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_2013-03-21
  Steve Jacobs, the former head of Las Vegas Sands operations in Macau who is suing the company for wrongful termination, alleged that Sands chairm

_2013-03-21
  William Hill, the British bookmaker, completed its $750 million acquisition of Sportingbet's Australian business. "The Australian business offers

_2013-03-21
  Police are investigating reports that a foreign high roller won $33 million in a VIP area of the Crown Melbourne Casino through cheating at eig

_2013-03-21
  Half of Kathmandu's eight casinos have failed to submit details about their owners and employees to police two weeks after a deadline for disclos

_2013-03-21
  A trust fund that holds part of the salaries of Taiwanese professional baseball players as a deterrent to match fixing now holds more than $2.6 m

_2013-03-21
  The head of the international group seeking to develop a casino resort on the Taiwan-controlled island of Matsu said the project stands to make M

_2013-03-21
  The coaches of the 10 teams in the Korean Basketball League apologized and took responsibility for a match-fixing scandal that led to the arrest

_2013-03-21
  Greg Fermont, a veteran of several gambling-related companies in the Philippines, has been recruited to be chief operating officer of Bodog Asia,

_2013-03-21
  Melco Crown (Philippines) Resorts Corp. (PH:MCP), the local unit of Macau's Melco Crown Entertainment, has filed with regulators to sell up to 1.

_2013-03-21
  Ayala Land Inc., the largest Philippine property developer, has ruled out joining other major local companies pushing into the gambling industry.

_2013-03-21
  Universal Entertainment Corp has concluded that a $25 million payment to a consultant with ties to Philippine gaming regulators was unjustified.

_2013-03-21
  Police arrested four men allegedly operating illegal gambling machines at three sites in two Sabah towns. The police seized 34 computers in the r

_2013-03-21
  Police raided two alleged illegal gambling dens in the Geylang area, arresting a total of six men. Four were arrested in the first raid, with one

_2013-03-21
  Liu Han, a Chinese businessman with stakes in listed mining companies in Australia, the US, Canada and China, has been detained by Beijing police

_2013-03-21
    China Sports Lottery certified six companies to supply lottery and betting terminals as it prepares to replace its existing 130,000 machines

_2013-03-21
  Dealers show the least satisfaction of any worker group, according to an annual survey by the Institute for Sustainable Development of the Macau

_2013-03-21
  The latest US State Department International Narcotics Control Strategy Report said that Macau casinos are being used to launder the proceeds fro

_2013-03-21
  Gross gaming revenues for the first 17 days of March put the city on pace for growth of at least 24 percent for the full month, according to rese

_2013-03-21
Published in: Latest Intelligence   Facebook plus gambling is a formula that makes investors salivate. This week, Virtual Gaming Worlds, an Australian startup, raised $2.6 million just a month after crowdsourcing website Kickstarter pulled the plug...

_2013-03-15
Published in: Latest Intelligence   Here are some of the highlights from the three-day conference iGaming Asia, which covered everything from social gaming to Asian operator strategies to operational issues involved in doing business in Asia:   Social The...

_2013-03-07
Published in: Latest Intelligence     "All options are on the table" at the Ho Tram Strip, according to a spokesman, after the developer of the planned casino resort cluster along a secluded sandy bay in Vietnam and MGM Resorts canceled an agreement...

_2013-03-07
Published in: Latest Intelligence   Hello Myanmar! There’s nothing like the visit of a US president to a former pariah state to energize the Asian investment community. Scarcely a day goes by in Singapore, Hong Kong and other regional financial...