May 22, 2013
| Edition Nº2238 / Year
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Trade Minister and Education Minister
Japan
| 26/04/2013
(Japan).- Two of Japanese cabinet ministers were appointed advisers to a pro-gambling group of politicians, possibly smoothing the way for the legalization of casinos after past efforts failed to gain sufficient lawmaker support.
Growth forecast between 8 and 15%
Macau
| 26/04/2013
(Macau).- Wells Fargo and Sterne Agee analysts have different estimates for April’s full-month gross gaming revenue. While Wells Fargo senior analyst Cameron McKnight forecasts growth will be between 13 and 15 % year-on-year, Sterne Agee’s David Bain says it will be around just 8%.
Said Templeton Emerging Markets Group’s Mark Mobius
Macau
| 26/04/2013
(Macau).- Casino companies in Macau will gain from expanding family entertainment as the city seeks to become China’s top leisure spot, said Templeton Emerging Markets Group’s Mark Mobius. Casino operators have been adding shopping malls, spas and shows to woo middle-class family-oriented visitors who provide wider margins.
VIP market accounted for us$ 7.2 billion
Macau
| 25/04/2013
(Macau).- The Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau has released its Macau casino figures for the first quarter of 2013, revealing a 14.8% increase in gross gaming revenue to us$ 10.66 billion compared to the same quarter in 2012.
Next May 22-23, in Macau
Macau
| 25/04/2013
(Macau).- At next month’s G2E Asia show in Macau, DLV will present its new Hybrid cabinet to the Asian market for the first time. This cabinet was developed by the Latvian company in conformity with all the latest gaming standards and has already received positive comments at ICE Totally Gaming in London.
It will be shown at G2E Macau
Macau
| 25/04/2013
(Macau).- FutureLogic announced the launch of its Ticket2Go ticket-out solution for the Asian market. This solution offers a networkless ticket-out payment solution for machines that have a serial or parallel coin hopper, making it the only ticket-out payment solution that works with both state-of-the-art as well as legacy machines.
According to ratings agency Fitch
Macau
| 24/04/2013
(Macau).- Ratings agency Fitch says it is “likely” that new markets in Asia “will liberalise gaming laws over the next decade”. In a report issued this week, Fitch says that Singapore’s recent success in legalising gambling “has prompted Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Cambodia and others to consider expanding or setting-up casinos”.
Galaxis Bonusing Module and SYSTEM2go also on show
Macau
| 24/04/2013
(Macau).- Spielo International’s showing at its distributor RGB’s booth number 213 at G2E Asia at will feature three slot games based on the PopCap mega-brand, new diversity multigame suites and popular core games. On the casino systems side, the spotlight is on several Galaxis modules, in particular Galaxis Bonusing, the new Galaxis Analytics, as well as System2go for multi-site slot operations.
On stand number 243
Macau
| 24/04/2013
(Macau).- Amatic Industries will be exhibiting at upcoming G2E Asia in Macau, next May 21-23. “This premier Asian gaming event is the perfect location for operators to learn more about the firm’s multi-roulette gaming alternative,” said the firm. The Grand Jeu Double is a fully automatic roulette with ten player positions that incorporates two roulette wheels.
For failing to pay fees
Nepal
| 24/04/2013
(Nepal).- Nepal’s Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA) would start a process to scrap casino operating licenses of the country’s five-star hotels that failed to pay taxes and fees by the deadline set by the government, said Ranjan Krishna Aryal with the legal division of MoCTCA.