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Yokohama announces RFP timeline for casino bid

Yokohama announces RFP timeline for casino bid

Jan 22, 2021 Newsdesk Japan, Latest News, Top of the deck  

Japanese metropolis Yokohama (pictured) announced on Thursday the timeline for its request-for-proposal (RFP) stage for the city’s tilt at having a casino complex or integrated resort (IR). The RFP...
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Wakayama casino RFP deadline affirms still 2 suitors

Wakayama casino RFP deadline affirms still 2 suitors

Jan 18, 2021 Newsdesk Japan, Latest News, Top of the deck  

Japan’s Wakayama prefecture confirmed on Friday (January 15) that no new suitors interested in being private-sector partner for the local government’s tilt at a casino resort, had come forward to...
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Hokkaido governor restates no Japan casino bid

Hokkaido governor restates no Japan casino bid

Jan 15, 2021 Newsdesk Japan, Latest News, Top of the deck  

Naomichi Suzuki, the governor of Japan’s Hokkaido prefecture, reiterated on Thursday that his local authority is not going to seek in the current phase of market liberalisation, the right to host a...
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Still Asia focus for LVS post chairman death: Bernstein

Still Asia focus for LVS post chairman death: Bernstein

Jan 14, 2021 Newsdesk Japan, Latest News, Macau, Singapore, Top of the deck  

The death on Monday of Sheldon Adelson, founding chairman and chief executive of casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp (LVS), and the elevation days before, of Rob Goldstein as acting chairman and...
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Yokohama city votes against referendum on casino policy

Yokohama city votes against referendum on casino policy

Jan 08, 2021 Newsdesk Japan, Latest News, Top of the deck  

A plenary meeting on Friday of Yokohama city council, voted against a draft ordinance calling for a local referendum on that Japanese city’s tilt at having a casino complex or integrated resort...
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Jan 28 deadline for Nagasaki casino RFP: local govt

Jan 28 deadline for Nagasaki casino RFP: local govt

Jan 07, 2021 Newsdesk Japan, Latest News, Top of the deck  

Japan’s Nagasaki prefecture began on Thursday - as pledged - its request-for-proposal (RFP) process regarding the possibility of getting a casino resort there. January 28 is the deadline for...
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Hoiana Phase 2 to start this year says Suncity brand

Hoiana Phase 2 to start this year says Suncity brand

Jan 06, 2021 Newsdesk Japan, Latest News, Philippines, Rest of Asia, Top of the deck  

Privately-held Macau junket investor Suncity Group said in a Tuesday press release that Hoiana (pictured in an artist’s rendering), a Vietnam casino resort that launched last year, would see a...
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MGM Japan, Macau ambition review if Entain deal says broker

MGM Japan, Macau ambition review if Entain deal says broker

Jan 05, 2021 Newsdesk Japan, Latest News, Macau, Top of the deck, World  

Were a US$11 billion-plus deal to go through for casino operator MGM Resorts International to transform its business model by acquiring online betting conglomerate Entain Plc, it could lead the MGM...
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Three foreign ops join mix for Nagasaki IR tilt: report

Three foreign ops join mix for Nagasaki IR tilt: report

Jan 05, 2021 Newsdesk Japan, Latest News, Top of the deck  

The Nagasaki Shimbun newspaper has reported that “at least three” foreign casino resort operators, described as “mid-sized”, have expressed interest in taking part in the Japanese prefecture...
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2020 pandemic forced casinos to evolve: experts

2020 pandemic forced casinos to evolve: experts

Dec 31, 2020 Newsdesk Japan, Latest News, Macau, Rest of Asia, Top of the deck  

The land-based casino business in Asia-Pacific and beyond was simply one among many commercial sectors devastated during 2020 by the Covid-19 pandemic. The economic effects on the casino industry are...
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