Asia News - Page 95

nternational News Brief: The Hilton Taba hotel is expected to start operating its casino and some of its rooms by December following a suicide bombing at the site at the beginning of October that killed about 30 people, many of them Israeli.

International News Brief: Shun Tak Holdings, a property and entertainment group controlled by Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho's family, will rent casino space to Ho's closely held firm for a sharing of revenue from gaming tables.

International News Brief: Religious and other conservative groups have been lobbying the Singapore government, both openly and behind the scenes, against building a casino there.

International News Brief: Shares of Genting Bhd, Asia's biggest publicly traded casino group, rose to an eight-month high on expectations that its plan to develop Las Vegas-style casinos in Britain with the UK's Stanley Leisure Plc will bolster profit.

International News Brief: The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. may well be a thing of the past, if the groundswell of support for its abolition at the House of Representatives hits a crescendo.

International News Brief: The Securities and Futures Commission,worried about frenzied buying of micro-cap companies that claim to have gambling and hotel-related interests in the Macau, is investigating several brokerage houses and recent company announcements.

International News Brief: Las Vegas Sands said it expects to spend $1.8 billion on its planned Venetian Macau casino resort, roughly doubling figures previously offered by its executives and dwarfing the budget of any other announced project in the territory.

International News Brief: On Dec. 23, casino mogul, Stanley Ho, opens his Greek Mythology Casino to fend off competition from Las Vegas newcomers.

International News Brief: A former Malaysian princess is alleged to have racked up millions in gambling debts at the Ritz casino in London.

International News Brief: Sri Lanka has slapped sin taxes on casinos, alcohol and luxury goods and increased fines while granting a 40 percent salary increase to state employees despite a ballooning budget deficit.

News Brief: Investors have been advised to tread warily around Macau plays, with analysts warning that many of the small listed firms joining the foray into property, hotel and gambling businesses have already made unsustainable price gains.

News Brief: According to analyst, Marc Falcone, China’s new policy allowing Chinese emigrants to take personal assets out of the country will help the gaming international gaming market.

The owner of the Venetian is facing another lawsuit related to the company's lucrative casino in the Chinese enclave of Macau.

International News Brief: The South Korean tourism agency on has selected three additional casinos for foreigners, two in Seoul and one in the southeastern port city of Pusan.

nternational News Brief: At the $265 million Sands Macau, the first Las Vegas-style casino in Asia, gamblers spend $1.37 million on average each day. Profit equals an annual 100 percent return on investment for owner Las Vegas Sands Corp., according to gaming analyst Jonathan Galaviz.

International News Brief: Kerry Packer has joined forces with one of Asia's most colourful businessmen, casino tycoon Stanley Ho.

International News Brief: The Hong Kong Liberal Party wants to build European-style tourist-only casinos on Lantau Island.

International News Brief: Singapore's plan to build a controversial casino received backing Wednesday from a panel advising the city-state's tourism board.

International News Brief: Cruise ship operator Macau Success has teamed up with casino tycoon Stanley Ho's Sociedade de Jogos de Macau to build a HK$1.2 billion theme park in Macau's Inner Harbour area.

International News Brief: Glittery Las Vegas gambling has arrived in seedy Macau, promising new charms for China's inveterate players, and this former Portuguese colony may never be the same.