Writer: Ben Blaschke — Managing Editor--IAG
Focus on Asia: Changing with the Times
A comment made by Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng in mid-April detailing Macau’s plans to amend its financial laws to allow for the... more
Focus on Asia: The Sands of Time
On 3 March 2021, Las Vegas Sands announced that it had reached an agreement to sell off its entire Las Vegas property portfolio, providing... more
Focus on Asia: Korean Calamity
At a time when casino operators around Asia are either starting to see their fortunes rise or preparing for better days ahead as vaccines... more
Focus on Asia: All For One, Not One For All
If there is one thing we have learnt from the licensing and suitability woes hovering over Australia’s Crown Resorts right now, it’s the... more
Focus on Asia: A Year in Time
A year is a long time in our usually fast-moving industry, but there is no doubt that 2020 felt much longer than most. I was pondering this... more
Focus on Asia: Decision time in Yokohama
Two years after Japan passed its long-awaited IR Implementation Bill, the future of the nation’s prospective casino industry is looking... more
Focus on Asia: Testing the limits of motherly love
A series of recent pronouncements by the Chinese government appear to suggest that China’s willingness to accept Macau as a “special case”... more
Focus on Asia: Junket jitters
It’s hard to imagine any more challenging time for Asia’s VIP junket industry than 2020. That seems quite remarkable given the devastating... more
Focus on Asia: Japan, we have a problem
Two years ago, when Japan’s upper house passed the long-awaited IR Implementation Bill into law, the global gaming industry celebrated a... more
Focus on Asia: The industry reopens into its ‘new normal’
We’re barely weeks into the first stages of reopening the global land-based gaming industry and already we are seeing instances of what is... more
