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MBS ArtScience Museum to host Star Wars exhibition

Jan 19, 2021 Newsdesk Latest News, Singapore, Top of the deck

The ArtScience Museum at the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) casino resort in Singapore, is to host a “Star Wars Identities” exhibition, from January 30 to June 13, according to a press release...

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...

Sheldon Adelson, self-declared casino industry iconoclast

Jan 13, 2021 Newsdesk Latest News, Macau, Singapore, Top of the deck, World

A favourite saying of casino entrepreneur Sheldon Adelson, whose death was announced on Tuesday, was: “You have to challenge the status quo, you have to change the status quo, and if you change it...

Casino entrepreneur Sheldon Adelson dies aged 87

Jan 12, 2021 Newsdesk Latest News, Macau, Singapore, Top of the deck, World

Sheldon Adelson (pictured in a file photo), the founding chairman and chief executive of casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp, died on Monday night aged 87, reportedly at his home in Malibu,...

Several RWS non-gaming sites at capacity: Genting

Dec 28, 2020 Newsdesk Latest News, Singapore, Top of the deck

Several non-gaming attractions at the Singapore casino complex, Resorts World Sentosa (RWS), were on Monday already operating at “capacity”, according to a notice on the property’s website....

Singapore Covid-19 easing positive for RWS: Maybank

Dec 15, 2020 Newsdesk Latest News, Singapore, Top of the deck

Resorts World Sentosa (RWS), one half of Singapore’s casino duopoly, is likely to have seen sequential improvement in its fourth-quarter earnings, as Singapore continues to manage its way out...

Singapore lifts restrictions for travellers from Taiwan Dec 18

Dec 14, 2020 Newsdesk Latest News, Rest of Asia, Singapore, Top of the deck

Singapore is to lift border restrictions for travellers from Taiwan starting December 18, exempting them from a quarantine period provided they test negative for Covid-19. Singapore’s...

RWS, MBS resorts accept Sing govt tourism subsidy vouchers

Dec 03, 2020 Newsdesk Latest News, Singapore, Top of the deck

Singapore casino complex Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) says it is offering Singaporeans chances to spend SingapoRediscovers Vouchers, a government-voucher subsidy scheme designed to promote domestic...

HK-Singapore air travel bubble delayed to next year

Dec 02, 2020 Newsdesk Latest News, Rest of Asia, Singapore, Top of the deck

The Hong Kong government said in a Tuesday statement that the start of a Hong Kong-Singapore air-travel bubble had been deferred to “beyond 2020” by mutual agreement between the two places, due...

Two visits to MBS by Covid carriers in last 14 days: govt

Dec 01, 2020 Newsdesk Latest News, Singapore, Top of the deck

On two different days over the past two weeks, now-confirmed Covid-19 patients made visits to the casino at Marina Bay Sands (pictured in a file photo) in Singapore, while still infectious. The news...