11/29/19 The Hotel 13 suffered heavier losses than expected According to the company, the loss over the six-month period that ended on September 30 reached HKD506.7 million ($64.7 million).
11/28/19 Macau: tourism to grow beyond casino’s activities The MGTO delivered a masterplan to promote Macau’s attractions but not involving gaming facilities, in order to grow in new visitors
11/28/19 China: largest fine for illegal gambling transfers Chinabank Payments, a unit of e-commerce company JD.com, has been penalized for illegally transferring foreign currencies oversea
11/28/19 Macau: GameSource wins Innovation Gold Awards The awards event has been recently certified as an internationally recognised award by the United Kingdom for presence in the International Competitions
11/28/19 Foreign visitors may be required to pay taxes for their casino winnings The plan is to check which tourists have to pay taxes when they leave the country.
11/27/19 MGM Resorts confirmed its partnership with Osaka for RFP process Japanese financial services group Orix Corporation will also be partnering with the city in the process.
11/26/19 Macau’s government advised gaming operators to reinforce measures for data protection Violent crime cases increased 16.2 per cent in Macau in the nine months compared to the same period of 2018
11/26/19 MGM will take part in a RFP process in Osaka It was the first city to reveal its plan in the Japanese race for an Integrated Resort
11/26/19 Galaxy answered to eight Japanese cities and prefectures requests Galaxy wants to bid for multiple IR locations in Japan and is the only company trying to get both major urban
11/26/19 Osaka revealed its conditions for the IR Japan won’t accept IR certification applications until January 2021 and the three locations will be decided in the end of the year
11/26/19 The final decision in Hokkaido remains undefined Suzuki met on Monday with representatives of eight business organizations that are lobbying him to make an IR bid as soon as possible
11/22/19 Kitakyushu joins the IR race Mayor Kitahashi expressed interest in the IR proposals, but has not moved off of his neutral stance at this point
11/22/19 The Democratic Party of Kanagawa opposed to the Yokohama IR The Head Quarters will make some activities to see if the local people agree with the IR or not.
11/20/19 Japan: local authorities IR proposals start in January 2021 They are able to present their proposals till July 30
11/19/19 Osaka: the recruitment process for the IR operator starts in December The idea of the Osaka prefecture and city is to named the winning operator next spring.
