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_2018-12-18
The Obayashi Corporation continues to be among the most proactive of the major construction companies hoping for a major role in the development of Osaka Yumeshima.

_2018-12-18
The Macau government has passed an amended law that bans casino workers from entering the properties outside of working hours.

_2018-12-18
Australasian casino and hotel operator SKYCITY Ltd has beefed up its management team with two new appointments for Asian sales and in property management.

_2018-12-18
Sands China’s Venetian resort will host a PUBG invitational tournament in January as operators in Macau begin to embrace the potential of eSports.

_2018-12-18
Former Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, the man who launched the casino legalization movement in Japan almost twenty years ago with his Tokyo waterfront casino concept, no longer believes that Japan’s capital city needs such a development.

_2018-12-17
In their current state, Osaka police are woefully underprepared for hosting the 2025 World Expo and an IR on the island of Yumeshima, and a significant police reorganization may be needed, the Sankei Shinbun has pointed out.

_2018-12-17
Universal Entertainment has released a revised business results forecast for the calendar year 2018 which is sharply lower than what it had projected in May.

_2018-12-17
The Philippine Department of Justice (DOJ) has recommended the filing of charges against Kazuo Okada for allegedly misappropriating over $3 million fr

_2018-12-17
India’s Union Minister of Law and Justice, Ravi Shankar Prasad, reiterated to the upper house of parliament that the Law Commission of India has recommended a complete ban on gambling.

_2018-12-17
Genting Bhd Chairman and CEO Lim Kok Thay said the operator would be interested in bidding for a license in Macau should the government open the market to further entrants during the concession renewal process, local media reports.

_2018-12-17
Tiger Resorts & Leisure has been ordered to re-submit its tender offer to minority shareholders in Asiabest Group to disclose factual information about civil and criminal proceedings involving its directors in Hong Kong.

_2018-12-17
Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut recorded an 8 percent year-on-year drop in revenue to $35.3 million in November, marking the sixth consecutive month of decline.

_2018-12-17
Harumi Takahashi has confirmed that she will be stepping down as governor of Hokkaido Prefecture next spring, a serious blow to prospects for a local IR bid.

_2018-12-14
Police have raided seven online lottery centres in central Mumbai, arresting 11 for evading the Goods and Services Tax by issuing hand written tickets

_2018-12-14
Paradise Entertainment said it has entered into a supply agreement for next year, worth a maximum of HK$40 million, with Chairman Jay Chun’s brother-in-law.

_2018-12-14
Genting Bhd’s majority shareholder, the Lim family, has increased its stake in the gaming to plantations company, buying a further 300,000 shares, according to a filing with Bursa Malaysia.

_2018-12-14
Scientific Games Corporation said it has reached a settlement in its litigation with Shuffle Tech International LLC and other plaintiffs, agreeing to pay 45 percent of the compensation amount awarded in an August ruling.

_2018-12-13
Delta Corp has filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court calling on the government of the Union Territory of Daman to grant the company a license to operate a casino at its five-star property in the region.