Fitch: Crown, Echo A-OK

Fitch Ratings says Crown Resorts Ltd. and Echo Entertainment, Australia’s top gaming companies and ongoing rivals, are holding steady credit-wise despite weaker economies and expansion plans that were made...

Published October 5, 2015

Can Australia Meet Review Deadline?

Christian Porter, newly Social Services minister in Australia, says the country’s planned review of the gaming structure and regulations is on track to be complete in December. The review...

Published October 5, 2015

Izmirlian, Bahamas Officials in Talks

Sarkis Izmirlian met with Prime Minister Perry Christie (l.) and the attorney general of the Bahamas in a last-ditch effort to save his Baha Mar resort project. The nearly...

Published October 5, 2015

Study Ordered for Israeli Casino

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (l.) ordered ministers to prepare a study of the likely socioeconomic impacts of legalizing gaming in Israel and opening a proposed casino in Eilat,...

Published October 5, 2015

Bloomberry Eyes Argentina

Bloomberry Resorts Corp., the parent company of Solaire Resort and Casino in Manila’s Entertainment City largely owned by Ricky Razon (l.), has established a subsidiary that will explore investment...

Published September 28, 2015

Baha Mar on the Ropes?

A director of the trouble-plagued Baha Mar project in the Bahamas says the termination of the project’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy status will jeopardize the $3.5 billion resort’s “commercial viability.”...

Published September 28, 2015

Betting Limit Increase for B.C. Lottery May Have Been Improper

Michael Graydon, former top regulator in British Columbia, granted a betting increase for all casinos in the province a short time before being hired by a company running casinos...

Published September 28, 2015

Tasmania: Devil of a Deal

The Federal Group has announced plans to upgrade its two casinos in Tasmania, but wants an extension of its gaming monopoly to make the multimillion-dollar investment. The virulent anti-gaming...

Published September 28, 2015

Ontario Workers Locked Out

Ontario gaming regulators locked out 1,500 workers at three casinos after labor talks hit an impasse. The casinos have reopened with reduced and are being run by non-union staff...

Published September 28, 2015

Casino for Karratha?

Will there be a casino resort in Karratha, Western Australia (l.)? Parliament has confirmed receipt of a “proposal for a gaming and entertaining complex” in the rough-and-tumble industrial area.

Published September 28, 2015

OLG Chooses Great Canadian Gaming

Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation has signed a 20-year agreement with the Ontario Gaming East Limited Partnership, which will pay $50.4 million to operate gaming services in the East...

Published September 21, 2015

U.S. Washes Hands of Baha Mar’s Financial Woes

A U.S. bankruptcy court has said that the financial plight of Baha Mar Ltd. is an international issue best left to the Bahamas to settle. The Baha Mar resort...

Published September 21, 2015

Indian State to OK Casino?

Of 29 states in India, only three have legal casinos: Sikkim, Daman and Goa. A fourth state could be ready to join them. A proposal is out to construct...

Published September 21, 2015

Tasmania Casino Deal Withdrawn

A monopoly by the Federal Group has caused the owner of the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart, Tasmania, to withdraw an application to build a...

Published September 21, 2015

Aquis Unveils Canberra Plan

Aquis Entertainment, the new owner of Casino Canberra, will upgrade the Aussie property to the tune of $330 million. That includes a new casino designed to attract 750,000 more...

Published September 21, 2015

Atlantis Paradise Adding High-Limit Casino

Construction has begun on a property-wide upgrade at Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas, which will feature a new high-limit casino called Salon Privé. The casino, highlighted by a...

Published September 21, 2015

Rosewood to Baha Mar: We’re Outta Here

Rosewood Hotels and Resorts International has filed a motion to withdraw from the troubled Baha Mar project (l.) in the Bahamas. In a Delaware bankruptcy court, Rosewood said its...

Published August 31, 2015

Australia, NZ Upswing Attributed to Macau

Since the downturn in Macau’s gaming market began last June, other jurisdictions have been clamoring to turn that decline into a bonanza by luring Chinese high rollers. It seems...

Published August 31, 2015

Sun: First Year in Panama Disappointing

Sun International expected a 27 increase in earnings for the financial year to end in June, but was undermined by poor returns at its new casino in Panama and...

Published August 31, 2015

Chile to Award Gaming License

The government of Chile will decide September 10 which of two competing proposals will hold a gaming license for the city of Chillan. The winning bidder will have until...

Published August 31, 2015