Writer: Ben Blaschke — Managing Editor--IAG

02/02/21 11:00 AM

Focus on Asia: All For One, Not One For All

  • Ben Blaschke — Managing Editor, IAG
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
01/05/21 1:00 PM

Focus on Asia: A Year in Time

  • Ben Blaschke — Managing Editor, IAG
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
12/02/20 2:00 PM

Focus on Asia: Decision time in Yokohama

  • Ben Blaschke — Managing Editor, IAG
Two years after Japan passed its long-awaited IR Implementation Bill, the future of the nation’s prospective casino industry is looking... more
11/03/20 3:01 PM

Focus on Asia: Testing the limits of motherly love

  • Ben Blaschke — Managing Editor, IAG
A series of recent pronouncements by the Chinese government appear to suggest that China’s willingness to accept Macau as a “special case”... more
10/06/20 6:05 PM

Focus on Asia: Junket jitters

  • Ben Blaschke — Managing Editor, IAG
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
09/01/20 6:10 PM

Focus on Asia: Japan, we have a problem

  • Ben Blaschke — Managing Editor, IAG
Two years ago, when Japan’s upper house passed the long-awaited IR Implementation Bill into law, the global gaming industry celebrated a... more
08/04/20 6:45 PM

Focus on Asia: The industry reopens into its ‘new normal’

  • Ben Blaschke — Managing Editor, IAG
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
07/07/20 9:01 PM

Focus on Asia: Macau’s seventh heaven?

  • Ben Blaschke — Managing Editor, IAG
This commentary appears in the Premier Issue of Focus on Asia, published July 7, 2020. If there is one silver lining to emerge from the... more