02/16/21 188Bet enters partnership with Bundesliga’s Werder Bremen The partnership aims to engage Werder Bremen fans in Asia with online betting app 188Bet.
02/16/21 Kangwon Land opens after two-month closure The casino has opened again after the latest in a series of closures due to Covid-19 countermeasures.
02/16/21 Osaka wants more operators to apply for its IR project Osaka has made changes to its IR implementation policy to allow more operators to apply.
02/16/21 Macau: visitors down 76% in first days of Chinese New Year The city received 47,770 visitors in the first four days of the Spring Festival Golden Week.
02/13/21 Oshidori partners with V-Varen Nagasaki FC The Hong Kong-based financial services company has partnered with the Japanese football club V-Varen Nagasaki.
02/13/21 Study: Macau casinos should give dealers more recognition The casino dealer’s job can be challenging and employees aren’t always able to see their own success, the study says.
02/12/21 Mohegan looks to resume work on Korean casino project The US developer and operator says it is confident it will have the funds to resume construction at Inspire Korea within three months
02/12/21 Macau starts Covid-19 vaccination plan The first 595 residents have been vaccinated and more than 4,000 have registered to receive their first shot.
02/11/21 MGM China returns to positive EBITDA MGM’s casino resorts in Macau returned to positive EBITDA in the last quarter of 2020.
02/10/21 Macau expects between 6 and 10 million visitors in 2021 Macau authorities believe tourism to start to bounce back after Chinese New Year.
02/10/21 GKL casino sales drop 62% in 2020 The operator of foreigner-only casinos reported a loss of KRW64.33bn (US$57.6m), compared to profit of nearly KRW72.40bn in 2019
02/10/21 Macau GGR drops to US$187.8m in first week of February Revenues declined against January following the usual pattern before the Chinese New Year holiday period.
02/10/21 Fifth contender named for Nagasaki IR THE NIKI and Chyau Fwu (Parkview) Group has been confirmed as the fifth group to enter Nagasaki’s request-for-proposal (RFP) process.
02/09/21 Macau still receiving hotel bookings for Chinese New Year Although the hotels have had many cancellations, new bookings from mainland China are continuing to come in.