{"id":34843,"date":"2022-10-27T05:28:24","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T08:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=34843"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T06:31:54","slug":"genting-malaysia-warns-of-fake-news-related-to-online-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/genting-malaysia-warns-of-fake-news-related-to-online-gaming","title":{"rendered":"Genting Malaysia warns of fake news related to online gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company stressed that it is not associated in any way with online gaming sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malaysia.-&nbsp;Genting Malaysia&nbsp;has posted a warning on its website to say that it has been alerted to fake news linking the company to online gaming services. It did not detail the content of the stories, but the company stressed that it is not associated in any way with online gaming sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It warned people not to trust any links claiming to be about Genting online gaming and refrain from circulating the stories. It advised the public to visit its official websites, www.gentingmalaysia.com or www.rwgenting.com to verify any details about Genting Malaysia or Resorts World Genting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genting Malaysia has announced plans to increase the capacity of Resorts World Genting and add three new rides at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/genting-skyworlds-to-launch-next-week\" target=\"_blank\">Genting SkyWorlds theme park<\/a>, which opened this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malaysia\u2019s only casino resort saw visitor numbers&nbsp;<strong>quadruple in the first half of the year, from 2.1 million in H1 2021 to 9.9 million<\/strong>. Room sales increased nine times from 0.1 room nights to 0.9 room nights, and the IR\u2019s membership base grew from 5.2 million to 5.3 million, adding 200,000 new members year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/genting-malaysia-revenue-up-166-in-q2\" target=\"_blank\">Revenue was up 166 per cent<\/a>&nbsp;year-on-year to MYR2.18bn (US$486.5m) in the second quarter.&nbsp;<strong>Leisure and hospitality revenue&nbsp;<\/strong>in Malaysia increased five times to MYR1.31bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company stressed that it is not associated in any way with online gaming sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"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":"Genting Malaysia has issued a public warning disassociating itself from online gaming sites following reports of fake news, while simultaneously reporting robust financial and operational growth for its land-based Resorts World Genting. The integrated resort saw significant increases in visitor numbers, room sales, and revenue, prompting plans for further capacity expansion and new theme park attractions.","focusai_entities":"Genting Malaysia, Resorts World Genting, Genting SkyWorlds","focusai_location":"Malaysia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.88), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Countering Fake News?","query":"What specific measures is Genting Malaysia implementing to counter the dissemination of false information regarding its operational scope and online gaming association?"},{"label":"IR Expansion Impact?","query":"How will the planned capacity expansion at Resorts World Genting impact its GGR projections and market share within the Malaysian leisure and hospitality sector?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[19394],"class_list":["post-34843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-genting-malaysia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34843","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34872,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34843\/revisions\/34872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}