August visitor arrival numbers to Macau fell slightly, due to “the catastrophic typhoon on 23 August”, the city’s Statistics and Census Service announced on Friday. Tourist arrivals for August totalled 2,866,400, down by 0.6 percent year-on-year. The tally of same-day visitors went down by...
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August visitor arrival numbers to Macau fell slightly, due to “the catastrophic typhoon on 23 August”, the city’s Statistics and Census Service announced on Friday. Tourist arrivals for August totalled 2,866,400,...
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Macau casino operator Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd has confirmed to GGRAsia that its Broadway Macau property (pictured in a file photo) on Cotai is to reopen fully on September 25 – a month after it closed...
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Japanese brokerage Nomura is revising upward its 2017 and 2018 estimates for a key performance indicator at Asian casino developer and operator Melco Resorts and Entertainment Ltd. The institution’s forecast for Melco...
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A Macau court has ruled against the city’s casino regulator, saying it has no right to block access of interested parties to the list of VIP gaming promoters working with individual casino operators. The ruling, by...
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South Korea’s Sung Ho Kim (pictured) was the winner of the main event of the second Philippine leg of the 2017 edition of the Asian Poker Tour (APT). The player took home US$40,250, according to a Thursday press...
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Japanese brokerage Nomura is revising upward its 2017 and 2018 estimates for a key performance indicator at Asian casino developer and operator Melco Resorts and Entertainment Ltd. The institution’s forecast for Melco...
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The opening of Morpheus (pictured) – a fifth hotel tower – at Macau casino resort City of Dreams will enable the property to “remain competitive” in the face of new gaming venues recently opened or coming soon...
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Australia-listed casino investor Frontier Capital Group Ltd said on Friday that it is in discussions with a third party to manage the operations at the firm’s Casablanca Casino in the Clark Freeport Zone, in the...
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Casino operator Genting Singapore Plc has established a branch office in Tokyo, Japan. The announcement was made by the company on Wednesday. The firm said in a filing to the Singapore Exchange the purpose...
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There was a total of 8.54 million visits by tourists to Singapore in the first half of 2017, up by 4.5 percent year-on-year, according to data from the Singapore Tourism Board. The expansion in the number of visits by...
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Singapore saw tourism receipts increase in the first three months of 2017. The growth was due to higher visitor arrivals and spending in all major tourism components, “except sightseeing, entertainment and gaming,...
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Genting Singapore Plc reported net profit of SGD143.3 million (US$105.4 million) for the second quarter of 2017, compared to a net loss SGD10.5 million in the prior-year period. Adjusted earnings before interest,...
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The commercial success of any Japanese casino resorts would in likelihood depend on local demand for gaming, says a Thursday note from investment research firm Morningstar Inc. “Stringent curbs here [in that area]...
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Casino operator Genting Singapore Plc has established a branch office in Tokyo, Japan. The announcement was made by the company on Wednesday. The firm said in a filing to the Singapore Exchange the purpose...
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Reports that Japanese gaming entrepreneur Kazuo Okada (pictured) had been “reinstalled” as either a representative or director of privately-held Hong Kong company Okada Holdings Ltd and had “lawfully demanded”...
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A snap general election in Japan would “all but guarantee” that enabling legislation for a Japanese casino industry – commonly referred to as the IR (Integrated Resorts) Implementation Bill –...
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August sales of tickets for China’s official lottery system – the welfare lottery and the sports lottery – rose 13.1 percent, the country’s Ministry of Finance said on Friday. Aggregate sales amounted to...
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Chinese real estate developer Landing International Development Ltd said in a Thursday press release that the “official opening” of its new gaming resort project in South Korea – Jeju Shinhwa World – would be on...
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Performance of Malaysian stocks linked to consumer discretionary spending including casino gambling and air travel are likely to benefit from an uptick in consumption as the initially inhibiting effect of a local sales...
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Boutique Asian casino operator and developer Silver Heritage Group Ltd says it has had a soft opening – for hotel accommodation-only – of its Tiger Palace Resort Bhairahawa (pictured) in Nepal. “The development of...
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The casino industry lobby group the American Gaming Association (AGA) announced on Wednesday that John Breeding (pictured), founder of casino technology brand Shuffle Master Inc, would be added to its Gaming Hall of...
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Scientific Games Corp says it will expand its existing digital gaming and online gambling portfolio by buying Canada-listed sports wagering specialist NYX Gaming Group Ltd for approximately CAD775 million (US$628...
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Reports that Japanese gaming entrepreneur Kazuo Okada (pictured) had been “reinstalled” as either a representative or director of privately-held Hong Kong company Okada Holdings Ltd and had “lawfully demanded”...
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Hong Kong-listed gaming investor Imperial Pacific International Holdings Ltd on Friday said the firm’s impairment of trade receivables due from its 10 largest customers amounted to HKD1.27 billion (US$162.9 million)...
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