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_2021-04-01
Macau’s gaming operators have been reminded to remain neutral and impartial, and to avoid any form of campaigning ahead of this year’s legislative assembly election. 

_2020-07-07
The prospect of Tokyo belatedly throwing its hat into the ring of Japan IR development was kept alive on Sunday by the landslide victory of incumbent

_2020-01-06
Philweb Corporation president Dennis Valdes is stepping down from his role as president, and moving to Alphaland Corporation, a real estate firm chair

_2019-05-15
All of Goa’s major political parties have taken a stance against offshore casinos in the River Mandovi, demanding they shut down and/ or remove them

_2019-04-15
On Sunday, the official campaign period began for the second round of the Unified Local Elections, which will include mayoral elections in Sasebo and

_2019-03-11
The troubling scenario of political instability that first reared its head in late December has come to pass—Osaka Governor Ichiro Matsui and Osaka

_2018-11-26
Yoshinobu Nisaka defeated his anti-casino opponent Masayoshi Hatanaka to win a fourth term as Governor of Wakayama Prefecture, thus clearing the polit

_2018-02-04
On a night in which the conservative Abe government and its allies swept to victory across the board in several major local elections, incumbent Nagas

_2018-01-14
Nagasaki Governor Hodo Nakamura faces an electoral challenge from a candidate affiliated with the Japan Communist Party as he seeks a third term. Gove

_2018-01-08
The Tasmanian Liberal Party has promised to keep poker machines in Tasmanian pubs and clubs if it is returned to power in the upcoming March election,

_2017-10-22
Despite lagging personal popularity, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was able to guide Japan’s ruling coalition to yet another crushing supermajority in g

_2017-10-17
Japan’s general election will not be held until next Sunday, October 22, but the implosion of the leading opposition party virtually guarantees anot

_2017-09-19
Members of the Abe government and the ruling party confirmed to the Japanese media that no progress would be made on passing either the gambling addic

_2017-09-18
With Typhoon Hato moving into the rearview mirror, the city’s Legislative Assembly elections – held last Sunday - have yielded some surprising res

_2017-09-16
It has become more likely that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will dissolve the extraordinary Diet session scheduled to begin at the end of this month and

_2017-08-12
The activities of Goa’s onshore and offshore casinos will be closely monitored over the rest of August, with the by-elections in Panaji coming up la

_2017-07-30
Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi won her third term by a comfortable margin in Sunday’s elections, seeing off a challenge from two candidates who had b

_2017-06-20
City Councillor Hirotaka Ito has become the third candidate to throw his hat into the ring for the July 30 election for the Mayor of Yokohama, a major

_2017-05-10
Macau’s gaming operators have been reminded to stay neutral and not to interfere with the upcoming Legislative Assembly Election, as part of electio