Amid Looming Black Market Crisis, Philippines Mulls iGaming Ban
Amid a looming black market gambling crisis and the humiliating threat of being put back on the FATF international money laundering Grey…
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Flutter Pulls Junglee From Wild and Unpredicatable India Market
“Junglee” in Hindi means wild, unpredictable, literally someone or something from the jungle. The word could very well apply to India’s vast…
Exotic Not Much Profit, Wynn Resorts Posts Flatline Q2 2025
Away from its exotic headline-grabbing ventures in Macau and the U.A.E.’s Al-Marjan, Wynn Resorts reported essentially flatline results for Q2. And a…
Jacky Cheung, Who He? Macau’s Sound of Money
If entertainment in the world of gambling resorts be the sound of love and money–think Elvis–then Jackie Cheung is the crooner who’s…
Macau’s Blurred Vision: Get Out Of Town Before It’s Too Late
Hitherto it’s been world gambling’s biggest market; bigger even than storied Las Vegas. But the warning graffiti, increasingly, is being scrawled on…
One Country’s Misfortune is Another Country’s Opportunity, Vietnam Moves Into the Casino Cockpit
Just as Japan’s post-WW2 rebuild was super-powered by the outbreak of the Korean War, so too was Thailand’s society-changing tourist boom triggered…
Gambler, Gambler, Frontier Tensions Hit Thai-Cambodia Border Casinos
In scenes reminiscent of an exotic Bollywood movie, frontier tensions between “frenemies” Thailand and Cambodia are hitting the lucrative cross-border casino business….
Assessing the Asia opportunity
Kyle Wiltshire, CEO at TESTA, says Asian markets such as Japan offer tremendous potential, but operators first need to benchmark against their…
The Long Goodbye, Macau Appoints Woman as Gambling Boss
Amid ongoing uncertainty over its direction of legislative travel, Macau, the world’s richest-by-far gaming jurisdiction, has appointed Ms. Ng Wai Han as…
Flutter Hyderabad GCC Exceeds 1,000 Employees Milestone
Flutter Entertainment has announced that its Global Capability Centre (GCC) in Hyderabad, operating under Flutter Entertainment India LLP (FEI), has surpassed 1,000…