Hong Kong-listed casino services firm Macau Legend Development Ltd recorded a HKD107.5-million (US$13.7-million) loss for the first half of 2019, the company said on Thursday. That compares to a profit of HKD2.85 billion in the same period last year. The company’s first-half 2018 results had been...
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Hong Kong-listed casino services firm Macau Legend Development Ltd recorded a HKD107.5-million (US$13.7-million) loss for the first half of 2019, the company said on Thursday. That compares to a profit of HKD2.85...
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First-half profit at casino equipment and casino management services firm Paradise Entertainment Ltd fell 23.2 percent year-on-year, on revenue that actually rose 5 percent. The board of the Hong Kong-listed firm did...
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There were 25,213 dealers employed in the Macau casino industry at the end of the second quarter 2019, up 4.8 percent from the prior-year period, according to the latest survey on manpower needs and wages of the gaming...
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Chinese authorities are urging the Philippines to ban “all online gambling” generated via the Southeast Asian country. Beijing in addition has praised Cambodia for announcing over the weekend such a ban. Chinese...
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The Philippine National Police are to deploy at least two special teams to combat casino-related kidnappings in the country’s capital Manila. That is according to a report from local media outlet the Manilla...
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The operator of the Resorts World Manila casino resort (pictured) in the Philippines started on Monday its offer to public shareholders to take the business private, according to an update that day to the Philippine...
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Singapore’s Casino Regulatory Authority is hosting next week the 5th Singapore Symposium on Gambling Regulation and Crime. The event, taking place on 29 and 30 August in Singapore, features a high-profile speaker...
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The Singapore Tourism Board says tourism receipts in the city-state fell by 4.8 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2019, to approximately SGD6.54 billion (US$4.7 billion). The decline was despite a slight...
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The significant increase in bad debt reported by Genting Singapore Ltd in the three months to June 30 “dragged” on the firm’s earnings, representing a “negative surprise” and hinting to a loosening credit...
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United States-based casino operator MGM Resorts International is confident about its chances in the contest to build a so-called integrated resort (IR) in the Japanese city of Osaka. The company issued a press release...
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United States-based casino firm Las Vegas Sands Corp says it will focus on the Japanese cities of Tokyo (pictured) and Yokohama in its effort to be allowed to build a casino resort in that country. In a press release...
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The mayor in the city of Yokohama (pictured), Japan’s second-largest metropolis by population, publicly declared on Thursday – for the first time – support for getting a casino resort there. Previously her public...
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Hong Kong-listed casino services firm Macau Legend Development Ltd recorded a HKD107.5-million (US$13.7-million) loss for the first half of 2019, the company said on Thursday. That compares to a profit of HKD2.85...
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Casino operator Donaco International Ltd says it is appealing against an arbitration decision of a Cambodian tribunal that ruled the people that had sold the firm leasing rights on the Star Vegas Resort and Club in...
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Chinese authorities are urging the Philippines to ban “all online gambling” generated via the Southeast Asian country. Beijing in addition has praised Cambodia for announcing over the weekend such a ban. Chinese...
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Australian casino operator Crown Resorts Ltd saw its financial year to June 30 profit dive 28.1 percent, a result that was announced shortly after the group’s Chinese-player focused high-roller business was roiled by...
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Loss-making United States-based casino operator Empire Resorts Inc has told Nasdaq it has agreed to a merger deal to take the firm private. The deal is with entities that are ultimately controlled by Malaysia-based...
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Representatives respectively from electronic casino game manufacturers the Aristocrat group and Novomatic AG are among those due to take part in a summit on digital artificial intelligence or “AI”, organised by the...
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