Apr 09, 2021
Lotte Tour Development Co Ltd has closed its Jeju Lotte Tour Casino on the southern coast of the South Korean holiday island of Jeju, with effect from Friday morning. That was in preparation for moving the gaming licence to the group’s new foreigner-only casino at the new Jeju Dream Tower complex...Apr 07, 2021
Michael Rumbolz (pictured) is to become chairman of casino technology supplier Everi Holdings Ltd, in addition to his role as chief executive, due to the pending retirement in mid-May of...Apr 06, 2021
Casino equipment provider Scientific Games Corp unveiled last week its latest cabinet, called Mural (pictured in an artist’s rendering). It features a dual curved display and has 4K...Apr 09, 2021
Lawrence Ho Yau Lung (pictured), chairman and chief executive of Macau casino operator Melco Resorts and Entertainment Ltd, has been awarded American depositary shares with a market value of US$10 million, according to...Apr 08, 2021
Macau’s Judiciary Police announced on Thursday that they had broken up a scam ring allegedly specialising in the use of ‘bank-teller training notes’ (pictured) in order to cheat gamblers in the city. The...Apr 08, 2021
Moody’s Investors Service Inc says it expects casino operators MGM Resorts International and Wynn Resorts Ltd to pursue new “large, high profile” development opportunities “around the world,” which would...Apr 08, 2021
Casino investor Melco International Development Ltd has granted share options to directors and “certain employees” of the company that are worth in aggregate about HKD16.4 million (US$2.1 million), according to a...Apr 06, 2021
Metro Manila (pictured in a file photo), home to the Entertainment City zone of large-scale private-sector Philippine casino resorts, will remain under lockdown – or enhanced community quarantine, as the measure is...Mar 31, 2021
Philippine casino operator Bloomberry Resorts Corp has confirmed that the firm’s chairman and chief executive, Enrique Razon, and some of the group’s units have been sued in the U.S. District Court of the Southern...Mar 31, 2021
The Philippine casino regulator has confirmed to GGRAsia that all casinos in the Metro Manila area (pictured) – public-sector as well as private-sector ones – have currently suspended gaming operations due to the...Mar 31, 2021
Japanese gaming conglomerate Universal Entertainment Corp says it has terminated a deal to sell a plot of land close to the Okada Manila casino resort (pictured) in the Philippine capital, Manila. The company said it...Apr 09, 2021
Earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) at casino operator Genting Singapore Ltd are likely to remain below 2019 levels this year and in 2022. That is according to a new credit opinion...Apr 07, 2021
The chairman and chief executive of Malaysian conglomerate Genting Bhd, Lim Kok Thay (pictured), says there are signs of “nascent recovery” in gaming across Asia. The veteran tycoon however warned of “significant...Mar 29, 2021
Casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp (LVS) is said to have set up a special committee to assess potential breaches of anti-money laundering (AML) procedures at its Singapore property, Marina Bay Sands (pictured),...Mar 26, 2021
Genting Singapore Ltd, the promoter of Singapore’s Resorts World Sentosa casino complex, says the company’s executive chairman, Lim Kok Thay, received less than SGD5 million (US$3.7 million) as his...Apr 06, 2021
Japan’s Osaka prefecture said on Tuesday that no fresh private-sector suitor had come forward as a result of the extension of its request-for-proposal (RFP) process concerning the metropolis’ tilt at having a...Apr 06, 2021
The Japan Casino Regulatory Commission announced on Friday a draft version of its intended enforcement regulations. The information was published in a statement on the regulator’s website. A period of public...Mar 31, 2021
Japanese gaming conglomerate Universal Entertainment Corp says it has terminated a deal to sell a plot of land close to the Okada Manila casino resort (pictured) in the Philippine capital, Manila. The company said it...Mar 23, 2021
The Nagasaki authorities say investors in entities that have qualified for the next portion of the prefecture’s partner-selection process in its tilt at a casino resort, would not be allowed to participate in...Apr 09, 2021
Lotte Tour Development Co Ltd has closed its Jeju Lotte Tour Casino on the southern coast of the South Korean holiday island of Jeju, with effect from Friday morning. That was in preparation for moving the gaming...Apr 09, 2021
The Public Security Department in mainland China’s Guangdong province has urged residents involved in “cross-border gambling crimes” to “turn themselves in” to the authorities by April 30, it said in a...Apr 09, 2021
Chinese police have investigated “more than 17,000 cross-border gambling and related cases” since 2020, when a series of national and special operations to tackle this type of activity was launched. That is...Apr 08, 2021
Won Hee-ryong, governor of the Jeju Special Self-governing Province in South Korea, signed on Thursday morning a document considered mandatory before Lotte Tour Development Co Ltd can transfer its foreigner-only casino...Apr 08, 2021
Moody’s Investors Service Inc says it expects casino operators MGM Resorts International and Wynn Resorts Ltd to pursue new “large, high profile” development opportunities “around the world,” which would...Apr 01, 2021
Malaysia-based gaming conglomerate Genting Bhd says two subsidiaries are to issue US$350-million worth of senior notes, primarily toward repaying borrowings linked to the Resorts World Las Vegas casino project in...Mar 31, 2021
Philippine casino operator Bloomberry Resorts Corp has confirmed that the firm’s chairman and chief executive, Enrique Razon, and some of the group’s units have been sued in the U.S. District Court of the Southern...Mar 30, 2021
A unit of United States-based Global Gaming Asset Management LLC (GGAM) has filed a lawsuit in New York, in the United States, against Enrique Razon (pictured), chairman and chief executive of Philippine casino operator...Apr 01, 2021
Possibly only a “couple” of Macau’s VIP gaming...Mar 18, 2021
Vietnam’s large-scale casino resorts are not likely to...Mar 12, 2021
Key regulatory issues on casino gaming to be addressed by...Jun 05, 2020
Singapore’s plan to establish by 2021 a new body known as...May 25, 2020
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110,000
Total number of suspects "apprehended" by Chinese police since 2020 as part of its anti- cross-border gambling operations