{"id":1778,"date":"2019-12-19T16:05:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T16:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:20:56","slug":"suntrust-business-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/suntrust-business-casino","title":{"rendered":"Suntrust shift in business as shareholders agreed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Company informed that will focus the business on tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Philippines.- Suntrust Home Developers Inc informed that will make a shift in business and focus on tourism after the agreement of its shareholders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In early November Suntrust delivered a statement where explained it would \u201cbuild and operate&nbsp;the hotel and areas of the casino\u201d on the \u201cWestside City Resorts\u201d project, on land near Manila Bay in the Philippine capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, the Company has the approval for the \u201cproposed amendments to the corporation\u2019s primary and secondary purposes\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suntrust\u2019s primary purpose has  been changed from real estate development to tourism-related businesses, including but not limited to \u201cacquiring, developing, improving and operating tourism-oriented facilities such as hotels, resorts, private clubs, leisure parks, entertainment centres, restaurants, food and beverage outlets, and other recreational facilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suntrust is&nbsp;a 51-percent subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed Suncity Group Holdings Ltd. An October announcement by the latter firm to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange had mentioned a&nbsp;\u201cco-development\u201d agreement&nbsp;\u2013 between Suntrust and another firm called Westside City Resorts World Inc \u2013 for the Manila casino scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suncity Group Holdings is controlled by Alvin Chau Cheok Wa, the boss of privately-held Macau junket investor Suncity Group Ltd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the October filing to the Hong Kong bourse, the Westside entity and its controlling shareholder Travellers International Hotel Group Inc are to lease the Westside City Resorts project site to Suntrust for \u201cdevelopment of the main hotel casino\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Company informed that will focus the business on tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Suntrust Home Developers Inc., a 51% subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed Suncity Group Holdings Ltd., has formally amended its corporate charter to pivot its primary business from real estate development to tourism-related operations. This strategic shift, approved by shareholders, enables Suntrust to focus on the development and operation of the hotel and casino components within the Westside City Resorts project in Manila, Philippines, under a co-development and lease agreement.","focusai_entities":"Suntrust Home Developers Inc., Suncity Group Holdings Ltd., Suncity Group Ltd., Alvin Chau Cheok Wa, Westside City Resorts World Inc., Travellers International Hotel Group Inc.","focusai_location":"Philippines, Manila, Hong Kong, Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.98), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Financial Implications?","query":"What are the projected capital expenditure requirements and anticipated GGR\/NGR contributions from the Westside City Resorts project for Suntrust and Suncity Group Holdings, and how will this impact their consolidated financial outlook?"},{"label":"Regulatory Timeline?","query":"What is the anticipated timeline for securing all requisite gaming licenses and operational permits from PAGCOR for the Westside City Resorts casino component, and what are the key compliance milestones?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,157,16333],"tags":[29,128],"class_list":["post-1778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-casino","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}