GGRAsia – Rest of Asia

Japan, Thailand hot gaming topics for 2023 thinks Spectrum

Oct 06, 2022 Newsdesk Latest News, Rest of Asia, Top of the deck, World

Spectrum Gaming Group LLC, a specialist consultancy on probity and legal compliance in the regulated casino sector, has issued its “Top Ten Trends To Watch for 2023”, including likely events in...

Vietnam govt asked to extend local play to 2025 at Corona

Oct 06, 2022 Newsdesk Latest News, Rest of Asia, Top of the deck

The Kien Gang provincial government in Vietnam is to ask the country’s Ministry of Finance to extend by three years the pilot scheme utilised by Corona Resort and Casino (pictured) on the island of...

Paradise Co, GKL big yearly gains in Sept casino revenue

Oct 05, 2022 Newsdesk Latest News, Rest of Asia, Top of the deck

Gaming revenue at Paradise Co Ltd, an operator in South Korea of foreigner-only casinos, rose by 312.9 percent year-on-year, to KRW39.17 billion (US$27.6 million). But such revenue was down 22.4...

NagaCorp 3Q GGR down 16pct q-o-q, but upbeat on market

Oct 05, 2022 Newsdesk Latest News, Rest of Asia, Top of the deck

Third-quarter casino gross gaming revenue (GGR) at Cambodia operator NagaCorp Ltd fell 16.3 percent sequentially according to a non-statutory filing on its nine-month results made to the Hong Kong...

Some in Macau Suncity trial separately jailed by mainland

Sep 30, 2022 Newsdesk Latest News, Macau, Rest of Asia, Top of the deck

Two defendants in the Macau criminal court case related to former Macau junket brand Suncity Group Ltd were on Friday jailed by a court in Zhejiang province, mainland China. One of them, Cheung Ning...

GEN Highlands 1H visits soar y-o-y, new themed rides 4Q

Sep 27, 2022 Newsdesk Latest News, Rest of Asia, Top of the deck

Visitor volume at Resorts World Genting, Malaysia’s only casino complex, based at Genting Highlands, more than quadrupled year-on-year in the six months to June 30, to 9.9 million, from 2.1...

Sun Hung Kai holds Summit shares as a LET loan guarantor

Sep 26, 2022 Newsdesk Latest News, Rest of Asia, Top of the deck

Hong Kong-based financial services company Sun Hung Kai & Co Ltd is among entities and individuals named as holding in combination just under 70 percent of the shares of Russian casino backer...

GEN Malaysia stable outlook on robust recovery, says Fitch

Sep 26, 2022 Newsdesk Latest News, Rest of Asia, Top of the deck

Fitch Ratings Inc has revised its outlook on the long-term issuer default ratings of casino operator Genting Malaysia Bhd to ‘stable’, from ‘negative’. The ratings agency has also...

Grand Ho Tram Strip boost via new Vietnam airport: CEO

Sep 23, 2022 Newsdesk Latest News, Rest of Asia, Top of the deck

A new multibillion U.S. dollar international air hub being built east of Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City should roughly halve the current airport transfer time for international visitors to The Grand Ho...

Thai police seize US$12mln assets of online bet gang: report

Sep 23, 2022 Newsdesk Latest News, Rest of Asia, Top of the deck

Thai police have confiscated the equivalent of more than US$12.3 million in assets and cash allegedly linked to an online gambling syndicate said to have had a network of operations across the...