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Macau Visitation Up 0.7% in April April visitation to Macau was up 0.7% year on year to 2,398,340, according to official figures released today. The result…
Friday, 24 May 2013
Toronto Says No to Casino After a year of contentious debate, Toronto City Council has voted overwhelmingly to kill a proposed multibillion-dollar downtown casino. The…
Friday, 24 May 2013
Caesars Taking WSOP Online Caesars Entertainment Group is mapping plans to take the celebrated World Series of Poker into Nevada’s new regulated real-money poker…
Friday, 24 May 2013
India Responds To Match-Fixing Scandal India’s sports minister is seeking a law to criminalize match-fixing after test cricketer Shantakumaran Sreesanth and two other players were…
Friday, 24 May 2013

Venetian Named 'Best' Among South Asians The Venetian Macao’s increasing popularity among South Asian visitors got a boost recently with accolades from one of the region’s…
Monday, 20 May 2013
14 Busted in Singapore Scam Eleven men and three women have been charged with cheating Singapore's Marina Bay Sands of nearly S$1.2 million. Arrested were…
Monday, 20 May 2013
US Visa Waiver Sought for Hong Kong Two lawmakers from the US state of Nevada have introduced a bill in Congress to allow more visitors from Hong…
Monday, 20 May 2013
SkyCity, NZ Strike Deal on Convention Center The New Zealand government has concluded an agreement with SkyCity Entertainment Group to trade construction of a convention center in…
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Olympics Target Betting in War on Corruption The battle against corruption in sports is widening in the wake of a call by the International Olympic Committee for…
Thursday, 16 May 2013

Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs Barack Obama’s Justice Department is prosecuting more overseas bribery cases involving US companies than any previous administration’s. No gaming operator or executive has yet been charged. But it does cast the highly publicized feud between Wynn Resorts and Kazuo Okada in a dangerous light. Th... Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Backwards Into the Future

Backwards Into the Future Casinos could do wonders for Japan’s ailing economy, but getting to a consensus on how to take that forward is proving difficult among a political leadership that cannot agree on what has gone before Wednesday, 16 January 2013

Snakes and Ladders

Snakes and Ladders A VIP renaissance, a booming mass market— what’s not to like in this most auspicious of Chinese New Years? Wednesday, 06 February 2013

Caught in the Net

Caught in the Net Organized crime is running up the score, rigging professional football matches at the highest levels and pocketing billions from bets placed on the outcomes. And most of it is controlled from Asia, investigators say. The question is, what can be done to stop it? Monday, 18 March 2013