson’s resignation in December. Mr Anderson has been a senior project designer for Steelman...Jan 18, 2019
Data showing that the overall number of repeat visitors to...Jan 02, 2019
Japan will remain the key Asian casino market to watch in...Sep 19, 2018
Nowadays, millennials, people who were born in the 1980s or...
Crown Resorts hit by big
drop in VIP gamblers
Financial Review Feb 20, 2019
Billionaire Carl Icahn wants
Caesars Ent to sell itself
Las Vegas Sun Feb 19, 2019
Mass. horse track says it should
have won Boston casino licence
LV Review-Journal Feb 18, 2019
"The opening of Morpheus only marks the beginning of the relaunch of City of Dreams"
Lawrence Ho Yau Lung
Chairman and chief executive of Asia casino developer and operator Melco Resorts