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_2021-03-08
SkyCity Entertainment Group chief executive Michael Ahearne says the future lies in online and land-based gaming convergence, a comment he has made after two years of leading the company’s online efforts. 

_2021-01-28
Hong Kong-listed Oshidori International and Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment have teamed up to make a joint bid for a license to develop an IR in Nagasaki, Japan.

_2021-01-18
Nazara Technologies, whose offerings include fantasy sports and real money quizzing, has become the first Indian gaming startup to apply for a stock market listing.

_2020-09-21
Mobile Premier League (MPL) has raised $90 million in new financing and plans expansion outside India.

_2020-09-15
Dream Sports, the parent company of Dream11, has secured new funding worth $225 million, valuing the fantasy league company at $2.5 billion. 

_2020-09-11
Real money games in India are the “next big segment” seeing compound average growth of 40 percent a year, according to a report from Bernstein Research.

_2020-09-10
The amount of revenue collected from Macau’s six gaming operators has fallen to just 45.6 percent of the government’s budget given the effects of the pandemic.

_2020-09-02
The Ukrainian Gaming Week 2020 has been postponed from October to Nov. 26-27 due to the extension of quarantine measures in the country.

_2020-08-28
Centara Hotels & Resorts says it has signed three hotel management agreements for Myanmar, one of which will include a casino.

_2020-08-20
Star Entertainment Group said its domestic gaming revenue in July reached 80 percent of the prior calendar year and that investment in its properties will enhance long-term growth potential.

_2020-07-28
SJM Holdings said it doesn’t expect its revenues to return to their pre-crisis levels this year and at present it’s not possible to predict how long the Covid-19 pandemic will continue to affect its business.

_2020-06-15
The International Association of Gaming Regulators’ (IAGR) has issued a report flagging its concerns that the growing convergence between gaming and

_2020-06-08
Gaming taxes collected by the Macau government between January and May fell 56.5 percent year-on-year to MOP21 million (US$2.6 million), according to

_2020-06-05
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (PAGCOR) said it had increased its cash dividend donations to the National Treasury by P5 billion bringing the total to P17 billion ($340.9 million) for 2019. 

_2020-06-03
SkyCity Entertainment is describing trading activity in its New Zealand business since reopening on 14 May as “encouraging”. “Domestic custom

_2020-03-13
With Macau continuing to haemorrhage VIP gamblers, there has never been a greater onus on operators in the special administrative region to latch on to the relative predictability afforded by the premium and mass markets.

_2020-01-10
South Korea wants to turn the area near Incheon International Airport into a version of Manila’s Entertainment City, but its vision is at risk from competition from Japan.

_2019-12-06
The 1999 handover and casino liberalization policy put in place a new phase of development for Macau. All six casino licenses are soon set to expire and once the retendering process has been enacted, Macau will enter a crucial next phase. 

_2019-11-29
The 20th anniversary of the Macau Special Administrative region is upon us. When it comes to gaming, these were not two linear decades. There were plenty of twists and turns.