The coordinated arrangements for supervising Singapore’s casino resorts are working well, a Casino Regulatory Authority (CRA) official has told an international conference. The authority posted on its website a written statement saying CRA general counsel Tan Teck Wang attended the International...
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U.S. supplier of gaming equipment Scientific Games Corp says Gavin Isaacs (pictured in a file photo) has resigned his seat on the board and the vice-chairmanship of the company. Scientific...
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Japan Cash Machine Co Ltd, known as JCM Global, says it is already ready for a casino environment in which cryptocurrency can be accepted as payment method. The firm states its...
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Jade Dragon, a Cantonese restaurant at City of Dreams Macau, a casino resort run by Melco Resorts and Entertainment Ltd, has won a third Michelin star in the 2019 edition of the “Michelin Guide Hong Kong Macau”, to...
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At least three Macau gaming labour groups say they want the city’s gaming operators to award casino resort staff a pay rise of at least 3 percent for 2019. They claim the firms would have the capacity to do so and...
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Macau casino operator SJM Holdings Ltd is looking to ask the city’s government for “300 to 500” fresh-to-market gaming tables for its Cotai project, Grand Lisboa Palace. That is according to comments from the...
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The trading of shares of Melco Resorts and Entertainment (Philippines) Corp has been suspended since Monday, after a recently-completed tender offer to take some its shares out of public ownership put its public float...
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Japanese gaming company Universal Entertainment Corp says it has completed a private placement of notes worth US$600 million that will help pay for the construction of the Okada Manila casino resort in the Philippines....
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Gross gaming revenue (GGR) in the Philippines stood slightly above PHP158.36 billion (US$3 billion) in the first nine months of 2018, says the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (Pagcor). GGR for the first nine months...
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The coordinated arrangements for supervising Singapore’s casino resorts are working well, a Casino Regulatory Authority (CRA) official has told an international conference. The authority posted on its website a...
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Brokerage Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd expects market-wide gross gaming revenue (GGR) in Singapore to reach SGD$6.20 billion (US$4.53 billion) in full-year 2018, a decline of 2.4 percent in year-on-year terms. In a note on...
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There is room for growth in the VIP rolling chip volume at Singapore’s Resorts World Sentosa despite a flat outlook for the mass-market segment at the Genting Singapore Ltd casino resort, analysts from Nomura have...
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Japanese entertainment conglomerate Sega Sammy Holdings Inc says it is seeking the “most appropriate partner” to bid for a casino resort licence in Japan. As many as three casino resorts will be permitted at...
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Proof of identity will be required for any customer of a Japan casino wishing to spend JPY300,000 (US$2,660) or more on gaming chips or other gambling tokens, reported on Wednesday the Mainichi newspaper, citing a...
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The management of Universal Entertainment Corp says it has not yet started buying back its stock in the manner it pledged. The Japanese gaming company told the JASDAQ Securities Exchange on Monday that it bought no...
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South Korean casino operator Grand Korea Leisure Co Ltd (GKL) posted strong sales in November, the firm announced on Friday. The company reported casino sales of approximately KRW41.58 billion (US$37.0 million) for that...
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Resorts World Genting – Malaysia’s only legal casino resort – launched on Thursday a virtual reality (VR) entertainment centre in collaboration with The Void LLC. Resorts World Genting is operated by Genting...
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U.S. regional tribal casino operator Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment announced on Thursday a “strategic partnership” with global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment Paramount Pictures Corp for a casino...
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Cyprus Casinos, led by Asian gaming entrepreneur Lawrence Ho Yau Lung, has opened a second casino – described as a “satellite” to the eventual main resort – in the ethnic Greek portion of the Mediterranean...
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Novomatic AG has appointed Bartholomäus Czapkiewicz (pictured) to the executive board of the company, where he will serve as chief systems officer. Mr Czapkiewicz took up that role at the Austria-based gaming...
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A partner at a Silicon Valley-based blockchain investment fund has joined Hong Kong’s Alphaslot as an advisor, after the latter completed what is described as a “multimillion U.S. dollar” round of funding....
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