Two brokerages are anticipating year-on-year growth in Macau’s casino gross gaming revenue (GGR) will slow down in July compared to the 5.9-percent year-on-year rate recorded in the previous month. Brokerage Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd suggested in a Monday note that Macau’s July casino GGR...
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Two brokerages are anticipating year-on-year growth in Macau’s casino gross gaming revenue (GGR) will slow down in July compared to the 5.9-percent year-on-year rate recorded in the previous month. Brokerage Sanford...
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Visitor arrivals to Macau totalled nearly 20.3 million for the first half of this year, representing a year-on-year increase by 20.6 percent, according to the latest official data. The number of same-day visitors –...
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Gaming company Universal Entertainment Corp of Japan says it is introducing at its casino in Philippine capital Manila a system that enables gaming machines to accept the banknotes of various countries. Universal...
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A Philippine public spending watchdog has urged the country’s casino regulator-cum-operator to close down one of the public-sector casinos due to an accumulated PHP2.1 billion (US$41.4 million) net loss over five...
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Official data indicate that Singapore welcomed almost 7.77 million foreign visitors in the first five months of this year, 1.5 percent more than in the corresponding period last year. Figures compiled this week by the...
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New, high-quality casino resorts in the Philippines and Cambodia are more likely to be a commercial threat to Singapore’s casino duopoly than to Macau’s six-operator oligopoly. That is the suggestion of a 99-page...
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Japan’s governing coalition – featuring the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its junior partner Komeito – won Sunday’s election for the country’s upper chamber of parliament, the House of Councillors...
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Philippine media report that the Tokyo High Court has dismissed a legal bid by Japanese entrepreneur Kazuo Okada (pictured) that might have allowed him to regain control of Universal Entertainment Corp, the Japanese...
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Casino design specialist Steelman Partners LLP is handling the design of NagaCorp Ltd’s new extension to NagaWorld casino resort in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. Naga 3, to be a mix of gaming and non-gaming, will...
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Asian Coast Development Ltd (ACDL), the promoter of The Grand Ho Tram Strip (pictured), a hotel complex with casino on the Vietnam coast southeast of Ho Chi Minh City, has now confirmed a new majority owner, GGRAsia...
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The changes to the board of Australian operator of Southeast Asian casinos Donaco International Ltd mark a new phase in the group’s development, says a company spokesman in comments to GGRAsia. Shareholders of Donaco...
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Weak law enforcement and lax regulation within the Southeast Asia casino sector offer crime syndicates a ready channel for laundering illicit earnings, including those from drug trafficking, according to a...
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