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_2013-06-27
  The Judiciary Police said it had arrested 13 men as it busted the largest loan-sharking operation since Macau's 1999 return to Chinese rule. The

_2013-06-27
  Echo Entertainment Group Ltd., which operates three casinos in Queensland, has proposed that the state allow its gambling machines to accept A$50

_2013-06-27
  The Supreme Court of Victoria ruled in favor of a challenge by Tatts and Tabcorp to a combined A$84.6 million ($78 million) in levies the state s

_2013-06-27
  John Keells Holdings PLC, Sri Lanka's largest hotel operator and largest listed company by market capitalization, is in talks to buy part of one

_2013-06-27
  Three women members of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corp., the greater Mumbai city council, came to blows over the issue of the conversion of Mahal

_2013-06-27
  GigaMedia Ltd. said it is testing a new range of self-developed social casino games, with a mix of slots, poker and dice games, at more than 200

_2013-06-27
  NagaWorld has "terminated/suspended" 413 workers for participating in what the casino called an illegal strike. About 1,000 staff have been on st

_2013-06-27
  Bloomberry Resorts Corp. said it is spending 20.5 billion pesos ($468 million) on its phase "1A" expansion of its Solaire Manila Resort & Casino.

_2013-06-27
  Travellers International Hotel Group Inc. has postponed plans for a $500 million initial public offering until later this year amid volatile mark

_2013-06-27
  The last of six men said to have been part of a ring that cheated the Marina Bay Sands casino of S$92,000 ($72,000) last year have been sentenced

_2013-06-27
  The Ministry of Public Security said it had detained a suspect wanted by South Korea for allegedly operating an illegal gambling website and turn

_2013-06-27
  Louis XIII Holdings Ltd. expects construction of its namesake casino hotel complex in Coloane to be completed in early 2016, it said in reporting

_2013-06-27
  Macau Horse Racing Co., operator of the Macau Jockey Club, has reported a loss of 57.7 million patacas ($7.4 million) for 2012, up from a loss of

_2013-06-27
  Angela Leong, a director of SJM Holdings Ltd., filed her candidacy for reelection to the Legislative Assembly, heading a list of gaming executive

_2013-06-27
  Dore Holdings Ltd. reported a 42.5 percent drop in revenue to HK$25.6 million ($3.3 million) for the year ended March 31 from its interest in a V

_2013-06-27
  A.G. Burnett, chairman of the Nevada State Gaming Control Board, testified to the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission in Washington

_2013-06-27
  Macau Legend Development Ltd. cut the size of its planned initial public offering in half, to 934.8 million shares from 2.05 billion, with anothe

_2013-06-27
  Echo Entertainment Group Ltd. unveiled some details from its final proposal for a A$1.1 billion ($1 billion) expansion of The Star casino in Sydn

_2013-06-27
Published in: Latest Intelligence Genting Group has been spending billions of dollars to develop new casino resorts in places ranging from Manila to the Bahamas. The one market that has been so far left behind is, arguably, its home country of Malaysia. That...

_2013-06-27
Published in: Latest Intelligence For Delta Corp., India’s most ambitious casino operator, the calculation was simple. Changing out a bigger casino boat for a smaller one in Goa’s Mandovi River would mean more business and more revenue. Instead...

_2013-06-21
Published in: Latest Intelligence   Macau has 5,749 gaming tables and more than 27,100 dealers to man them. But that’s not enough to meet demand so operators are turning to technology to raise the number of gamblers their dealers and tables serve “Definitely,...

_2013-06-21
Published in: Latest Intelligence   Macau’s casino operators have finally all secured sites to construct major Cotai gaming resorts of their own. The next trick will be to get them all built and running. Loh Seow Yuen, managing partner at MSS...

_2013-06-13
Published in: Latest Intelligence   With local reports suggesting South Korea is about to give Caesars Entertainment Corp. approval to become the first Western casino operator in the country, rival Las Vegas Sands Corp. is hunting bigger game. The...

_2013-06-06
Published in: Latest Intelligence The subtle art of inference: Wavering regulators, a lack of explicit guidelines and standards that vary across media are among the challenges casinos face when formulating advertising and marketing  campaigns in...

_2013-06-06
Published in: Latest Intelligence     Internet cafe operator PhilWeb looks to other emerging markets and new products for future growth. The company works with state company Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. to run almost 400 “e-Games cafés”,...