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_2013-05-30
  Australian television broadcasters agreed to a demand by Prime Minister Julia Gillard that they ban promotion of live odds and restrict gambling

_2013-05-30
  Brig. Irwanuddin, a police officer in Aceh, received six lashings with a cane in front of hundreds of onlookers at the Sabang Great Mosque in Ban

_2013-05-30
  The Widus Resort & Casino in the Clark Freeport Zone is nearly doubling its room count to 233 from 119 due to growing passenger volumes at Clark

_2013-05-30
  National Bureau of Investigation agents arrested eight foreigners, mostly Malaysians, for allegedly operating an illegal online casino from a Man

_2013-05-30
  The ombudsman filed 39 charges of corruption against Efraim Genuino, the former chairman of Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp., over the use o

_2013-05-30
  Robinsons Land Corp. has ended talks to join with Universal Entertainment Corp. as a partner in the Japanese company's $2 billion Manila Bay Reso

_2013-05-30
  Two men in Kota Kinabalu were fined M$1,000 ($326) each for possession of gambling materials. Khoo Teo Mui and Kok Jun Haw were arrested carrying

_2013-05-30
  Profits for Multi-Purpose Holdings Bhd's gaming business rose 49.8 percent to M$148.4 million ($48.9 million) on lower prize payouts and reduced

_2013-05-30
  Police arrested four women and a man and seized three electronic mahjong tables in a raid on an illegal gambling den in one private apartment and

_2013-05-30
  Dan Tan Seet Eng, the Singaporean seen at the center of a global soccer match-fixing ring, is "currently assisting the Singapore authorities in t

_2013-05-30
  Guangzhou police arrested 157 people and froze Rmb132 million ($21.4 million) in a move against a soccer betting ring after a year-long investiga

_2013-05-30
  The Social Welfare Bureau will survey local women gamblers to gain insight into female gambling addiction. The bureau commissioned the University

_2013-05-30
  Asia Entertainment & Resources Ltd. said it would offer its existing shareholders rights to purchase $63 million in new shares at $3 a share. Lam

_2013-05-30
  A trade union official said after meeting with government officials that some casinos had again failed government air checks. The Health Bureau s

_2013-05-30
  Las Vegas Judge Rob Bare raised the total due to Hong Kong businessman Richard Suen from Las Vegas Sands Corp. by $31.6 million to $101.6 million

_2013-05-30
  Macau Legend Development Ltd. has begun pre-marketing for its planned initial public offering in Hong Kong next month. The company, which owns th

_2013-05-30
  Genting Bhd reported a 22 percent decline in pre-tax profits to M$1.22 billion ($398 million) in the first quarter from a year earlier for its le

_2013-05-30
  John Redmond, chief executive of Echo Entertainment Group Ltd., accused rival Crown Ltd. of misrepresenting its proposed $1 billion Crown Sydney

_2013-05-30
Published in: Latest Intelligence   Kangwon Land tackles pent-up local demand with expansion The daily take at gaming tables in Macau may make Las Vegas stakes look like child’s play, but the Kangwon Land Casino in South Korea is where things...

_2013-05-30
Published in: Latest Intelligence   India considers reforms to gain control over sports betting and corruption   The final month of the Indian Premier League’s Twenty20 cricket tournament, which ended this week, was such a disaster that the...

_2013-05-23
Published in: Latest Intelligence   The legalization of sports betting is rising up the agenda of Asian governments because of the tremendous volume of activity involved, according to leading industry figures who gathered in Macau this week for AGB’s...

_2013-05-23
Published in: Latest Intelligence   Gaming operators investing in the Philippines won’t face a higher tax bill as a result of a recent controversial tax directive, officials from Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) assured industry figures...

_2013-05-16
Published in: Latest Intelligence   Nepal’s caretaker government may be having its difficulties with scheduling elections, but it is having some success with bringing the country’s unruly casino sector into line, paving the way for a new regulatory...

_2013-05-16
Published in: Latest Intelligence Singapore sticks to its guns on local access to casinos as one of the barriers the city state has put up to its residents seeing the inside of a casino while operators face stringent regulation with fines coming out...

_2013-05-02
Published in: Latest Intelligence The future of Manila’s ambitious attempt to challenge the casinos of Macau and Singapore has been thrown into question following a ruling by the Bureau of Internal Revenue that the country’s casino and gambling operators...

_2013-05-02
Published in: Latest Intelligence   It is hard to miss bookmaker Tom Waterhouse on Australian television. No matter the channel or the sport, be it Wimbledon or the Melbourne Cup horse race, the bookmaker is never too far away to give the latest...