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# Muhammad Cohen

Author of Hong Kong on Air

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- [Philippine gaming chief aims to stop casino slideMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/philippine-gaming-chief-aims-to-stop-casino-slidemuhammad-cohen/) - With less than two years remaining in his term as Pagcor’s chairman and chief executive, Alejandro Tengco hopes for a happy ending. He’s working to reverse the Philippine gaming market’s slump, impacting both Asia’s only legal domestic online gaming market and billion dollar casino resorts. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Clarion Media, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.
- [Osaka casino may feel Japan tourism backlashMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/osaka-casino-may-feel-japan-tourism-backlashmuhammad-cohen/) - Visitors to Japan have more than tripled since 2014, from 13.4 million to nearly 43 million last year. Japan authorities are aiming for 60 million tourists by 2040. Noted writer Pico Iyer, who has called Japan home for 38 years, says many Japanese find escalating visitor numbers “disruptive,” prompting backlash against tourists. Anti-tourist sentiment could spill over to the MGM Osaka integrated resort project, Iyer said in an exclusive interview at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali. The US$8.9 billion Osaka project, shown above, featuring Japan’s first legal casino, broke ground a year ago and is scheduled to open in 2030. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Clarion Media, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.
- [Local play changes game at Vietnam’s Ho TramMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/local-play-changes-game-at-vietnams-ho-trammuhammad-cohen/) - Allowing qualified Vietnamese gamblers to play at The Grand Ho Tram could jump the resort and Vietnam into the top rank of Asia gaming destinations. Local players on the casino floor should energize the beachfront resort two hours from commercial capital Ho Chi Minh City with a world class golf course that convenient to a new international airport opening this year, splashing Ho Tram onto the regional map. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Clarion Media, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong n Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.
- [Top executive takes tough job at Korea’s InspireMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/top-executive-takes-tough-job-at-koreas-inspiremuhammad-cohen/) - Inspire at South Korea’s international gateway Incheon airport has hired Steve Wolstenholme as chief casino officer. Like all but one casino in Korea, gamblers must present a non-Korean passport to enter Inspire’s casino. In Asia, Wolstenholme led the openings of Okada Manila and Hoiana in Vietnam. He also served at COO of Galaxy Macau. But Wolstenholme’s skills may not be enough to overcome fundamental issues at Inspire, developed by Native American casino operator Mohegan Gaming and taken over by Bain Capital a year ago. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Clarion Media, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.
- [No plan for Macau US$13.6B non-gaming spendMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/no-plan-for-macau-us13-6b-non-gaming-spendmuhammad-cohen/) - Casino concessionaires in Macau are obliged to invest US$13.6 billion in non-gaming projects to create a more attractive, well-rounded travel destination and local economy. Beyond buzzwords such as high tech, finance and Chinese medicine, the government has no template on how to use those funds. Meanwhile, casino revenue for 2025 came in 15% percent below pre-Covid levels, a shortfall of US$5.6 billion, as concessionaires struggle to return to 2019 profit levels. Happy new year! Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Clarion Media, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.
- [Happy Philippine Flavored Felix Unger DayMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/happy-philippine-flavored-felix-unger-daymuhammad-cohen/) - Happy Felix Unger Day to all. The Philippines provides this year’s odd couple, as the world’s largest jurisdiction with legal online gambling alongside billion dollar-plus casino resorts. Unsurprisingly, online gaming revenue is growing fast while land-based revenue declines in Asia’s second largest gaming market. The best bet for Philippine retail casinos is building category killer properties in underserved areas. But online and in-person gambling appear destined to struggle to coexist in the same space as much as Felix and Oscar. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Clarion Media, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.
- [MGM roars ahead in MacauMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/mgm-roars-ahead-in-macaumuhammad-cohen/) - Under the leadership of Pansy Ho, Kenneth Feng and Hubert Wang, MGM China is topping its pre-Covid results, unlike other Macau casino operators. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Clarion Media, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.
- [#UWRF2025: Poetry out of the shadowsMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/uwrf2025-poetry-out-of-the-shadowsmuhammad-cohen/) - The Ubud Writers and Readers Festival always produces surprises. That was true of the 2025 edition that ended on Sunday. During the festival, I met poets Bella Lee from Australia and Maja Klaric from Croatia. I also got reacquainted with US poet Neal Hall, who I met at the 2012 festival. These encounters with poets in the art-infused air of Ubud inspired me to share the first poem I’ve written in decades with them, and now with you: Talking Until we can talk about What we never can talk about We have nothing to talk about. Come to the festival in 2026 to see what Ubud inspires in you. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Clarion Media, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.
- [Hard Rock jazzes up global gaming playlistMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/hard-rock-jazzes-up-global-gaming-playlistmuhammad-cohen/) - With more than 200 outlets in 76 countries and millions of tee-shirts, Hard Rock is one of the world’s most recognized brands. But its gaming arm has just two casinos outside the US. Chairman Jim Allen says Hard Rock is upping its gaming overseas and at home, including a 700 foot guitar hotel coming to the Las Vegas Strip. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Clarion Media, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.
- [#UWRF2025: Pico Iyer has eyes for you… and youMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/uwrf2025-pico-iyer-has-eyes-for-you-and-youmuhammad-cohen/) - At the Ubud Writers Festival in Bali, travel writer Pico Iyer shrugged off the idea of conflicted identity as an ethnic South Asian born in the UK that moved to California as a child: “It just means I have three sets of eyes through which to view things.” Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Clarion Media, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.
- [Thailand casino drive could reviveMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/thailand-casino-drive-could-revivemuhammad-cohen/) - Toppling Thailand’s Shinawatra dynasty stopped casino legalization in its tracks. But issues that spurred interest in integrated resorts – slowing tourism momentum, growing government debt and deficits, desire new economic drivers – have not disappeared. When there’s a new government, casinos could be back on the table. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Clarion Media, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.
- [Ubud Writers Festival Oct 29-Nov 2 spans Indonesian archipelago, six continentsMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-writers-festival-oct-29-nov-2-spans-indonesian-archipelago-six-continentsmuhammad-cohen/) - The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2025 runs October 29 through November 2 in Bali, Indonesia. This 22nd edition of the festival features a pair of Booker Prize winners, chroniclers of Indonesia’s past and dozens of writers, artists, thinkers and performers from the archipelago’s present amid their counterparts from six continents. The 2025 and 2024 International Booker Prize winners Banu Mushtaq from Indian and Jenny Erpenbeck from Germany will appear together to discuss their works and their triumphs. A lawyer and women’s rights activist, Mushtaq was awarded her 2025 Booker for short story collection Heart Lamp. She writes in Kannada, the official language of Karnataka in southwest India, and will appear with the book’s translator Deepa Bhasthi. Erpenbeck’s winning novel Kairos is a romance set amid the collapse of the East German state. Keynote speaker David Van Reybrouck wrote Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World, a history of Indonesia’s emergence as a nation in this 80th anniversary year of its declaration of independence. Award winning historian William Dalrymple chronicles Britain’s colonial East India Company in The Anarchy and highlights connections between Indonesia and the subcontinent, where he makes his home. Novelist and essayist Pico Iyer returns to Bali for the first time since 2007. Author most recently of Aflame: Learning from Silence, Iyer welcomes the festival as an opportunity to “gather to forge a fresh set of possibility. At a time when our world seems more divided than ever, nothing could be more urgent or uplifting.” Ubud Writers & Readers Festival founder and director Janet DeNeefe © Ubud Writers & Readers Festival “From humble beginnings, the festival has grown into Southeast Asiaʼs most meaningful literary event, bringing people together from near and far,” festival founder and director Janet DeNeefe says. “So, if you wish to meet fellow literary-minded folk, love a good story or performance, or are simply eager to learn more about Indonesia, then come to Ubud to experience the magic for which we are famous. “For me, our festival has been life-changing, and it can be for you.” Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Clarion Media, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.
- [Macau’s US casino owners face tough choicesMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macaus-us-casino-owners-face-tough-choicesmuhammad-cohen/) - Amid chaotic, unmistakably hostile US-China relations, American investments in multibillion dollar casino resorts in Macau look like sitting ducks. But those properties are also irreplaceable cash cows for their owners, and that’s quite a dilemma. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.
- [Hann Resorts raises the stakes in ClarkMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/hann-resorts-raises-the-stakes-in-clarkmuhammad-cohen/) - In an interview with iGaming Business, Hann Philippines chairman Dae Sik Han showcases his efforts to transform the former US air base at Clark, 100 kilometers north of Metro Manila, into a world class leisure and gaming destination featuring mountain air, open spaces, farm fresh food and an international airport. Introducing five-star properties Hann Resorts and forthcoming Hann Reserve has forced Clark rivals to raise their games in response. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com. Follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.
- [Thailand pauses march toward casino resort legalization to get regulatory structure rightMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/thailand-pauses-march-toward-casino-resort-legalization-to-get-regulatory-structure-rightmuhammad-cohen/) - Thailand’s headlong, haphazard effort to legalize casino resorts is off again. Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s government postponed submission of the so-called Entertainment Complex legislation on April 9, a day before lawmakers were due to begin debating the bill. No clarity yet on when the government will submit the bill. The government says it withdrew the legislation due to uncertainty amid US induced global economic chaos, days after an official suggested entertainment complexes could offset the impact of US higher tariffs. There’s speculation that public opposition to expanding gambling or political infighting was behind the withdrawal. Sources tell me that government officials realize Thailand must improve its regulatory framework to get leading casino companies to participate. “I think they have listened to the pros and experts and are making sure the Is are getting dotted and the Ts are getting crossed,” Bangkok based David Leppo of playexpat.com and CheckMate Mitigation says. “They have one shot at getting it right so the major players can actually open up and operate here in Thailand without risking any gaming licenses they currently have in other jurisdictions.” Leading gaming industry figures and many of Thailand’s top business groups are enthusiastic about creating integrated resorts in the kingdom. But throughout the casino legalization process, it’s been clear Thailand’s government has not done its homework to create a legal structure to support billions in integrated resort investment. This pause gives Thailand a chance fully realize its potential to create IRs to boost tourism and tax revenue. Thailand’s experience with cannabis legalization remains a sobering precedent. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.
- [Thailand pauses march toward casino resort legalization to get regulatory structure right](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/thailand-pauses-march-toward-casino-resort-legalization-to-get-regulatory-structure-right/) - Government realizes it must create a suitable regulatory framework to support multibillion dollar integrated resort investment, sources say.
- [Macau mass conversion still in progressMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-mass-conversion-still-in-progressmuhammad-cohen/) - Casino operators must sell more than gaming in the post-Covid era. (Photo provided by Melco Resorts) Macau’s gross gaming revenue reached US$28.3 billion last year, 77.5% of the 2019 total. For China-facing casino operators, pivoting from a VIP junket reliant business model to mass market tourism remains a challenge amid tougher restrictions on money movements and decreased visitation from the PRC. Several leading minds in gaming have helpful suggestions. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.
- [Macau mass conversion still in progress](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-mass-conversion-still-in-progress/) - Business and politics demand that Asia's casinos change their game.
- [CNN insider pitches softball questions, answers](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/cnn-insider-pitches-softball-questions-answers/) - In Playing Games at CNN, softball imitates life in the midst of seismic upheavals in the media landscape
- [CNN insider pitches softball questions, answersMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/cnn-insider-pitches-softball-questions-answersmuhammad-cohen/) - When I learned my former CNN colleague and teammate Jim Barnett had written Playing Games at CNN about the pioneering news network’s Washington bureau softball team, I looked forward to indulging in that DC ritual of looking for my name in the index. Alas, the book spans the years 1998-2007, beginning three years after I left Washington for Hong Kong. The book recounts how the CNN CaNiNes brought disparate elements of CNN together and gave us something to share beyond the too often tragic stories we often covered – and the tragic ways we often covered them. I remember a moment in the newsroom circa 1992 when a news anchor lamented how interest in the network was bound to diminish with the end of the Cold War. “There’s no more Big Story for us,” the anchor sighed. I theatrically unfurled a twenty dollar bill from my wallet. “Financial news is boring,” the anchor clucked dismissively, en route to becoming a major player at CNN and, to this day, in the broader media universe. I was just a writer/third baseman, watching as CNBC came along and ate CNN’s lunch ratings-wise. In 1995, I joined CNBC Asia. The late 1990s and early 2000s were far more tumultuous times with the internet challenging established media across the board. As Barnett tells it, with the light touch, dogged conviction and impeccable control of a fine newsman, pitcher and team manager, the CaNiNes and their Metropolitan Media Softball League rivals reflected that turmoil and their struggles to cope with those seismic shifts that continue to this day, as well as providing players and fans a brief respite from them. Washington ritualists take note: Playing Games at CNN has no index. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Ubud Writers Festival 2024 – Facebook turns the wisdom of the crowd into a mob: Maria Ressa](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-writers-festival-2024-facebook-turns-the-wisdom-of-the-crowd-into-a-mob-maria-ressa/) - Nobel laureate warns big tech bundles our weakest moments and sells them for profit.
- [Ubud Writers Festival 2024 – Facebook turns the wisdom of the crowd into a mob: Maria RessaMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-writers-festival-2024-facebook-turns-the-wisdom-of-the-crowd-into-a-mob-maria-ressamuhammad-cohen/) - At the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali, Nobel laureate Maria Ressa warns about the pernicious impact of “manipulated social media” on public discourse and civil society. “The wisdom of the crowd becomes a mob,” the co-founder, CEO and editor in chief of Philippine news platform Rappler.com says. Ressa questions whether good journalism still matters: “In a cacophony, in a Tower of Babel, does it really tip the scale?” Part of a festival panel on journalism, ethics and freedom of speech, Ressa places the blame on social media. “How did we get some polarized? The ‘family and friends’ algorithm.” The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient says, “Family and friends don’t necessarily have the facts.” During the term of Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte that ended in June 2022, Rappler was repeatedly sued and Ressa harassed and threatened, leading her to wear a bulletproof vest and increase corporate and personal security. “We had Duterte, who collapsed our institutions in six months,” Ressa says. “But he had a six year term limit. The biggest dictator is Mark Zuckerberg.” “People go on and on about Rupert Murdoch. I say look at the new moguls,” London Times columnist and historian Sathnam Sanghera says. “It’s completely ruined the internet,” investigative reporter at Tortoise Paul Caruna Galizia, who briefly worked at Facebook in 2011, says. “Now people can’t go on the internet or Facebook and see what they want to see. The narrowing of the internet is wildly toxic.” “What tech has done is turn politics into a football game,” Sanghera says. With a right wing press, “All the money is going into one side of the equation.” Ressa, long time CNN correspondent and former head of the Philippines’ largest news network ABS-CBN, calls it “the shitification of the internet.” She says, “Big tech takes our weakest moment and sells it for profit.” Maria Ressa delivering her Nobel Prize lecture at the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony. ©Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: Jo Straube. To “get us out of the sewer,” Ressa proposes a three point plan: stop surveillance for profit to starve the algorithm beast; stop “tearing our shared reality apart” though personalization of news feeds that reinforces even the most misguided ideas; and journalism as an antidote to tyranny. “We need the novelist, we need the artist, but first we need the facts.” “Journalists are no longer the gatekeepers of information,” broadcast journalist Drew Ambrose, who moderated the panel, says. “We can’t even agree on what’s true.” Ambose’s current Al Jazeera series Flattening the Curve looks at the role of misinformation and disinformation int the response to Covid-19 and what it means for the next crisis. “There is room for optimism,” Galizia, following in the footsteps of his assassinated mother Daphne Caruna Galizia, says. “I’ve never understood why the platforms cannot be responsible for what’s on their platforms.” As for the argument that they’re too big to police themselves, he says, “No one asked them to become that big.” “Tech encourages the worst of our humanity,” Ressa, who cooperated with Faebook when Rappler rolled out, says. “Remember the goodness is there. It’s being buried by the thirst for profit.” To help the internet recapture its goodness, Ressa and colleagues have developed an iterative chat app using the open source Matrix Protocol. It’s running in the Philippines and will be rolled out to other markets including Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia. “An atomic bomb exploded and destroyed our information system,” Ressa says, and it’s up to all of us to rebuild it. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Thailand makes unprecedented casino push](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/thailand-makes-unprecedented-casino-push/) - Putting Thai politicians in the middle of the regulatory structure won’t bring the world’s leading casino operators to the kingdom.
- [Thailand makes unprecedented casino pushMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/thailand-makes-unprecedented-casino-pushmuhammad-cohen/) - Wat Arun Ratchawararam (Temple of Dawn) – Image by Wiroj Sidhisoradej on Freepik Thailand’s drive to legalize casinos as part of large entertainment complexes strives to duplicate Singapore’s stunning Marina Bay Sands. But Thailand doesn’t seem ready to create the regulatory structure to support Singapore style integrated resorts. Perhaps it really has something different in mind. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Ubud Writers Festival: freedom, strings attached](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-writers-festival-freedom-strings-attached/) - Where else can you catch the wooden puppet version of Don Quixote?
- [Ubud Writers Festival: freedom, strings attachedMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-writers-festival-freedom-strings-attachedmuhammad-cohen/) - The 2024 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali runs October 23-27. “After our 20th anniversary, we are excited to build on last year’s success by offering an even more eclectic program of events and joy, alongside bold visions for the future,” festival founder and director Janet DeNeefe says. This 21st edition of the festival features my former CNN colleague Maria Ressa providing perspectives on journalism and press freedom in these troubling times of disinformation and rising authoritarianism. Also addressing the topic Paul Caruana Galizia, son of assassinated Maltese investigative reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia, and Drew Ambrose, whose current Al Jazeera series Flattening the Curve examines the uneven global response to Covid-19 and its implications moving forward. Indonesian national icon for press freedom as well as the arts and letters Goenawan Mohamad will premiere his adaptation of Don Quixote for wayang golek, traditional wooden puppets. Other host country literary stars coming to Ubud this year include Cigarette Girl (Gadis Kretek) author Ratih Kumala, plus Dee Lestari, Ayu Utami and Agustinus Wibowo, each to talk about their latest works. There’s also a tribute to Pramoedya Ananta Toer, imprisoned under Suharto’s New Order regime, featuring the novelist’s 87 year old brother Soesilo Toer. Goenawan Mohamad “We take pride in shining a spotlight on this vast yet often overlooked nation’s writers, artists, thinkers, and performers, with the hope that the world will one day recognize their talent, just as we do,” DeNeefe says. The festival in picturesque Ubud will also host best selling UK historians William Dalrymple, Ben Bland and Sathnam Sanghera, celebrated Indian novelist Amitav Ghost, French-Chinese American writer Aube Rey Lescure and dozens of others, appearing in a relaxed, intimate setting. Plus there’s music, film, poetry and, yes, puppetry at one of the world’s top literary events, well worth a trip from anywhere. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Social casinos evade Asian online gaming bans](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/social-casinos-evade-asian-online-gaming-bans/) - But it takes more than online slot machines to succeed.
- [Social casinos evade Asian online gaming bansMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/social-casinos-evade-asian-online-gaming-bansmuhammad-cohen/) - Online free to play or social casinos present an opportunity in Asia, where legal online gaming remains highly restricted in most jurisdictions. But for now, social casinos’ growth lags that of role play, action and casual games, so smart operators offer players a wider variety of options. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [No Wynn situation for Thailand casino regulators?](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/no-wynn-situation-for-thailand-casino-regulators/) - Regulations governing Thai gaming legalization may rule out US, Singapore licensees
- [No Wynn situation for Thailand casino regulators?Muhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/no-wynn-situation-for-thailand-casino-regulatorsmuhammad-cohen/) - Thailand’s fast track casino legalization may rule out US operators such as Wynn Resorts, MGM Resorts International, and Singapore licensees Las Vegas Sands and Genting to accommodate the kingdom’s present, often illegal gaming interests. That conundrum ranks among the top issues facing Prime Minister Srettha Thavsin’s government as it moves to create multibillion dollar “entertainment complexes” featuring casinos in Thailand within two years. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [NagaCorp’s success story rolls snake eyes](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/nagacorps-success-story-rolls-snake-eyes/) - Phnom Penh’s monopoly casino faces a pair of unprecedented challenges.
- [NagaCorp’s success story rolls snake eyesMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/nagacorps-success-story-rolls-snake-eyesmuhammad-cohen/) - With NagaCorp’s Chinese customer base waylaid and its founder deceased, the Hong Kong listed Phnom Penh casino monopoly faces unprecedented challenges. Naga needs more of the nimble, out of the box thinking that built its 25 year run of success. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Vietnam sets beachfront casino resort standard](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/vietnam-sets-beachfront-casino-resort-standard/) - Vietnam boasts a trio of top flight resorts with casinos among a host of attractions.
- [Vietnam sets beachfront casino resort standardMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/vietnam-sets-beachfront-casino-resort-standardmuhammad-cohen/) - Hoiana is one of Vietnam’s trio of beachfront casino resorts. (Company provided photo) Best in class beachfront casino resorts may lift Vietnam into the first tier of Asian gaming destinations. The Grand – Ho Tram outside Ho Chi Minh City, Hoiana near UNESCO World Heritage site Hoi An and Corona on the island of Phu Quoc set regional benchmarks gaming (and non-gaming) by the sea. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Resorts World Genting plays it chillMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/resorts-world-genting-plays-it-chillmuhammad-cohen/) - In the cool mountain air of a 130 million year old rainforest, Resorts World Genting is Asia’s largest and most unique integrated resort. Just 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur, RW Genting feels worlds away. Malaysia’s only legal casino has to be different because the majority of the national population are barred from gambling. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Casinos bet big on retailMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/casinos-bet-big-on-retailmuhammad-cohen/) - The Shoppes at Solaire, Entertainment City, Manila. (Photo provided by Bloomberry Resorts.) Shopping malls have become an integral part of integrated resorts. Retail makes many contributions to casino resorts, but its impact on the bottom line may surprise you. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Southeast Asia drives regional gaming growthMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/southeast-asia-drives-regional-gaming-growthmuhammad-cohen/) - A visit to Malaysia’s Resorts World Genting, Asia’s first integrated resort, after early trips to Singapore and the Philippines, adds to evidence that Southeast Asia is the new engine of regional gaming growth. The ASEAN group combines new resorts, an increasingly wealth population and attractive resorts, with more on the way. Watch this space for more coverage of this intriguing destination. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Unhappy FU Day from US 2024 presidential raceMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/unhappy-fu-day-from-us-2024-presidential-racemuhammad-cohen/) - Greetings and salutations for Felix Unger Day. May your linguine never be garbage. This year’s FU Day falls amid the US 2024 presidential race, featuring a codependent odd couple of white men pushing 80 from either end as the major party front runners. Polls show a majority of the country would rather have different nominees on each side; instead, the erstwhile world’s greatest democracy is giving the electorate a big, fat FU. As The Odd Couple hypnotist episode quotes Shakespeare, “The fault lies not within our stars but within our selves.” Or as Felix Unger himself said, “Let it be on your head.” Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Ubud 2023: Goenawan Mohamad’s reformasiMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-2023-goenawan-mohamads-reformasimuhammad-cohen/) - Goenawan Mohamad in conversation with Pamela Allen at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival. (Photo credit: Reskiana) “Like crime, poetry doesn’t pay.” – Indonesian man of arts and letters and press freedom icon Goenawan Mohamad explaining why he turned to journalism from poetry at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Ubud 2023: Indonesia finds truth in fictionMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-2023-indonesia-finds-truth-in-fictionmuhammad-cohen/) - In a conversation with author Leila Chudori at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali, Debra Yatim pointed out that Indonesia’s deadly political upheaval that began in 1965, leaving hundreds of thousands dead, gets a couple of paragraphs in national history textbooks but is the subject of more than 20 works of fiction. Those include Chudori’s Home, chronicling Indonesian political exiles and their families left behind. My favorite is Laksmi Pamuntjak’s The Question of Red, a retelling of a piece of the pan Asian Ramayana tale in The Year of Living Dangerously and its unresolved aftermath. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, former Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Thailand casino plans may go up in smokeMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/thailand-casino-plans-may-go-up-in-smokemuhammad-cohen/) - Momentum has been building toward casino legalization in Thailand within three years. But how Thailand’s new government reforms cannabis policy could provide hints as to how the dice will roll on casinos. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Ubud Writers Festival marks 20th anniversaryMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-writers-festival-marks-20th-anniversarymuhammad-cohen/) - This year’s Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali runs October 18-22. This five day twentieth anniversary edition features a top drawer lineup of Indonesian and global talent. “Over the years, our festival has cemented its reputation as a world-class event that continually presents award winning, internationally recognized authors, thinkers, and activists, along with exciting new voices from the latest literary zeitgeist to intellectual commentary and current affairs,” festival founder and director Janet de Neefe says. “This year is incredibly special as it’s our twentieth anniversary, and our 2023 program will be no less exceptional.” International literary luminaries coming to Ubud include groundbreaking Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, additional Booker awardees Geetanjali Shree and Shehan Karunatilaka, and Pulitzer Prize winning historical novelist Geraldine Brooks. Indonesian superstars include best selling novelists Eka Kurniawan and Dee Lestari, Laut Bercerita (The Sea Speaks His Name) author Leila S Chudori and legendary journalist and man of arts and letters Goenawan Mohamad. The program also features climate change and sustainability experts and activists working on five continents. Back in its traditional format, the Ubud Festival remains a great opportunity to see and hear some of the world’s top writers and other creative artists up close and personal in one of the world’s most inviting destinations. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Macau marches to post-pandemic tuneMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-marches-to-post-pandemic-tunemuhammad-cohen/) - Grand Lisboa Palace evokes SJM founder Stanley Ho’s vision of Macau as Asia’s Monte Carlo. (Photo: Muhammad Cohen) Once again the world’s casino revenue leader, Macau has entered a brave new world of new properties, new policies, no large scale junkets operations and a focus on non-gaming spending. Meanwhile June gross gaming revenue of US$1.9 billion makes the first half tally 53.6% of 2019, up from 52% through May, but still well short of the post-pandemic boom in the US, Philippines and Singapore. Macau is moving in the right direction, but still has a long way to go. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Closed casino clouds Saipan past, present, futureMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/closed-casino-clouds-saipan-past-present-futuremuhammad-cohen/) - Beachfront casino hotel Imperial Pacific Palace remains unfinished in Saipan’s main tourist hub. (Company provided photo) Imperial Pacific International’s casino in Saipan remains one of the most outrageous tales in Asia-Pacific gaming annals. Pieces of its unfinished beachfront casino hotel, closed since March 2020, are being auctioned off, but IPI’s failure still casts a giant shadow across the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory in the western Pacific. During its five-plus years of operation, mostly as a temporary casino in a shopping mall, Imperial Pacific reported larger VIP gambling volumes than top Macau casinos on a fraction of the tables. Now, IPI only leads the casino world in uncollected debt. According to figures from the UNLV Center for Gaming Research, over the past four years, the largest casinos on the Vegas Strip averaged $2.35 million in bad debt. IPI’s annual uncollected player debt ran more than 100 times higher. Bad debt on the Strip averages 1% of gross gaming revenue; for IPI, it accounts for more than 70% of reported GGR. IPI’s crystal dragons, measuring 60 meter and 40 tons, may be auctioned to pay its creditors. (Company provided photo) There’s speculation as to whether IPI produced those figures as part of a scheme for money laundering, share price manipulation – IPI is listed on the Hong Kong stock market, though trading has been suspended since April last year – a ploy to sell casino sublicenses for its purported US$7 billion Saipan Strip development, or just due to rank incompetence. At its most basic, IPI demonstrates how difficult it is to create a viable casino in a jurisdiction of fewer than 50,000 inhabitants four hours from the nearest major source markets. Yet, many in CNMI, especially among the political class that licensed IPI in defiance of public opinion and local law, want to bet on casino gambling in Saipan again. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Don’t bet on casinos benefiting New York CityMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/dont-bet-on-casinos-benefiting-new-york-citymuhammad-cohen/) - Proposed New York City casino sites include Times Square in a renovated office building. I visited Singapore last week for the G2E Asia gaming conference and trade show, held at Marina Bay Sands. MBS remains the most impressive and profitable casino resort on earth, symbol of a Singapore that’s grown past chewing gum bans. Crosstown rival Resorts World Sentosa draws domestic and international visitors with Universal Studios and other attractions. Casino licenses on offer for New York City and vicinity should inspire similarly sensational integrated resorts. But the licenses will likely produce no-frills cash boxes, bringing the city more of what it doesn’t need. Without a major policy rethink, the city will be better off without them. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Philippine casino regulator aims to boost marketMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/philippine-casino-regulator-aims-to-boost-marketmuhammad-cohen/) - Entertainment City market leader Solaire celebrated its 10th anniversary in March. (Company provided image) Pagcor chairman Alejandro Tengco, the regulator in Asia’s most dynamic gaming market, wants to be a partner with the industry he oversees. Pagcor – the government owned Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation – and its licensees generated nearly US$4 billion in gaming revenue last year. The Philippines could overtake Singapore as Asia’s second largest gaming market behind Macau with domestic economic growth and revived travel across Asia. Solaire shopping arcade.(Company provided image) Visitor prospects look rosy with a green light for Chinese travel to the Philippines, despite its ongoing offshore gaming licensing, a sector Tengco proposes expanding. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Japan keeps casino world waitingMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-keeps-casino-world-waitingmuhammad-cohen/) - Local election that began Sunday mark the latest milestone that could trigger a decision on Japan’s casino license applications. The current legalization push has gone on for a decade, with two applications from Osaka and Nagasaki submitted last April for three available licenses. So far, there’s been no indication of when the national government evaluation process will finish. Sources in Japan expect decisions will be announced in months, if not weeks, with the strong possibility of a new round of bidding for unawarded license(s) to follow the decision. But the smart money likely would have said the same thing a year ago. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Gaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Philippines faces POGO sticking pointMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/philippines-faces-pogo-sticking-pointmuhammad-cohen/) - No sunset in sight for Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) targeting mainland China. (Photo by Muhammad Cohen) In 2019, 1.7 million Chinese tourists came to the Philippines, spending an estimated US$2.3 billion dollars. China Outbound Tourism Research Institute CEO Wolfgang Arlt estimates nearly 1.2 million Chinese travelers will visit the archipelago this year, heavily back loaded toward the second half. That’s about two-thirds of the 2019 total of 1.74 million. Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs) continue targeting mainland China, and it may cost the island nation couple pay a steep price. China claims it has a secret travel blacklist for countries that encourage its citizens to gamble, and a Philippine senator says his country is on the list. If that’s true, the cost of POGOs would be exorbitant. On spending, Arlt says, “Nobody has a reliable way for a forecast.” China’s rich saw a 10% wealth decline during the pandemic, but pent up demand could overcome that loss, at least temporarily. Conservatively, Chinese travelers would spend US$1.3 billion in the Philippines this year, unless the blacklist stops them from visiting. Weigh that against the estimated US$80 million in government revenue and plus reported illegal activities that POGOs generate. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at largefor Clarion’s iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Renminbi in Macau casinos might mollify BeijingMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/renminbi-in-macau-casinos-might-mollify-beijingmuhammad-cohen/) - The end of China’s Zero Covid policy and new concessions for Macau’s incumbents don’t signal the end of its problems. The once and future top global casino destination faces a Beijing regime that’s skeptical, if not downright hostile, toward gambling. Switching Macau betting to mainland China’s currency, the renminbi, might help assuage concerns over funds illegally leaving the mainland via casinos. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Macau misplays casino dealsMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-misplays-casino-dealsmuhammad-cohen/) - Even in extremely challenging times, Macau got seven bidders for its six casino concessions. Unfortunately, authorities didn’t use their leverage wisely to clean up a glaring conflict of interest and remove an underpeforming licensee. Promised casino operator non-gaming investment will be most effective if targeted toward comprehensive efforts among all stakeholders to boost Macau’s destination appeal. But absent a government mandate, don’t bet on that happening. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for iGaming Business, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Happy FU Day to New York City and casinosMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/happy-fu-day-to-new-york-city-and-casinosmuhammad-cohen/) - Warmest regards for Felix Unger Day, this year celebrating New York City, where FU Day and I were born. New York has begun the process of issuing up to three casino licenses for New York City and the downstate area. Resorts World Catskills hasn’t done much to brighten the Borscht Belt. (Photo credit: Muhammad Cohen) New York State has a dismal track record on casinos, largely compiled under ousted governor Andrew Cuomo. Issuing three downstate licenses virtually ensures any new NYC casinos won’t be worthy of the greatest city on earth. And, as Oscar Madison’s secretary Myrna Turner might have told Mistuh Em, “New York City without a casino is like a fish without a bicycle.” Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for ICE365, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [EuroVegas: Mediterranean Strip tease or investment alternative to sluggish Asia?Muhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/eurovegas-mediterranean-strip-tease-or-investment-alternative-to-sluggish-asiamuhammad-cohen/) - Batumi, the Vegas of the Black Sea in Georgia, has 11 casinos, an attractive seaside plaza and big ambitions. (Photo credit: Muhammad Cohen) As Asian gaming remains muted with its post-Covid prospects murky, the time seems ripe for integrated resorts in Europe. Hard Rock International, Melco Resorts and Cordish are developing IRs a decade after Sheldon Adelson proposed creating EuroVegas in Spain with multiple resorts, casinos, golf courses and thousands of hotel rooms. VIP room in Casino International at the Batumi Hilton. (Photo provided by Casino International) Europe already has hundreds of casinos, most catering to local markets, along with a handful of gaming destinations with wider reach. Batumi, Georgia’s Black Sea Vegas, drawing customers from neighboring Turkey and the Middle East, has attractive casinos in international branded hotels, dramatic surroundings, great food and wine, plus expansion ambitions. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for ICE365, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Marina Bay Sands drives LVS performanceMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/marina-bay-sands-drives-lvs-performancemuhammad-cohen/) - The world’s most admired casino resort, seen from Gardens by the Bay. (Credit: Marina Bay Sands) As Macau continues to struggle under the zero-Covid regime, Singapore icon Marina Bay Sands keeps driving Las Vegas Sands’ financial performance. In an exclusive interview, MBS chief operating officer Paul Town explains how the common interests and shared purpose of the resort and its Singapore host community key the integrated resort’s lasting success. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for ICE365, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [#UWRF22: Osman Yousefzada’s ‘tug of war’Muhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/uwrf22-osman-yousefzadas-tug-of-warmuhammad-cohen/) - Osman Yousefzada speaking at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali. (Photo courtesy UWRF) “Reformed fashion designer” Osman Yousefzada writes about growing up in a Pakistani-Afghan family in Birmingham, England, in The Go-Between. “It’s not the typical immigrant story of having a business degree and becoming a taxi driver,” he explained at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali. “My story is completely different.” Yousefzada’s parents weren’t literate in any language and lived according to ancestral ultra conservative Muslim traditions. His sisters were taken out of school at age 10, and his mother hardly ever left the house, where she ran a small dressmaking business, grounding Yousefzada’s career in fashion. As he approached puberty, he was increasingly shut off from women in their community beyond his immediate family, “removing the color from my life.” His family’s community didn’t like his book: “They didn’t want to show themselves.” Margaret Thatcher’s bare knuckle capitalism attacked Birmingham’s unionized industrial base and, with it, Yousefzada’s father’s livelihood. “What Thatcherism took away, the petrodollar and religiosity replaced,” Yousefzada says. “When my father came to the UK in the 1970s, he looked suave, a sort of Cary Grant. Then he changed his appearance.” With manufacturing virtually extinct in the UK, fashion production now resides in places like Bangladesh. Yousefzada traveled there and recorded garment workers’ views of customers buying the clothing they produce. “They believed their customers ate only fruit, and wore clothes two or three times then threw them away. Rather than the immigrant mythology that anybody can become president, a worker told Yousefzada, “I can only dream as much as I can afford.” Now more focused on visual and performance art, Yousefzada approached fashion as an exercise in anthropology “about costume and space.” Making space for one’s self is a recurring theme with Yousefzada. “There’s a tug of war with myself: what do I want to call myself. I’ve settled as artist and writer.” Based on his Ubud talk and The Go-Between, that seems to be a good fit. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large at ICE365, a contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Ubud Writers Festival back live to lift BaliMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-writers-festival-back-live-to-lift-balimuhammad-cohen/) - Born in the wake of the 2002 Bali bombings, the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival return live to foster cultural exchange and boost recovery of tourism on the Indonesian island after more than two years of Covid crimped international travel. With more than 200 speakers from 19 countries, this 19th edition of the festival runs October 27-30 in Bali. This year’s theme is the Javanese concept Memayu Hayuning Bawana, Uniting Humanity. “I am proud to announce that the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival returns with an exciting on-the-ground program,” festival founder and director Janet DeNeefe announced at a press conference. “We will explore the power of storytelling and the role of the written word to uphold humanity’s values and freedoms. With the world becoming more fractured, our lives more disturbed, we will ask: how can we unite the many strands of different cultures and perspectives to create, deeper understanding, mutual respect, and equality?” Balinese novelist and poet Putu Oka Sukanto, whose work examines Indonesia’s authoritarian past, has received the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. “This award strengthens my determination to write and work for those that are left out and those that are marginalized by power,” Sukanto said in thanking the festival for the award. Puteri Indonesia (Miss Universe Indonesia) 2022 Laksmi DeNeefe Suardana will bring her advocacy for literacy to the program. Daughter of the festival founder, Suardana said, “I’ve been with the festival since the beginning, and it has had a huge impact on me. I want to provide equal opportunities for Indonesian children.” The festival is an annual highlight of the Bali calendar. As a fan and multiyear participant, I congratulate DeNeefe and her team for weathering Covid, and hope the festival continues to thrive as a forum for ideas and dialogue. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large at ICE365, a contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Wynn-Adelson Vegas rivalry ended in MacauMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/wynn-adelson-vegas-rivalry-ended-in-macaumuhammad-cohen/) - Las Vegas Sands founder Sheldon Adelson and wife Dr Miriam Adelson (center) at the April 2012 opening of Sands Cotai Central in Macau, with then Macau Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai-on (left) and then Las Vegas Sands president and chief operating officer Michael Leven. Las Vegas visionaries Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn took separate routes to revolutionizing the Strip while ragging on each other. When their paths brought them to Macau, the Adelson -Wynn rivalry was expected to continue. Instead it fizzled, amid their radically different approaches to the great gaming opportunity of their lifetimes. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large at ICE365, a contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Genting bankruptcy charts new cruise courseMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/genting-bankruptcy-charts-new-cruise-coursemuhammad-cohen/) - Same ship, different brand. (Photo provided by Resorts World Cruises) Covid coupled with massive ill-timed bets on the Asian cruise market led to bankruptcy for Genting Hong Kong, the company that began as Star Cruises. But for Genting chairman Lim Kok Thay and family that control the global gaming and leisure group, bankruptcy seems little more than a course correction. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large at ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [The Lazarus Heist details North Korea cybercrimeMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/the-lazarus-heist-details-north-korea-cybercrimemuhammad-cohen/) - I’m reading The Lazarus Heist, adapted from last year’s BBC World Service podcast of the same name about North Korea’s cybercrime wave that includes my comments on its casino angles. Author Geoff White puts Pyongyang’s high tech trespass in the context of the ruling Kim dynasty and the post-Cold War world. It’s a fascinating true crime read laced with geopolitical insight. Note: The book repeats the podcast’s error of identifying me a Macau resident. Although I’ve been visiting Macau for decades and have on occasion spent weeks there on assignment, I have never been a Macau resident and never identified myself as one. White is working on a correction for future iterations of the book, and I’m grateful for that. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large at ICE365, a contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Angela Leong bets on Macau, Stanley HoMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/angela-leong-bets-on-macau-stanley-homuhammad-cohen/) - Lisboeta in Cotai recreates highlights of casino mogul Stanley Ho’s salad days in1960s Macau. (Image provided by Lisboeta) People go to Macau to see replicas of Venice, Paris and London. With Lisboeta, Angela Leong is betting tourists will come to see Macau, more specifically, the Macau of her late husband and casino kingpin Stanley Ho. The resort stakes her family’s claim as proud heirs to Ho’s gaming legacy. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large at ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Japan curbs casino enthusiasmMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-curbs-casino-enthusiasmmuhammad-cohen/) - Hokkaido is among leading Japan tourist destinations that chose not to seek a casino resort. (Photo credit: Japan National Tourism Organization) Prime Minister Shinzo Abe proposed casino legalization for Japan in 2013, prompting unprecedented excitement among gaming companies across the globe. After a nearly a decade of delays, diffidence and grassroots dissent, Japan has two bids for three licenses, with leading casino companies and top tourist destinations, including Tokyo and Hokkaido island, choosing to pass. Across the board efforts to curb Japan casino enthusiasm have been breathtaking. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large at ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Casino intellectual property questions loomMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/casino-intellectual-property-questions-loommuhammad-cohen/) - Stadium Swim is a signature attraction at Circa Resort in downtown Las Vegas. Casino resorts spend billions to develop unique customer experiences. But in most cases gaming companies don’t protect intellectual property underlying those signature attractions. Experts say that’s not as crazy as it sounds, even as casino resorts increasingly rely on marketing those customer experiences. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a correspondent for ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance and cheap lingerie. See his bio, archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com, follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Fading Macau icon Suncity leaves overseas legacyMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/fading-macau-icon-suncity-leaves-overseas-legacymuhammad-cohen/) - The listed arm of Suncity owns 34% of central Vietnam beachfront resort Hoiana. (Photo provided by Hoiana) Once dominant in Macau’s junket business, Suncity has fallen on hard times. Founder Alvin Chau’s late November arrest toppled its junket business and nearly that entire segment of the Macau gaming economy. Last week, the non-junket listed arm of Suncity reported a US$83 million loss in 2021, casting “significant doubt on the group’s ability to continue as a going concern.” Amid the devastation, Vietnam beachfront casino resort Hoiana should prove Suncity’s lasting positive legacy. The listed side of Suncity owns 34% of Hoiana, a US$4 billion project soft opened in June 2020, 15 minutes drive from Hoi An, a UNESCO World Heritage site. As travel restrictions ease across Asia, Hoiana appears poised for success, whatever happens with Suncity. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a correspondent for ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times, and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Chicago gambles on transformative casinoMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/chicago-gambles-on-transformative-casinomuhammad-cohen/) - Rush Street Gaming’s Rivers 78, in a new riverside neighborhood, is among three finalists for a Chicago casino license. Hard Rock and Bally’s have proposal similarly ambitious projects. (Graphic provided by Rush Street Gaming) The Windy City isn’t blowing its casino opportunity. The long running saga took another turn when Chicago chose three finalists for its casino license. The city eliminated two proposals that built on the success of its McCormick Place convention center. Instead, Chicago opted for projects that would introduce new landmarks to the urban landscape. I’ve been urging a similar approach for New York’s downstate casino opportunity, encouraging an iconic development that makes New York City a more attractive destination for residents and visitors and maximizes new investment and employment. Adding live table games to New York’s two current downstate electronic gaming facilities at race tracks would likely dampen enthusiasm for the region’s third license and lengthen the odds of creating a casino worthy of the largest city in the US. When it comes to casino development, downstate New York has a better hand than Chicago. But winning often depends on how you play your cards. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a columnist for ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes, columnist/correspondent for Asia Times, and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [China closes high roller tap for MacauMuhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/china-closes-high-roller-tap-for-macaumuhammad-cohen/) - With high rollers increasingly scarce, Las Vegas Sands subsidiary Sands China is betting that fake London, alongside fake Venice and Paris, will bring in crowds . (Photo provided by Sands China) For years, a key question overhanging Macau has been how long will China tolerate hundreds of billions of dollars annually exiting the mainland via Macau casino VIP rooms. “No longer,” mainland authorities broadcast with the arrest of Suncity chairman Alvin Chau, precipitating the rapid collapse of Macau’s junket business. Macau may still be the best bet in Asian gaming, but it’s now a whole new ballgame. No more debating about whether mainland China’s efforts to curtail overseas gambling and money transfers apply to Macau. Mainland high rollers can still gamble millions in Macau. Without junkets, though, they’ll have to find their own means to skirt China’s currency controls. And they’ll know exactly how Beijing feels about their activities. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a columnist for ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes, columnist/correspondent for Asia Times, and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, Twitter @MuhammadCohen and LinkedIn.
- [Mohegan Gaming takes the long view<br>Muhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/mohegan-gaming-takes-the-long-viewmuhammad-cohen/) - From its Connecticut base, Mohegan Gaming has expanded to Las Vegas and Korea. (Photo credit: Mohegan Gaming & Entertainment) In its first quarter century, Native American casino operator Mohegan Gaming and Entertainment has expanded from its Connecticut base to Las Vegas and Asia. In an exclusive interview, MGE president and CEO Ray Pineault, the second Tribe member to lead its gaming arm, talks about those milestones and the Mohegan vision that looks 13 generations ahead. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a columnist for ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes,columnist/correspondent for Asia Times, and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.
- [New York City casino economics: 1>3<br>Muhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/new-york-city-casino-economics-13muhammad-cohen/) - A single New York City casino license may produce a gaming changing entertainment destination like Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands. (Photo credit: Marina Bay Sands) A multibillion dollar casino complex in New York City would give the region a much needed economic jolt in the wake of Covid. But if New York State issues the three casino licenses permitted by law for the downstate metro area, New York City won’t get a showplace integrated resort worthy of the leading US market. A single license is New York’s best bet for tourism, business and jobs. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a columnist for ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes, columnist/correspondent for Asia Times, and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.
- [Professors that shaped my life died in 2021<br>Muhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/professors-that-shaped-my-life-died-in-2021muhammad-cohen/) - In this year brimming with loss, the two most consequential teachers of my college years passed away. Historian Donald Kagan and urban planner Alexander Garvin were towering figures in their chosen fields and fixtures at Yale for decades. Garvin and his bowties took the train up from his day jobs in New York City government under five mayors to teach Study of the City on Tuesday nights. In the wake of Watergate and amid mounting evidence of New York’s municipal dysfunction, Garvin’s class demonstrated a useful role for the public sector. I earned my first A in that class, writing a term paper comparing two NYU housing blocks south of Washington Square Park. Later I lived in that neighborhood, and then in Washington’s Capitol Park South, the first US urban renewal area, a fact I learned in Garvin’s class. Thanks to Garvin, I also began a career in government. I don’t remember the circumstances but I must have reached out to him, and in June 1978, he gave me my first real job, surveying damage from New York’s summer of ‘77 blackout along Broadway in Bushwick, Brooklyn. As I learned in the Department of City Planning report that incorporated that fieldwork, every borough in New York has a street named Broadway that starts at the its waterfront. Trying make government work for the people took me across the border into Queens, working with retailers on Myrtle Avenue in Ridgewood, to the municipal markets that Fiorello LaGuardia launched to get pushcarts off city streets, to Queens Borough Hall, to Washington and to Tanzania as a US diplomat telling America’s story to the world. I needed a job back in 1978 thanks in part to Donald Kagan. As a freshman, I got steered to Kagan’s introduction to ancient Greek history, a subject I knew nothing about. At the first lecture, in an auditorium with hundreds of students, it was a clear within minutes that I was in the presence of a truly gifted scholar and teacher. Kagan’s Origins of War course, about what ignited the Peleponnesian War, Second Punic War, World War I and World War II, and what kept the Cuban missile crisis from become a war, made history alive, contemporary and relevant. Kagan inspired me to attempt multiple majors including classic civilization. I even went to summer school to try to learn ancient Greek. When my triple major dream crumbled at the end of my junior year, I approached Kagan with a different idea. I asked for his approval to complete my senior paper over the summer and graduate early. Kagan, who thought more of my newspaper work than my scholarship, agreed to oversee my paper and arrange the administrative details, saving my family about $6,000 in tuition. Like me, Kagan was a working class kid from New York who drank the Yale Kool-Aid. Kagan shuddered at the prospect of something ruining such a uniquely blessed place, the way the Athenians had destroyed their own. He didn’t want to see that happen to Yale, and he didn’t want to see it happen to America. His attitudes could be a bit ancient. He left Cornell because he believed it knuckled under to student protest demands for a Black Studies curriculum. He opposed the option to allow undergraduates to take up to four to their required 36 courses as Pass/Fail, rather than for a grade, to stop the “unmanning of Yale students.” His turn as dean went sideways over a proposed new Western Civilization curriculum that was more well endowed than received. Conservative to his core, Kagan believed in preserving the essential values of society and passing them down the generations. Garvin believed tearing something down could lead to building something better. Their teachings and their kindness have helped shape my life. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a columnist for ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes and Inside Asian Gaming, columnist/correspondent for Asia Times, and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.
- [Macau junket boss arrest sends wide shock waves<br>Muhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-junket-boss-arrest-sends-wide-shock-wavesmuhammad-cohen/) - Suncity leader Alvin Chau’s arrest escalates China’s crackdown on its citizens gambling and illegal money transfers. (Photo provided by Suncity Group.) The arrest of Suncity chief Alvin Chau and others from the leading Macau junket promoter dramatically escalates China’s efforts to limit its citizens’ gambling activities and illegal overseas money transfers. Suncity’s Hong Kong listed arm, which excludes its junket business but holds stakes in casino properties Hoiana in Vietnam and Tigre di Crystal in Russia plus a casino hotel under development in Manila’s Entertainment City, says Chau plans to resign as its chairman and CEO. My ICE365 article on Genting’s licensing in Nevada while discounting its Philippines business highlights how regulators around the world have perfected the art of diminishing, if not disregarding, inconvenient facts. In Macau, at least for now, the authorities have lost their blinders when it comes to Suncity. This story has barely begun to unfold. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a columnist for ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes, columnist/correspondent for Asia Times, and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.
- [Happy FU Day as truth, lies converge<br>Muhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/happy-fu-day-as-truth-lies-convergemuhammad-cohen/) - Amid pandemics of Covid-19 and disinformation, truth and fiction are this year’s odd couple. This year, Felix Unger Day arrives as we enter approach a third calendar year with the Covid-19 pandemic. So much that was once commonplace and taken for granted has become a major effort if not a distant dream. It’s a situation that seems too strange to be real. Combining this reality that’s stranger than fiction with the epidemic of falsehoods presented as facts makes truth and fiction an apt odd couple for 2021. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a columnist for ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes,columnist/correspondent for Asia Times, and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.
- [Global casino leaders can still rediscover Japan<br>Muhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/global-casino-leaders-can-still-rediscover-japanmuhammad-cohen/) - Japanese authorities have made creating integrated resorts a mountainous task. Photo credit: JNTO Hopes of creating the next big thing in Asian gaming skyrocketed as Japan began moving toward casino legalization in 2013. That enthusiasm has dissipated over these past eight years for a variety of reasons, and the smart money now bets building integrated resorts in Japan for billions of dollars won’t pay off. I’ve been part of the negative wave that’s swept the Japan casino contest, due to culminate in the national government licensing up to three IRs next year. I’ve suggested that Japan stop the IR process to rewrite the rules and that authorities only award one IR license among the three current contenders, hoping for more attractive candidates to emerge later. Then in late September, Caesars Entertainment, the largest US casino operator, rejoined the Japan IR race as the proposed casino operator for Wakayama prefecture’s IR bid. That’s the best news for Japan’s IR supporters in years. Caesars created the themed IR concept with Caesars Palace 55 years ago, and Harrah’s, which bought Caesars in 2004 before Eldorado Resorts bought the combined company last year, invented the modern casino customer rewards program. Caesars’ return to Japan – it dropped out the bidding at the time of the Eldorado purchase – is a reminder that Japan remains the world’s third largest economy, and it boasted rapidly growing international visitor arrivals pre-Covid. It’s also a reminder that defying conventional wisdom about Macau remade the global casino business two decades ago. Japan could have similar impact, despite what the smart money says. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a columnist for ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes, a columnist/correspondent for Asia Times, and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.
- [Party over for Macau nightspot Club Cubic<br>Muhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/party-over-for-macau-nightspot-club-cubicmuhammad-cohen/) - Club Cubic at City of Dreams was a place to go bananas in Macau. Photo by Funky Bambi Lu Sad to report that Macau’s Club Cubic closed permanently this month. Debuted downtown then relocated to Melco’s City of Dreams in Cotai nearly a decade ago, Club Cubic provided top shelf nightlife that remains scarce in Macau despite seemingly favorable conditions. My account of Korean pop star Psy playing Cubic in 2012 recalls how the club and the town could step up for the right show. The article also highlights that Macau faced non-gaming entertainment challenges back then; Club Cubic’s closing underscores the lack of progress since. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a columnist for ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes and Inside Asian Gaming, columnist/correspondent for Asia Times, and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.
- [Macau casinos remain best bet in Asia<br>Muhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casinos-remain-best-bet-in-asiamuhammad-cohen/) - When Covid restrictions ease, Asian gaming destinations will feel the impact of Chinese government policies to curtail overseas gambling, with Macau likely to suffer least. Despite investor fears triggered by new gaming law proposals, Macau’s casino sector remains the best bet in Asian gaming. China’s policies to stop overseas gambling by its citizens are real, and their impact will unfold as Covid travel restrictions recede. Destinations will feel the effects differently based on a variety of factors, including bilateral relations with Beijing. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a columnist for ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes and Inside Asian Gaming, columnist/correspondent for Asia Times, and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.
- [Bali’s Ubud Writers Festival goes hybrid<br>Muhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/balis-ubud-writers-festival-goes-hybridmuhammad-cohen/) - Ubud Writers and Readers Festival founder and director Janet DeNeefe, shown here in 2019, says Covid has forced the festival to be “braver” and “think outside the box.” (Photo credit: Vifick Bolang) With travelers entering Indonesia still requiring quarantine, Bali’s Ubud Writers and Readers Festival launched in hybrid form Thursday. With Covid easing in Bali, some events, running through October 17, are taking place live on the island, with some in Perth due to the difficulties traveling to and from key festival market Australia, some prerecorded and all available online and on demand, making content available globally. Festival founder and director Janet DeNeefe says the hybrid format presents new challenges after last year’s completely online event, but it doesn’t change the mission. “We have a purpose,” DeNeefe says. “The writers and readers festival began after the first Bali bombings [of 2002]. It was an attempt to re-flower the community, to uplift the people, to boost the economy, to bring a bit of inspiration, create a platform for dialogue. “That was how we began. And now more than ever we have to continue because this is what people need right now, some sort of event you can see. With the semi lock-down, there’s not a lot of action on the streets here. So, our job is to create the best face to face event as we can, given the situation. So we’ve become a hybrid festival.” While it may be easier to get top writers to commit to a remote interview rather than spend hours traveling to appear in person, recruiting has become more difficult in some ways, DeNeefe says. “A good deal of the festival’s attraction is the sheer fact that it’s in Ubud, so you’re in this beautiful location with really warm, friendly, hospitable people, great food, great weather. We have so many wonderful aspects of Ubud that attract people, so suddenly when you’re online, you lose the very magic of the festival in a way.” The 2021 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival welcomes live audiences after going completely online last year. (Photo credit: Anggara Mahendra) A restaurant owner, chef and cookbook author before she began the literary festival – later adding a food festival – DeNeefe hopes to restore some magic by tapping into Bali’s innate creativity with an artisans market running during the festival’s two weekends. Many vendors are hospitality industry workers who’ve found new pursuits with Bali tourism largely halted for the past 18 months. “It’s all a learning experience. Some of the aspects that we have learned about the online festival, we will take into this festival. We’re slowly morphing into a modern era,” DeNeefe says. “Of course it has its challenges, but it’s made us think outside the box and be a little bit braver perhaps as we’re venturing into a whole new territory.” Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a columnist for ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes and Inside Asian Gaming, columnist/correspondent for Asia Times, and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.
- [Ex-Sands exec Weidner attacked in Japan role<br>Muhammad Cohen](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ex-sands-exec-weidner-attacked-in-japan-rolemuhammad-cohen/) - Wakayama Palace stands tall in the prefecture bidding for a Japan casino license. (Photo courtesy Wakayama Prefecture Govt) Former Las Vegas Sands president and COO William Weidner may be the most accomplished gaming executive still in the business. Weidner’s 14 years with LVS included building its Vegas Strip Venetian complex, gaining entry to Macau, developing Cotai as world’s most lucrative casino cluster, winning a license in Singapore and conceiving what’s become the world’s most admired integrated resort there. So Weidner provided instant credibility when he joined Canadian private equity investor Clairvest’s effort to win an integrated resort license in Wakayama Prefecture near Osaka. Perhaps, then, it shouldn’t be surprising that Weidner came under attack via anonymous documents recounting legal settlements of US government charges against Las Vegas Sands during his tenure. The documents may aim to weaken Wakayama’s IR bid, but it’s equally likely they stem from a long running dispute involving Weidner’s Global Gaming Asset Management firm and Philippine billionaire Enrique Razon’s Bloomberry Resorts, or a Taiwan’s American Asian Entertainment’s US$12 billion lawsuit against LVS over termination of their Macau partnership, in which Weidner was a leading actor but is not a party to the litigation. In any case, the attack is another ugly aspect of Japan’s casino legalization saga that has limited public support and gotten the cold shoulder from leading international casino companies and Japan’s largest cities and tourist destinations. Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a columnist for ICE 365, a contributor to Forbes and Inside Asian Gaming, columnist/correspondent for Asia Times, and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.
- [Mohegan Gaming takes the long view](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/mohegan-gaming-takes-the-long-view/) - Connecticut Tribe records firsts in Las Vegas, Korea.
- [New York City casino economics: 1>3](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/new-york-city-casino-economics-13/) - A single license is the best bet for a difference making investment in the largest US market.
- [Professors that shaped my life died in 2021](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/professors-that-shaped-my-life-died-in-2021/) - Donald Kagan, Alexander Garvin sent me in unexpected directions
- [Macau junket boss arrest sends wide shock waves](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-junket-boss-arrest-sends-wide-shock-waves/) - At least for now, Macau authorities have lost their blinders about Suncity.
- [Happy FU Day as truth, lies converge](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/happy-fu-day-as-truth-lies-converge/) - “On November 13th, Felix Unger was asked to leave his place of residence. That request came from his wife...”
- [Global casino leaders can still rediscover Japan](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/global-casino-leaders-can-still-rediscover-japan/) - Top companies in the gaming universe ignore opportunities in the world’s third largest economy at their peril
- [Party over for Macau nightspot Club Cubic](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/party-over-for-macau-nightspot-club-cubic/) - Cotai venue brought Macau entertainment that’s still in short supply
- [Macau casinos remain best bet in Asia](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casinos-remain-best-bet-in-asia/) - Casinos across Asia can no longer rely on gamblers from mainland China.
- [Bali’s Ubud Writers Festival goes hybrid](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/balis-ubud-writers-festival-goes-hybrid/) - Live and online events on two continents highlight top Asia literary festival in time of Covid
- [Ex-Sands exec Weidner attacked in Japan role](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ex-sands-exec-weidner-attacked-in-japan-role/) - Japan’s casino legalization process keeps getting uglier.
- [India failure threatens freedom globally](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/india-failure-threatens-freedom-globally/) - New book examines rot at the core of India’s democracy.
- [Measuring Macau’s loudest jingling](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/measuring-macaus-loudest-jingling/) - What matters in the world’s casino capital won’t show up in earnings reports
- [Las Vegas Sands, Genting avert Strip rematch](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/las-vegas-sands-genting-avert-strip-rematch/) - Singapore casino rivals were set to rumble on the Vegas Strip until Sheldon Adelson’s corporate heirs sold Venetian
- [Bank of Bangladesh money trail crosses Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/bank-of-bangladesh-money-trail-crosses-macau/) - BBC podcast traces attempted billion dollar online robbery from Hollywood to Pyongyang.
- [Melco hides Stanley Ho ties in plain sight](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/melco-hides-stanley-ho-ties-in-plain-sight/) - Melco’s culture of denial enabled its futile bid to acquire Crown that lost US$235 million
- [Time for time out in Japan casino saga](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/time-for-time-out-in-japan-casino-saga/) - After years of delays and false starts, Japan needs to stop again to get integrated resorts right.
- [Mobile betting on hold as New York pols squabble](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/mobile-betting-on-hold-as-new-york-pols-squabble/) - New York gambling laws are a bad bet for consumers, business and state coffers
- [Seeking freedom via wartime Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/seeking-freedom-via-wartime-macau/) - Paul French’s Strangers On The Praia tells the story of Jews in Macau fleeing a global pandemic of hate.
- [Seeking freedom via wartime Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/seeking-freedom-via-wartime-macau-2/) - Paul French’s Strangers On The Praia tells the story of Jews in Macau fleeing a global pandemic of hate.
- [Seeking freedom via wartime Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/seeking-freedom-via-wartime-macau-3/) - Paul French’s Strangers On The Praia tells the story of Jews in Macau fleeing a global pandemic of hate.
- [Raffles Extends Galaxy Macau Winning Streak](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/raffles-extends-galaxy-macau-winning-streak/) - An iconic brand in a spectacular package fits Francis Lui’s vision – and Beijing’s.
- [Billions made Adelsons political VIPs](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/billions-made-adelsons-political-vips/) - Casino billionaires used their money for influence in US, Israel
- [Larry King signs off](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/larry-king-signs-off/) - When I attended grad school at Stanford, Larry King became a big part of my life. Then we became colleagues, sort of. During the baseball season, one of Bay Areas teams was usually at home and the other was usually playing in a different time zone. With luck, from 4.30 in the afternoon to 11pm […]
- [Biden begins: Make America Great Again for all](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/biden-begins-make-america-great-again-for-all/) - Joe Biden’s inaugural address should appeal for unity, speaking to the decency that remains at America’s core even after four years of purposeful polarization and disinformation. Biden using four words from his predecessor may get more people to listen. Former US diplomat Muhammad Cohen a contributor to Forbes and Inside Asian Gaming columnist/correspondent for Asia […]
- [Biden begins: Make America Great Again for all](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/biden-begins-make-america-great-again-for-all-2/) - Joe Biden’s inaugural address should appeal for unity, speaking to the decency that remains at America’s core even after four years of purposeful polarization and disinformation. Biden using four words from his predecessor may get more people to listen. Former US diplomat Muhammad Cohen a contributor to Forbes and Inside Asian Gaming columnist/correspondent for Asia […]
- [Sheldon Adelson death may move LVS online](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/sheldon-adelson-death-may-move-lvs-online/) - The passing of Las Vegas Sands founder and megabillionaire Sheldon Adelson is expected to have little impact on the casino industry leader’s business. Sands President and COO Rob Goldstein will be the successor, at least for now. A 25 year LVS veteran who successfully ran the company during Adelson’s 2019 cancer treatment and took the […]
- [Sheldon Adelson death may move LVS online](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/sheldon-adelson-death-may-move-lvs-online/) - The passing of Las Vegas Sands founder and megabillionaire Sheldon Adelson is expected to have little impact on the casino industry leader’s business. Sands President and COO Rob Goldstein will be the successor, at least for now. A 25 year LVS veteran who successfully ran the company during Adelson’s 2019 cancer treatment and took the […]
- [Democrats must stand for something real](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/democrats-must-stand-for-something-real/) - Hillary Clinton campaign staff must be banned from politics and media, except Japanese game shows that humiliate contestants.
- [Democrats must stand for something real](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/democrats-must-stand-for-something-real-2/) - Hillary Clinton campaign staff must be banned from politics and media, except Japanese game shows that humiliate contestants.
- [Galaxy’s Francis Lui tops Asia Gaming 50](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/galaxys-francis-lui-tops-asia-gaming-50/) - Under Lui’s leadership, Galaxy has become Macau’s de facto local flag carrier in the casino business.
- [Felix Unger Day odd couple: China and Covid-19](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/felix-unger-day-odd-couple-china-and-covid-19/) - Happy Felix Unger Day, November 13. This year’s odd couple is China and Covid-19. The Middle Kingdom took the first hit from the virus and gave it to the rest of the world. While China has largely recovered – if you believe its numbers – its strategic and economic rivals continue to suffer from the […]
- [How Steven Cohen can make the Mets winners](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/how-steven-cohen-can-make-the-mets-winners/) - Being a multibillionaire doesn’t mean spending like crazy on free agents.
- [How Steven Cohen can make the Mets winners](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/how-steven-cohen-can-make-the-mets-winners-2/) - Being a multibillionaire doesn’t mean spending like crazy on free agents.
- [Bali Ubud festivals go virtual](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/bali-ubud-festivals-go-virtual/) - Some of the world’s most interesting people and ideas are available on your schedule.
- [Macau casinos face long road to recovery](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casinos-face-long-road-to-recovery/) - China’s Golden Week didn’t shine for the world’s casino capital,
- [Saipan casino struggles to survive](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/saipan-casino-struggles-to-survive/) - Hong Kong listed Imperial Pacific International says it can’t pay its casino license fee or legal judgments against it.
- [Saipan casino struggles to survive](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/saipan-casino-struggles-to-survive-2/) - Hong Kong listed Imperial Pacific International says it can’t pay its casino license fee or legal judgments against it.
- [Top Cambodia casino thinks bigger](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/top-cambodia-casino-thinks-bigger/) - NagaWorld’s US$3.5 billion expansion will vault it into the top rank of the world’s integrated resorts.
- [Top Cambodia casino thinks bigger](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/top-cambodia-casino-thinks-bigger-2/) - NagaWorld’s US$3.5 billion expansion will vault it into the top rank of the world’s integrated resorts.
- [Conventional convention highlights](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/conventional-convention-highlights/) - In absence of normal US party conventions this year, political scientist Ken Sherrill takes us backstage at the 1984 DNC.
- [Conventional convention highlights](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/conventional-convention-highlights-2/) - In absence of normal US party conventions this year, political scientist Ken Sherrill takes us backstage at the 1984 DNC.
- [Online gaming tempts virus stricken casinos](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/online-gaming-tempts-virus-stricken-casinos/) - As Covid-19 starves them for revenue, casinos and governments consider igaming.
- [Online gaming tempts virus stricken casinos](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/online-gaming-tempts-virus-stricken-casinos-2/) - As Covid-19 starves them for revenue, casinos and governments consider igaming.
- [Hong Kong handover marks broken promises](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/hong-kong-handover-marks-broken-promises/) - Then and now, Hong Kong leaders have trusted the wrong people.
- [Hong Kong handover marks broken promises](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/hong-kong-handover-marks-broken-promises-2/) - Then and now, Hong Kong leaders have trusted the wrong people.
- [Punish Beijing for Hong Kong’s lost freedom](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/punish-beijing-for-hong-kongs-lost-freedom/) - The US reaction to Beijing attacking Hong Kong’s autonomy is to penalize Hong Kong people and businesses.
- [Punish Beijing for Hong Kong’s lost freedom](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/punish-beijing-for-hong-kongs-lost-freedom-2/) - The US reaction to Beijing attacking Hong Kong’s autonomy is to penalize Hong Kong people and businesses.
- [Stanley Ho’s Macau streak ran five decades](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/stanley-hos-macau-streak-ran-five-decades/) - Casino mogul took a leading role in reshaping Macau over two centuries.
- [Stanley Ho’s Macau streak ran five decades](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/stanley-hos-macau-streak-ran-five-decades-2/) - Casino mogul took a leading role in reshaping Macau over two centuries.
- [Remembering Stanley Ho on ANC 24/7](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/remembering-stanley-ho-on-anc-247/) - Macau casino mogul lived a life that dreams are made of, left strong legacy.
- [Remembering Stanley Ho on ANC 24/7](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/remembering-stanley-ho-on-anc-247-2/) - Macau casino mogul lived a life that dreams are made of, left strong legacy.
- [Media, don’t help Trump distract from disaster](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/media-dont-help-trump-distract-from-disaster/) - CBS reporter did Trump a favor, making the story about her.
- [Media, don’t help Trump distract from disaster](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/media-dont-help-trump-distract-from-disaster-2/) - CBS reporter did Trump a favor, making the story about her.
- [Genting brings Asian know-how to Vegas](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/genting-brings-asian-know-how-to-vegas/) - Global casino operator creates Resorts World Las Vegas at (in)famous Strip location.
- [Corona Resort: right stuff, unfortunate name](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/corona-resort-right-stuff-unfortunate-name/) - Phu Quo island casino is first in the nation to allow Vietnam’s citizens to gamble.
- [Earth Day marks 50 years of failure](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/earth-day-marks-50-years-of-failure/) - Environmental advocacy groups have proven to be no friends of the earth.
- [NagaCorp maps new growth spurt](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/nagacorp-maps-new-growth-spurt/) - Naga3 expansion will place flagship Phnom Penh casino resort among Asia’s largest
- [Singapore icon set for expansion](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/singapore-icon-set-for-expansion/) - Marina Bay Sands President and CEO George Tanasijevich heads the world’s most profitable casino – and it’s getting bigger.
- [GOP sins will tar flawed Democrats](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/gop-sins-will-tar-flawed-democrats/) - Republicans expertly project their own wrongdoing and unpopular policies onto their opponents.
- [Nearly perfect 10 in Singapore](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/nearly-perfect-10-in-singapore/) - In their first decade, Singapore casinos have been good enough to win government approval to expand.
- [Macau goes green](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-goes-green/) - Casino resorts aim to deliver sustainable luxury
- [Macau goes green](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-goes-green-2/) - Casino resorts aim to deliver sustainable luxury
- [Hong Kong mainstreams protests, votes for rights](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/hong-kong-mainstreams-protests-votes-for-rights/) - Hong Kong’s famously practical residents demand democracy on streets, at ballot box.
- [Hong Kong mainstreams protests, votes for rights](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/hong-kong-mainstreams-protests-votes-for-rights-2/) - Hong Kong’s famously practical residents demand democracy on streets, at ballot box.
- [Fear and loathing in Bali with Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/fear-and-loathing-in-bali-with-trainspotting-author-irvine-welsh/) - For the renowned Scottish author, it all began by accidents.
- [Fear and loathing in Bali with Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/fear-and-loathing-in-bali-with-trainspotting-author-irvine-welsh-2/) - For the renowned Scottish author, it all began by accidents.
- [Cambodia online casino ban snuffs Sihanoukville surge](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/cambodia-online-casino-ban-snuffs-sihanoukville-surge/) - China, Philippines are winners in Hun Sen’s decision to stop online gambling.
- [Cambodia online casino ban snuffs Sihanoukville surge](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/cambodia-online-casino-ban-snuffs-sihanoukville-surge-2/) - China, Philippines are winners in Hun Sen’s decision to stop online gambling.
- [Bangkok sightless simulation opens eyes](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/bangkok-sightless-simulation-opens-eyes/) - Science Square, Snake Farm make a fine family outing
- [Bangkok sightless simulation opens eyes](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/bangkok-sightless-simulation-opens-eyes-2/) - Science Square, Snake Farm make a fine family outing
- [Philippines defies China on cross border gambling](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/philippines-defies-china-on-cross-border-gambling/) - Manila won’t easily surrender its lucrative leading position in online gaming.
- [Philippines defies China on cross border gambling](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/philippines-defies-china-on-cross-border-gambling-2/) - Manila won’t easily surrender its lucrative leading position in online gaming.
- [Happy FU Day, today and every day](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/happy-fu-day-today-and-every-day/) - Thanks to Washington, now every day is FU Day.
- [#UWRF19: Richard Fidler uncovers Viking women](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/uwrf19-richard-fidler-uncovers-viking-women/) - We owe our view of Norse legends to Icelandic sagas.
- [#UWRF19: Richard Fidler uncovers Viking women](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/uwrf19-richard-fidler-uncovers-viking-women-2/) - We owe our view of Norse legends to Icelandic sagas.
- [#UWRF19: Reza Aslan says we’re born religious](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/uwrf19-reza-aslan-says-were-born-religious/) - Iranian-American scholar Reza Aslan believes the religious impulse is older than humanity itself.
- [#UWRF19: Reza Aslan says we’re born religious](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/uwrf19-reza-aslan-says-were-born-religious-2/) - Iranian-American scholar Reza Aslan believes the religious impulse is older than humanity itself.
- [#UWRF19: Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler gets the bomb](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/uwrf19-lonely-planet-founder-tony-wheeler-gets-the-bomb/) - Ubud Writers and Readers Festival lets your rub elbows with incredible people.
- [#UWRF19: Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler gets the bomb](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/uwrf19-lonely-planet-founder-tony-wheeler-gets-the-bomb-2/) - Ubud Writers and Readers Festival lets your rub elbows with incredible people.
- [#UWRF19: Democracy aids Indonesian Islamists, Harsono says](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/uwrf19-democracy-aids-indonesian-islamists-harsono-says/) - Rights activist sees religious freedom under threat in world’s third largest democracy.
- [#UWRF19: Democracy aids Indonesian Islamists, Harsono says](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/uwrf19-democracy-aids-indonesian-islamists-harsono-says-2/) - Rights activist sees religious freedom under threat in world’s third largest democracy.
- [New Macau leader faces casino license expiry](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/new-macau-leader-faces-casino-license-expiry/) - Beijing didn’t select Ho Iat Seng to make waves
- [Asia needs Caesars’ Las Vegas flair](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/asia-needs-caesars-las-vegas-flair/) - Caesars Korea would bring welcome pizzazz to a tough market
- [Asia needs Caesars’ Las Vegas flair](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/asia-needs-caesars-las-vegas-flair-2/) - Caesars Korea would bring welcome pizzazz to a tough market
- [Analysts defy Adelson, predict Asia casino glut](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/analysts-defy-adelson-predict-asia-casino-glut/) - Las Vegas Sands founder declared demand for “ten Las Vegases,” but Union Gaming says US$65 billion in new gaming projects create "oversupply"
- [Analysts defy Adelson, predict Asia casino glut](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/analysts-defy-adelson-predict-asia-casino-glut-2/) - Las Vegas Sands founder declared demand for “ten Las Vegases,” but Union Gaming says US$65 billion in new gaming projects create "oversupply"
- [Yokohama casino contest draws Adelson, Sands](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/yokohama-casino-contest-draws-adelson-sands/) - Japan’s second largest city is the first declared contender for an integrated resort in the vicinity of Tokyo.
- [Yokohama casino contest draws Adelson, Sands](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/yokohama-casino-contest-draws-adelson-sands-2/) - Japan’s second largest city is the first declared contender for an integrated resort in the vicinity of Tokyo.
- [Hong Kong protests put Macau, Beijing on edge](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/hong-kong-protests-put-macau-beijing-on-edge/) - The world’s largest casino hub utterly depends on Beijing’s goodwill to prosper.
- [Japan keeps creeping toward casinos](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-keeps-creeping-toward-casinos/) - Delays mount while outstanding issues remain unresolved.
- [Sole Korea casino for Koreans struggles to balance profits, policy imperatives](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/sole-korea-casino-for-koreans-struggles-to-balance-profits-policy-imperatives/) - Kangwon Land faced penalties for having too much gaming revenue, then it cut too deeply and profits plummeted.
- [Sole Korea casino for Koreans struggles to balance profits, policy imperatives](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/sole-korea-casino-for-koreans-struggles-to-balance-profits-policy-imperatives-2/) - Kangwon Land faced penalties for having too much gaming revenue, then it cut too deeply and profits plummeted.
- [Mass market powers Macau casinos](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/mass-market-powers-macau-casinos/) - Amid China’s economic issues, smaller players gaming drive revenue.
- [Mass market powers Macau casinos](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/mass-market-powers-macau-casinos-2/) - Amid China’s economic issues, smaller players gaming drive revenue.
- [Singapore gets what it wants from casinos](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/singapore-gets-what-it-wants-from-casinos/) - Japan and Macau can learn from Singapore how to get maximum benefit from casinos
- [Singapore gets what it wants from casinos](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/singapore-gets-what-it-wants-from-casinos-2/) - Japan and Macau can learn from Singapore how to get maximum benefit from casinos
- [Cambodia casino clashes Australia-listed Donaco with top shareholders, co-founder](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/cambodia-casino-clashes-australia-listed-donaco-with-top-shareholders-co-founder/) - Star Vegas in Poipet, bought for US$369 million, is subject of lawsuits between seller and buyer, and that’s just one of Donaco issues.
- [Osaka sets Japan casino pace](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/osaka-sets-japan-casino-pace/) - Japan’s number three city wants to open its integrated resort by early 2025, a very tight squeeze.
- [Osaka sets Japan casino pace](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/osaka-sets-japan-casino-pace-2/) - Japan’s number three city wants to open its integrated resort by early 2025, a very tight squeeze.
- [Saipan casino has old woes, new site](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/saipan-casino-has-old-woes-new-site/) - Imperial Pacific International projects it can’t finish its beachfront hotel by February 2021 deadline, but is getting another development site.
- [Saipan casino has old woes, new site](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/saipan-casino-has-old-woes-new-site-2/) - Imperial Pacific International projects it can’t finish its beachfront hotel by February 2021 deadline, but is getting another development site.
- [Putin-Kim summit site lures casinos, Suncity](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/putin-kim-summit-site-lures-casinos-suncity/) - Hong Kong listed Summit Ascent – with top shareholder Macau junket promoter Suncity – and NagaCorp have pioneering casinos near Vladivostok.
- [Singapore casino growth carries steep price](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/singapore-casino-growth-carries-steep-price/) - Permission to expand means higher taxes now and later, plus investing at least $6.6 billion.
- [Macau March revenue falls, and investors love it](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-march-revenue-falls-and-investors-love-it/) - Casino winnings in Macau decreased 0.4%, beating analyst expectations.
- [Osaka votes for a casino sooner or later](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/osaka-votes-for-a-casino-sooner-or-later/) - No one is asking Japanese public if it wants casinos at all.
- [Osaka votes for a casino sooner or later](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/osaka-votes-for-a-casino-sooner-or-later-2/) - No one is asking Japanese public if it wants casinos at all.
- [Slowing China economy flashes Macau danger sign](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/slowing-china-economy-flashes-macau-danger-sign/) - Recent stimulus measures have generated mixed reviews from analysts.
- [Slowing China economy flashes Macau danger sign](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/slowing-china-economy-flashes-macau-danger-sign-2/) - Recent stimulus measures have generated mixed reviews from analysts.
- [MGM moves ahead in Japan casino race with Orix](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/mgm-moves-ahead-in-japan-casino-race-with-orix/) - It’s inevitable that Japan’s corporate giants will want a big piece of casino resorts.
- [MGM moves ahead in Japan casino race with Orix](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/mgm-moves-ahead-in-japan-casino-race-with-orix/) - It’s inevitable that Japan’s corporate giants will want a big piece of casino resorts.
- [Macau extends SJM, MGM casinos to June 2022](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-extends-sjm-mgm-casinos-to-june-2022-2/) - Alignment of expiry dates for all six casino operators doesn’t clarify what will happen next.
- [Macau extends SJM, MGM casinos to June 2022](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-extends-sjm-mgm-casinos-to-june-2022-3/) - Alignment of expiry dates for all six casino operators doesn’t clarify what will happen next.
- [Macau extends SJM, MGM casinos to June 2022](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-extends-sjm-mgm-casinos-to-june-2022/) - Alignment of expiry dates for all six casino operators doesn’t clarify what will happen next.
- [Japan regional casino action heats up](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-regional-casino-action-heats-up/) - Wakayama, just over an hour from Osaka, may have the right stuff to win an integrated resort license.
- [Japan regional casino action heats up](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-regional-casino-action-heats-up-2/) - Wakayama, just over an hour from Osaka, may have the right stuff to win an integrated resort license.
- [Big trends loom behind Macau casino figures](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/big-trends-loom-behind-macau-casino-figures/) - Chinese New Year period casino revenue was down slightly from a year ago
- [Big trends loom behind Macau casino figures](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/big-trends-loom-behind-macau-casino-figures-2/) - Chinese New Year period casino revenue was down slightly from a year ago
- [Adelson illness won’t shift Sands from Japan](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/adelson-illness-wont-shift-sands-from-japan/) - Las Vegas Sands has a deep corporate bench and experience winning a casino concession with its founder sidelined.
- [Adelson illness won’t shift Sands from Japan](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/adelson-illness-wont-shift-sands-from-japan-2/) - Las Vegas Sands has a deep corporate bench and experience winning a casino concession with its founder sidelined.
- [Galaxy, Francis Lui lead Macau casino industry](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/galaxy-francis-lui-lead-macau-casino-industry/) - Gaming newcomer overcame star rivals to top industry.
- [Galaxy, Francis Lui lead Macau casino industry](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/galaxy-francis-lui-lead-macau-casino-industry/) - Gaming newcomer overcame star rivals to top industry.
- [Three casino resorts coming to Korean gateway](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/three-casino-resorts-coming-to-korean-gateway/) - Incheon tests integrated resort business model in foreigner-only casino market.
- [Three casino resorts coming to Korean gateway](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/three-casino-resorts-coming-to-korean-gateway-2/) - Incheon tests integrated resort business model in foreigner-only casino market.
- [Galaxy keeps reaching for the stars](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/galaxy-keeps-reaching-for-the-stars/) - Customer appeal across the board, understanding authorities key Galaxy’s success,
- [Galaxy keeps reaching for the stars](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/galaxy-keeps-reaching-for-the-stars-2/) - Customer appeal across the board, understanding authorities key Galaxy’s success,
- [Stanley Ho family feud flares again](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/stanley-ho-family-feud-flares-again/) - Pansy Ho moves to control SJM Holdings, the legacy of her father’s casino monopoly.
- [Macau casino revenue fall ‘not THAT bad’](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casino-revenue-fall-not-that-bad/) - January’s 5% drop, the first down month in two years, means less than it seems.
- [Macau casino revenue fall ‘not THAT bad’](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casino-revenue-fall-not-that-bad-2/) - January’s 5% drop, the first down month in two years, means less than it seems.
- [Investors Misunderstand Macau Transition](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/investors-misunderstand-macau-transition/) - Every year, I make forecasts about Asian gaming for the year ahead. For 2019, I’m offering predictions about Macau, Japan, online gaming, Korea and Vietnam. And as the year wraps up, I check the accuracy of those forecasts. Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a blogger for Forbes, […]
- [Investors Misunderstand Macau Transition](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/investors-misunderstand-macau-transition-2/) - Every year, I make forecasts about Asian gaming for the year ahead. For 2019, I’m offering predictions about Macau, Japan, online gaming, Korea and Vietnam. And as the year wraps up, I check the accuracy of those forecasts. Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a blogger for Forbes, […]
- [Old Macau thinking rules casino license expiry](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/old-macau-thinking-rules-casino-license-expiry/) - Uncertainty over gaming concessions is tanking Macau shares.
- [Old Macau thinking rules casino license expiry](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/old-macau-thinking-rules-casino-license-expiry-2/) - Uncertainty over gaming concessions is tanking Macau shares.
- [HKZM Bridge: Macau’s missing link for MICE?](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/hkzm-bridge-macaus-missing-link-for-mice/) - The world’s longest sea crossing connects Macau’s convention ambitions to Hong Kong’s airport.
- [HKZM Bridge: Macau’s missing link for MICE?](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/hkzm-bridge-macaus-missing-link-for-mice-2/) - The world’s longest sea crossing connects Macau’s convention ambitions to Hong Kong’s airport.
- [Fatima Bhutto can’t avoid politics](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/fatima-bhutto-cant-avoid-politics/) - New novel from Pakistani writer, born into a tragic ruling dynasty, examines radicalization when “the world’s on fire”
- [Fatima Bhutto can’t avoid politics](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/fatima-bhutto-cant-avoid-politics/) - New novel from Pakistani writer, born into a tragic ruling dynasty, examines radicalization when “the world’s on fire”
- [Moving US-North Korea relations ahead to 1994](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/moving-us-north-korea-relations-ahead-to-1994/) - Award-winning foreign correspondent Barbara Demick believes the Clinton administration got it “most right” with North Korea.
- [Moving US-North Korea relations ahead to 1994](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/moving-us-north-korea-relations-ahead-to-1994-2/) - Award-winning foreign correspondent Barbara Demick believes the Clinton administration got it “most right” with North Korea.
- [Jeju Dream Tower gambles on ‘Korean lifestyle’](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/jeju-dream-tower-gambles-on-korean-lifestyle/) - Jeju Dream Tower tries to make an iconic urban integrated resort, with a foreigners-only casino, pay on the scenic holiday island
- [Jeju Dream Tower gambles on ‘Korean lifestyle’](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/jeju-dream-tower-gambles-on-korean-lifestyle-2/) - Jeju Dream Tower tries to make an iconic urban integrated resort, with a foreigners-only casino, pay on the scenic holiday island
- [Bali helps Anuradha Roy pen pan-Hindu parable](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/bali-helps-anuradha-roy-pen-pan-hindu-parable/) - Indian novelist finds lessons for modern India in 1920s Bali
- [Bali helps Anuradha Roy pen pan-Hindu parable](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/bali-helps-anuradha-roy-pen-pan-hindu-parable-2/) - Indian novelist finds lessons for modern India in 1920s Bali
- [Bush 41 bears twin albatross of Willie Horton, Clarence Thomas and all they wrought](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/bush-41-bears-twin-albatross-of-willie-horton-clarence-thomas-and-all-they-wrought/) - Patrician paragon George Bush perpetrated the single most indecently hypocritical presidential act of the 20th century.
- [Billionaire Okada still wants Wynn, Universal](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/billionaire-okada-still-wants-wynn-universal/) - Pachinko mogul says he’s the victim of people he helped, including Steve Wynn
- [Fatima Bhutto searches for home as world burns](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/fatima-bhutto-searches-for-home-as-world-burns/) - Author of The Runaways, born into a tragic Pakistani political dynasty, ponders where she belongs
- [Fatima Bhutto searches for home as world burns](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/fatima-bhutto-searches-for-home-as-world-burns-2/) - Author of The Runaways, born into a tragic Pakistani political dynasty, ponders where she belongs
- [Sheldon Adelson tops Asian Gaming Power 50](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/sheldon-adelson-tops-asian-gaming-power-50/) - Las Vegas Sands founder and controlling shareholder tops Inside Asian Gaming’s list of influentials for sixth consecutive year.
- [Happy FU Day! Find your own odd couple](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/happy-fu-day-find-your-own-odd-couple/) - “On November 13th, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence...”
- [Happy FU Day! Find your own odd couple](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/happy-fu-day-find-your-own-odd-couple-2/) - “On November 13th, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence...”
- [Trump aids Adelson Japan casino quest: report](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/trump-aids-adelson-japan-casino-quest-report/) - Las Vegas Sands founder Adelson has “unprecedented” influence and access to Trump White House, according to investigative report.
- [Trump aids Adelson Japan casino quest: report](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/trump-aids-adelson-japan-casino-quest-report-2/) - Las Vegas Sands founder Adelson has “unprecedented” influence and access to Trump White House, according to investigative report.
- [Investors discount Macau’s healthy transition](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/investors-discount-macaus-healthy-transition/) - Macau’s move from VIP toward the mass market segment is a winner, even if stock markets don't get it.
- [Investors discount Macau’s healthy transition](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/investors-discount-macaus-healthy-transition-2/) - Macau’s move from VIP toward the mass market segment is a winner, even if stock markets don't get it.
- [Saipan casino gets hotel extension, axes builders](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/saipan-casino-gets-hotel-extension-axes-builders/) - US Pacific territory’s government keeps enabling junket linked developer’s failure.
- [Saipan casino gets hotel extension, axes builders](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/saipan-casino-gets-hotel-extension-axes-builders-2/) - US Pacific territory’s government keeps enabling junket linked developer’s failure.
- [Japan casinos face new Diet date](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-casinos-face-new-diet-date/) - Integrated resorts in the world’s third largest economy have another date with lawmakers.
- [Japan casinos face new Diet date](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-casinos-face-new-diet-date-2/) - Integrated resorts in the world’s third largest economy have another date with lawmakers.
- [Conversano created ‘design with a punchline’](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/conversano-created-design-with-a-punchline/) - Henry Conversano helped create modern casino resort.
- [Macau casinos ace August, beating estimates](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casinos-ace-august-beating-estimates/) - Macau’s underlying trends, not monthly hiccups are the real growth story.
- [Macau casinos ace August, beating estimates](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casinos-ace-august-beating-estimates/) - Macau’s underlying trends, not monthly hiccups are the real growth story.
- [Okada claims elaborate frame up behind ouster](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/okada-claims-elaborate-frame-up-behind-ouster/) - Japanese billionaire says alleged financial misconduct was all a set up.
- [Okada claims elaborate frame up behind ouster](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/okada-claims-elaborate-frame-up-behind-ouster-2/) - Japanese billionaire says alleged financial misconduct was all a set up.
- [Ousted pachinko mogul Okada vows return](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ousted-pachinko-mogul-okada-vows-return/) - Creator of Okada Manila says he’s innocent, betrayed by family and protege.
- [Making a positive case against racism](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/making-a-positive-case-against-racism/) - A year after Charlottesville, conversations about race in America still evoke acrimony and resentment – among people who agree
- [Making a positive case against racism](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/making-a-positive-case-against-racism-2/) - A year after Charlottesville, conversations about race in America still evoke acrimony and resentment – among people who agree
- [Tribal casinos crave Japan, snub Chief Wahoo](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/tribal-casinos-crave-japan-snub-chief-wahoo/) - Native Americans play the ethnic card for Japan, but ignore Cleveland Indians’ logo controversy despite huge baseball advertising spend.
- [Tribal casinos crave Japan, snub Chief Wahoo](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/tribal-casinos-crave-japan-snub-chief-wahoo-2/) - Native Americans play the ethnic card for Japan, but ignore Cleveland Indians’ logo controversy despite huge baseball advertising spend.
- [Philippines rebounds from fatal casino attack](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/philippines-rebounds-from-fatal-casino-attack/) - After year’s deadly casino attack, Resorts World Manila and Philippine gaming are moving ahead strongly.
- [Philippines rebounds from fatal casino attack](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/philippines-rebounds-from-fatal-casino-attack-2/) - After year’s deadly casino attack, Resorts World Manila and Philippine gaming are moving ahead strongly.
- [US casinos at risk in China trade war](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/us-casinos-at-risk-in-china-trade-war/) - China skillfully practices economic diplomacy through state and consumer spending to reward friends and punish enemies.
- [Japan casino camp cool on hot idea](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-casino-camp-cool-on-hot-idea/) - Instead of one US$10 billion integrated resort, why not three US$3 billion IRs?
- [Macau casino legend Stanley Ho folds](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casino-legend-stanley-ho-folds/) - Former casino kingpin leaves big challenges for successors.
- [Japan can create its own great casino resorts](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-can-create-its-own-great-casino-resorts/) - Don’t bet on Macau casinos getting a piece of the action in Japan.
- [Macau utterly depends on China’s goodwill](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-utterly-depends-on-chinas-goodwill/) - UnionPay restrictions and mainland China gambling rumblings underscore Macau’s vulnerability.
- [Macau run still has legs](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-run-still-has-legs/) - May revenue growth fell short of expectations but trends remain positive.
- [Japan hits pachinko harder than casinos will](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-hits-pachinko-harder-than-casinos-will/) - Pachinko has lost two-thirds of its players since 1995, but revenue in ubiquitous, cacophonous parlors still tops US$30 billion.
- [Vietnam resists Trump team on US owned casino](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/vietnam-resists-trump-team-on-us-owned-casino/) - US diplomats wanted Wall Street tycoon’s casino opened to Vietnamese gamblers
- [Don’t ban Chief Wahoo! Team Indian casinos with baseball to empower Native Americans](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/dont-ban-chief-wahoo-team-indian-casinos-with-baseball-to-empower-native-americans/) - Fighting a cartoon doesn’t help tribal communities.
- [US sports betting would light Asia online fuse](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/us-sports-betting-would-light-asia-online-fuse/) - US Supreme court decision to expand betting would open floodgates in Asia, experts say.
- [US sports betting would light Asia online fuse](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/us-sports-betting-would-light-asia-online-fuse-2/) - US Supreme court decision to expand betting would open floodgates in Asia, experts say.
- [Japan will legalize casinos its own way](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-will-legalize-casinos-its-own-way/) - Las Vegas giants don’t like Japan’s proposed casino regulations, but they’ll have to play by house rules or find another game.
- [Cambodia border casino hub extends ambitions](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/cambodia-border-casino-hub-extends-ambitions/) - Poipet, the gaming enclave closest to Bangkok, looks to broaden its appeal beyond the Thai market.
- [Cambodia border casino hub extends ambitions](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/cambodia-border-casino-hub-extends-ambitions-2/) - Poipet, the gaming enclave closest to Bangkok, looks to broaden its appeal beyond the Thai market.
- [Casino billionaire Chen came looking for oil](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/casino-billionaire-chen-came-looking-for-oil/) - Chen Lip Keong came to Cambodia to find oil, but struck gold in the casino business.
- [Casino billionaire Chen came looking for oil](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/casino-billionaire-chen-came-looking-for-oil-2/) - Chen Lip Keong came to Cambodia to find oil, but struck gold in the casino business.
- [Macau’s future is clear, except for when it begins](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macaus-future-is-clear-except-for-when-it-begins/) - Mass market gaming and tourism is the key to Macau’s future, but high rollers continue to lead its rebound.
- [Architect Steelman: Create casino destinations](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/architect-steelman-create-casino-destinations/) - Integrated entertainment districts make all their parts better, renowned resort designer says.
- [Architect Steelman: Create casino destinations](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/architect-steelman-create-casino-destinations-2/) - Integrated entertainment districts make all their parts better, renowned resort designer says.
- [MGM Cotai arrives late to Macau party](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/mgm-cotai-arrives-late-to-macau-party/) - Two years behind schedule and still incomplete, MGM Cotai opens to mixed reviews.
- [MGM Cotai arrives late to Macau party](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/mgm-cotai-arrives-late-to-macau-party-2/) - Two years behind schedule and still incomplete, MGM Cotai opens to mixed reviews.
- [Muslim comic stands up for tolerance, diversity](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/muslim-comic-stands-up-for-tolerance-diversity/) - Hajabi comic Safdiyah Ma’ruf brings tolerance center stage hosting Indonesia’s United Journalists for Diversity (SEJUK) awards.
- [Steve Wynn still looms over Wynn Resorts](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/steve-wynn-still-looms-over-wynn-resorts/) - As long as Wynn founder remains company’s top shareholder, regulators must scrutinize sexual misconduct allegations.
- [Steve Wynn still looms over Wynn Resorts](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/steve-wynn-still-looms-over-wynn-resorts-2/) - As long as Wynn founder remains company’s top shareholder, regulators must scrutinize sexual misconduct allegations.
- [Saipan billionaire casino owner doubles down](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/saipan-billionaire-casino-owner-doubles-down/) - Imperial Pacific International majority stockholder Cui Lijie lost her place on Forbes Asia’s Hong Kong Rich List but keeps buying shares.
- [Saipan billionaire casino owner doubles down](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/saipan-billionaire-casino-owner-doubles-down-2/) - Imperial Pacific International majority stockholder Cui Lijie lost her place on Forbes Asia’s Hong Kong Rich List but keeps buying shares.
- [Wynn leaves company with his name on it](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/wynn-leaves-company-with-his-name-on-it/) - Founder’s resignation comes days after my blog asked if Wynn Resorts would be better off without Steve Wynn.
- [Writing China from different angles](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/writing-china-from-different-angles/) - Chinese authors Jung Chang and Lijia Zhang share their unique perspectives on China
- [Indonesia’s Sakdiyah Ma’ruf battles Islamic extremism, intolerance with laughs](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/indonesias-sakdiyah-maruf-battles-islamic-extremism-intolerance-with-laughs/) - Pioneering hijabi comedian wins accolades for her dissent, belly laughs for her jokes.
- [Indonesia’s Sakdiyah Ma’ruf battles Islamic extremism, intolerance with laughs](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/indonesias-sakdiyah-maruf-battles-islamic-extremism-intolerance-with-laughs-2/) - Pioneering hijabi comedian wins accolades for her dissent, belly laughs for her jokes.
- [East meets West in casino mogul Lawrence Ho](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/east-meets-west-in-casino-mogul-lawrence-ho/) - Ho’s unique background sets the stage for success beyond Macau.
- [East meets West in casino mogul Lawrence Ho](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/east-meets-west-in-casino-mogul-lawrence-ho-2/) - Ho’s unique background sets the stage for success beyond Macau.
- [Billionaire Baha Mar buyer Henry Cheng joins Forbes Hong Kong’s 50 Richest for 2018](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/billionaire-baha-mar-buyer-henry-cheng-joins-forbes-hong-kongs-50-richest-for-2018/) - Cheng Yu-tung’s son and successor has expanded his family’s role in casinos beyond Macau into Vietnam, Australia and the Bahamas
- [Billionaire Baha Mar buyer Henry Cheng joins Forbes Hong Kong’s 50 Richest for 2018](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/billionaire-baha-mar-buyer-henry-cheng-joins-forbes-hong-kongs-50-richest-for-2018-2/) - Cheng Yu-tung’s son and successor has expanded his family’s role in casinos beyond Macau into Vietnam, Australia and the Bahamas
- [CNBC’s Cramer makes mad money call on Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/cnbcs-cramer-makes-mad-money-call-on-macau/) - TV stock picker calls “buy” on Macau, ignores license expiration risk
- [CNBC’s Cramer makes mad money call on Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/cnbcs-cramer-makes-mad-money-call-on-macau-2/) - TV stock picker calls “buy” on Macau, ignores license expiration risk
- [Looking back, ahead at Asian gaming](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/looking-back-ahead-at-asian-gaming/) - Checking my predictions for 2017 and making new ones for 2018
- [Enter the Dragon2: Naga addition lifts Cambodia](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/enter-the-dragon2-naga-addition-lifts-cambodia/) - NagaWorld’s Naga2 extension promotes Indochina’s largest integrated resort to the regional top rank.
- [James Packer recovering from humbling year](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/james-packer-recovering-from-humbling-year/) - Australian billionaire and his Crown Resorts give up global ambitions, focus on defending top spot at home
- [Islam a mother – and daughter – can love](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/islam-a-mother-and-daughter-can-love/) - Marina Mahathir fights for women’s rights using Qur’an
- [Bali finds a way without Chinese tourists](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/bali-finds-a-way-without-chinese-tourists/) - Mount Agung volcano means a less happy new year than usual for Indonesia’s top tourist island
- [China travelers to move down market](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/china-travelers-to-move-down-market/) - Global shifts in mainland China visitor characteristics are now showing in Macau.
- [VIP revival tests Macau mass hysteria](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/vip-revival-tests-macau-mass-hysteria/) - Maybe the authorities don’t really favor mass market over high roller play.
- [Donaco, Joey Lim ready for big time](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/donaco-joey-lim-ready-for-big-time/) - After Indochina success, grandson of Genting Group founder Lim Goh Tong targets Japan role.
- [Don’t slam Japan casino decisions unmade](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/dont-slam-japan-casino-decisions-unmade/) - Passing final casino legalization bill needs consensus first
- [Questions cloud Macau recovery](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/questions-cloud-macau-recovery/) - High rollers dominate gains, leading to sustainability issues.
- [Questions cloud Macau recovery](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/questions-cloud-macau-recovery/) - High rollers dominate gains, leading to sustainability issues.
- [Venetian Macao changed the game](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/venetian-macao-changed-the-game/) - Opened a decade ago, the world’s largest casino resort transformed Macau, Sheldon Adelso and global gaming
- [Race baiting for hire plays in South Africa; US next?](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/race-baiting-for-hire-plays-in-south-africa-us-next/) - Exploiting racial divides as a diversion from political, legal woes seems perfect for Trump.
- [You Humps Quit Badmouthing Queens](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/you-humps-quit-badmouthing-queens/) - Pursuing the American dream will survive the nightmare of Donald Trump.
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- [Transportation changes alone won’t move Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/transportation-changes-alone-wont-move-macau/) - Macau needs policy changes to make the most of multi-billion dollar transportation improvements.
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- [Lawrence Ho puts it on the line in Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/lawrence-ho-puts-it-on-the-line-in-macau/) - Melco Crown head pledges more active role as Cotai competition mounts.
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- [China shifts shape Asian gaming in 2017](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/china-shifts-shape-asian-gaming-in-2017/) - Asian gaming isn’t all about China anymore.
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- [Genting Singapore switches casino bet to Japan from Korea](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/genting-singapore-switches-casino-bet-to-japan-from-korea/) - Fearing low returns in Korea, Genting gambles on Japan casino legalization.
- [Macau powers to best gain in 31 months](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-powers-to-best-gain-in-31-months/) - Casino capital’s revenue rises 14.4% in November, fourth straight monthly gain.
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- [New Vegas casino targets Asian Americans](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/new-vegas-casino-targets-asian-americans/) - Lucky Dragon roars onto Strip, targeting Asian American players.
- [Macau casino revenue rises again in October](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casino-revenue-rises-again-in-october/) - After 26 down months, Macau gaming revenue hit a 21 month high in October.
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- [Parisian Macao caps Sands, Adelson Cotai dream](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/parisian-macao-caps-sands-adelson-cotai-dream/) - Eiffel Tower replica marks spot for casino resort just right for Macau’s new normal.
- [Taiwan rolls dice on casinos again](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/taiwan-rolls-dice-on-casinos-again/) - Win or lose, Taipei still holds the cards on casino legalization.
- [Playing the India card in Nepal](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/playing-the-india-card-in-nepal/) - Silver Heritage hopes to tap the Indian market with casinos over the border in Nepal.
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- [Phone betting moves south after Macau ban](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/phone-betting-moves-south-after-macau-ban/) - Proxy betting means the casino is always just a phone call away.
- [Sheldon Adelson heads Asian Gaming Power 50](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/sheldon-adelson-heads-asian-gaming-power-50/) - Las Vegas Sands founder and inventor of Macau’s Cotai Strip tops rankings for 8th time in 9 years.
- [Steve Wynn builds new Palace for old Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/steve-wynn-builds-new-palace-for-old-macau/) - Steve Wynn’s U$4.2 billion Wynn Palace is an old school property in a new Macau.
- [Australia casinos shift China play](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/australia-casinos-shift-china-play/) - After a VIP jackpot, Australia plays the resort card to win more Chinese gamblers
- [Macau losing streak ends with big, new Wynn](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-losing-streak-ends-with-big-new-wynn/) - Gaming revenue in Macau rose in August after Wynn Palace opened, events that may be linked.
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- [Revenue sagging, Asian casinos turn to Europe](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/revenue-sagging-asian-casinos-turn-to-europe/) - Asian casino operators hope integrated resorts can remake Europe’s small, fragmented market.
- [Macau falls for 26th straight month](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-falls-for-26th-straight-month/) - Despite falling casino revenue, another US$7 billion in resorts opens into Macau.
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- [Macau casinos rebound to ‘less bad’ in Q1](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casinos-rebound-to-less-bad-in-q1/) - Detailed gaming results show few signs of genuine recovery.
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- [No winners in war of Wynns](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/no-winners-in-war-of-wynns/) - Lawsuits against Steve Wynn and Wynn Resorts produce more dirt than light.
- [Macau March casino take dashes optimism](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-march-casino-take-dashes-optimism/) - Revenue fell for a 22nd straight month in the world’s gaming hub.
- [Vladivostok brings Russia to Asian gaming party](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/vladivostok-brings-russia-to-asian-gaming-party/) - Macau’s Lawrence Ho expands his reach to northern China, Korea, Japan.
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- [Sands trial to air Macau’s dirty laundry](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/sands-trial-to-air-macaus-dirty-laundry/) - Ousted Sands China president’s lawsuit brings unprecedented scrutiny to Macau casinos.
- [More Chinese New Year visitors, still less Macau casino revenue](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/more-chinese-new-year-visitors-still-less-macau-casino-revenue/) - Macau casino revenue declined in February for the 21st straight month.
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- [Japan casinos still can’t get to first base](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-casinos-still-cant-get-to-first-base/) - Casinos in Japan remain a distant dream despite nearly ideal conditions
- [Lavish Louis XIII Plays On Despite Macau VIP Crash](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/lavish-louis-xiii-plays-on-despite-macau-vip-crash/) - Louis XIII’s time seems past, but ownership insists the ultra luxury property will open this year.
- [Only 8% of Macau’s Chinese visitors plan to return](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/only-8-of-macaus-chinese-visitors-plan-to-return/) - Investment CLSA report underscores Macau’s problems attracting China’s middle class.
- [Only 8% of Macau’s Chinese visitors plan to return](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/only-8-of-macaus-chinese-visitors-plan-to-return/) - Investment CLSA report underscores Macau’s problems attracting China’s middle class.
- [Macau hopes casino losing streak ends at 20](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-hopes-casino-losing-streak-ends-at-20/) - After 20 straight months of lower revenue, Macau may turn positive in February.
- [Macau casino moguls lose big again](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casino-moguls-lose-big-again/) - The global casino capital’s slump has cost Macau casino owners billions.
- [Lawrence Ho triggers Macau mass hysteria](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/lawrence-ho-triggers-macau-mass-hysteria/) - Melco Crown’s Studio City, Macau’s newest resort, aims for mass market customers.
- [Hong Kong’s richest man rewrites history](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/hong-kongs-richest-man-rewrites-history/) - Li Ka-shing’s Watson retail chain changes its birthplace and birth date.
- [Macau casino revenue lowest since 2010](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casino-revenue-lowest-since-2010/) - Gaming revenue fell 34.3% in Macau last year, nearly $15 billion below 2014.
- [Macau goes French, 2016 hot for Manila, India](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-goes-french-2016-hot-for-manila-india/) - A faux Eiffel Tower winning fans and real progress in the Philippines top 2016 predictions.
- [Philippine hit, Macau miss in 2015 predictions](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/philippine-hit-macau-miss-in-2015-predictions/) - Crystal ball was off on Macau recovery, right on Okada fix in the Philippines.
- [Casino fever cools in Korea](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/casino-fever-cools-in-korea/) - Only six of 34 interested parties bid for South Koreas two new casino licenses.
- [Vietnam’s biggest casino ups its resort game](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/vietnams-biggest-casino-ups-its-resort-game/) - Ho Tram puts its money on vacationers in latest shakeup.
- [Macau junket promoters try casino ownership](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-junket-promoters-try-casino-ownership/) - As VIP revenue tumbles, Macau junkets look to casino ownership elsewhere.
- [Macau hits a new five year low in November](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-hits-a-new-five-year-low-in-november/) - Casino capital’s revenue falls of an 18th straight month despite Studio City opening.
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- [Studio City takes Macau in new directions](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/studio-city-takes-macau-in-new-directions/) - Studio City aims for the mass market, turns away from high rollers.
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- [Macau missing major league sports book lounges; Asia beckons for daily fantasy sports](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-missing-major-league-sports-book-lounges-asia-beckons-for-daily-fantasy-sports/) - Sports betting can boost Macau’s gaming revenue; Asia can save daily fantasy sports.
- [Macau missing major league sports book lounges; Asia beckons for daily fantasy sports](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-missing-major-league-sports-book-lounges-asia-beckons-for-daily-fantasy-sports/) - Sports betting can boost Macau’s gaming revenue; Asia can save daily fantasy sports.
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- [Happy FU Day! Buy Lao casino to celebrate?](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/happy-fu-day-buy-lao-casino-to-celebrate/) - Laos’ leading casino is up for bids this Felix Unger Day.
- [Macau casino slump runs to 17 months, Studio City rolls](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casino-slump-runs-to-17-months-studio-city-rolls/) - Macau’s gaming revenue fell for a 17th consecutive month in October despite a star-studded casino opening.
- [Macau casino slump runs to 17 months, Studio City rolls](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casino-slump-runs-to-17-months-studio-city-rolls/) - Macau’s gaming revenue fell for a 17th consecutive month in October despite a star-studded casino opening.
- [Genting’s Lim looks to US for growth](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/gentings-lim-looks-to-us-for-growth/) - The world’s only global casino brand wants bigger pieces of the US market.
- [Future arrives early for Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/future-arrives-early-for-macau/) - Macau’s VIP revenue has tanked before it’s ready for the mass market.
- [Future arrives early for Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/future-arrives-early-for-macau/) - Macau’s VIP revenue has tanked before it’s ready for the mass market.
- [Future arrives early for Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/future-arrives-early-for-macau-2/) - Macau’s VIP revenue has tanked before it’s ready for the mass market.
- [Macau analysts differ after Golden Week gains](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-analysts-differ-after-golden-week-gains/) - Better than expected holiday revenues turns Credit Suisse bullish, others bankers unconvinced.
- [Macau analysts differ after Golden Week gains](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-analysts-differ-after-golden-week-gains/) - Better than expected holiday revenues turns Credit Suisse bullish, others bankers unconvinced.
- [Macau analysts differ after Golden Week gains](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-analysts-differ-after-golden-week-gains-2/) - Better than expected holiday revenues turns Credit Suisse bullish, others bankers unconvinced.
- [Macau analysts differ after Golden Week gains](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-analysts-differ-after-golden-week-gains-3/) - Better than expected holiday revenues turns Credit Suisse bullish, others bankers unconvinced.
- [Japan Billionaire Okada Crafts Philippine Casino Comeback](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-billionaire-okada-crafts-philippine-casino-comeback/) - Manila Bay Resorts fixes legal issues threatening to kill the $2 billion Philippine casino project.
- [Japan Billionaire Okada Crafts Philippine Casino Comeback](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-billionaire-okada-crafts-philippine-casino-comeback-2/) - Manila Bay Resorts fixes legal issues threatening to kill the $2 billion Philippine casino project.
- [Japan Billionaire Okada Crafts Philippine Casino Comeback](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-billionaire-okada-crafts-philippine-casino-comeback-3/) - Manila Bay Resorts fixes legal issues threatening to kill the $2 billion Philippine casino project.
- [Macau leads gaming’s Asia Top 50, but new names on list prosper elsewhere](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-leads-gamings-asia-top-50-but-new-names-on-list-prosper-elsewhere/) - Newcomers to Inside Asian Gaming’s casino who who’s illustrate vibrancy outside Macau.
- [Macau leads gaming’s Asia Top 50, but new names on list prosper elsewhere](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-leads-gamings-asia-top-50-but-new-names-on-list-prosper-elsewhere/) - Newcomers to Inside Asian Gaming’s casino who who’s illustrate vibrancy outside Macau.
- [Macau leads gaming’s Asia Top 50, but new names on list prosper elsewhere](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-leads-gamings-asia-top-50-but-new-names-on-list-prosper-elsewhere-2/) - Newcomers to Inside Asian Gaming’s casino who who’s illustrate vibrancy outside Macau.
- [Macau leads gaming’s Asia Top 50, but new names on list prosper elsewhere](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-leads-gamings-asia-top-50-but-new-names-on-list-prosper-elsewhere-3/) - Newcomers to Inside Asian Gaming’s casino who who’s illustrate vibrancy outside Macau.
- [Macau bubble has burst: Wells Fargo](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-bubble-has-burst-wells-fargo/) - A mainland credit bubble fueled meteoric Macau rise, investment bank suggests, and now it’s burst.
- [Macau bubble has burst: Wells Fargo](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-bubble-has-burst-wells-fargo/) - A mainland credit bubble fueled meteoric Macau rise, investment bank suggests, and now it’s burst.
- [Macau bubble has burst: Wells Fargo](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-bubble-has-burst-wells-fargo-2/) - A mainland credit bubble fueled meteoric Macau rise, investment bank suggests, and now it’s burst.
- [Macau bubble has burst: Wells Fargo](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-bubble-has-burst-wells-fargo-3/) - A mainland credit bubble fueled meteoric Macau rise, investment bank suggests, and now it’s burst.
- [Macau casinos hit five year low, junkets teeter](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casinos-hit-five-year-low-junkets-teeter/) - Monthly revenue in Macau was the lowest since September 2010 amid new VIP gloom.
- [Macau casinos hit five year low, junkets teeter](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casinos-hit-five-year-low-junkets-teeter-2/) - Monthly revenue in Macau was the lowest since September 2010 amid new VIP gloom.
- [Race for new Korea casinos heats up](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/race-for-new-korea-casinos-heats-up/) - South Korea sets surprising rules in its contest for two new casino licenses.
- [Race for new Korea casinos heats up](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/race-for-new-korea-casinos-heats-up-2/) - South Korea sets surprising rules in its contest for two new casino licenses.
- [Manchester United, Macau junket join Cambodia casino](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/manchester-united-macau-junket-join-cambodia-casino/) - Small operator Donaco International enlists big names to aid its $360 million Poipet investment.
- [Manchester United, Macau junket join Cambodia casino](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/manchester-united-macau-junket-join-cambodia-casino-2/) - Small operator Donaco International enlists big names to aid its $360 million Poipet investment.
- [US territory Saipan, promised $7 billion resort, gets mall casino](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/us-territory-saipan-promised-7-billion-resort-gets-mall-casino/) - Macau junket linked Imperial Pacific is creating its integrated resort piece by piece
- [US territory Saipan, promised $7 billion resort, gets mall casino](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/us-territory-saipan-promised-7-billion-resort-gets-mall-casino-2/) - Macau junket linked Imperial Pacific is creating its integrated resort piece by piece
- [US territory Saipan, promised $7 billion resort, gets mall casino](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/us-territory-saipan-promised-7-billion-resort-gets-mall-casino-3/) - Macau junket linked Imperial Pacific is creating its integrated resort piece by piece
- [Brisbane picks a winner for riverfront casino](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/brisbane-picks-a-winner-for-riverfront-casino/) - Australia’s number two gaming operator Echo gets a vital victory over Crown in Queensland.
- [Brisbane picks a winner for riverfront casino](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/brisbane-picks-a-winner-for-riverfront-casino-2/) - Australia’s number two gaming operator Echo gets a vital victory over Crown in Queensland.
- [China currency, equity turmoil adds to Macau’s woes](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/china-currency-equity-turmoil-adds-to-macaus-woes/) - Macau’s casino revenue turned for the worse in August.
- [License expiration looms for Macau casinos](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/license-expiration-looms-for-macau-casinos/) - Add license expiration to the list of Macau casinos operators’ woes.
- [Thailand flirts with casinos again](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/thailand-flirts-with-casinos-again/) - Thailand remains an attractive but unlikely place for casinos.
- [Bahamas casino flounders with China’s help](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/bahamas-casino-flounders-with-chinas-help/) - Beijing’s help may be hindering completion of the $3.5 billion Baha Mar casino resort.
- [Small beats big in Vietnam casino game](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/small-beats-big-in-vietnam-casino-game/) - In Vietnam, small projects have a better success rate than the big resorts the government wants developed.
- [Analysts differ on whether Macau hit bottom in June](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/analysts-differ-on-whether-macau-hit-bottom-in-june/) - Macau’s June revenue plunge inspires optimism in some analysts, downgrades from others.
- [Investors flock to South Korea casino bidding](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/investors-flock-to-south-korea-casino-bidding/) - South Korea is global gaming’s flavor of the month; integrated resorts may give it staying power.
- [Macau leads Asia gaming machine boom](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-leads-asia-gaming-machine-boom/) - Macau’s limit on casino tables fosters growth and profitability of electronic gaming machines.
- [Casinos look outside the box to attract millennials](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/casinos-look-outside-the-box-to-attract-millennials/) - Casinos need new thinking to connect with Generation Y.
- [Bank sees ‘green shoots’ of Macau recovery](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/bank-sees-green-shoots-of-macau-recovery/) - Credit Suisse sees signs of a Macau turnaround in recent trends.
- [Macau government undermines Beijing on gaming rules: expert](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-government-undermines-beijing-on-gaming-rules-expert/) - Research suggests Macau interprets rules to boost casinos, even when Beijing wants to suppress gaming.
- [Cities, developers often squander casinos’ urban clout](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/cities-developers-often-squander-casinos-urban-clout/) - Casinos can be excellent urban stimulants when done right, a veteran gaming executive says.
- [Cambodia casinos in spotlight after $360 mln deal](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/cambodia-casinos-in-spotlight-after-360-mln-deal/) - Australia listed Donaco International’s purchase of Star Vegas in Poipet takes Cambodia border casinos out of the shadows.
- [Galaxy, rival casinos expand as Macau contracts](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/galaxy-rival-casinos-expand-as-macau-contracts/) - A $3 billion expansion of Galaxy Macau kicked off the next wave of Cotai resorts last week.
- [NagaWorld puts Cambodia on Asia casino map](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/nagaworld-puts-cambodia-on-asia-casino-map/) - Phnom Penh’s NagaWorld has big expansion plans and even bigger ambitions.
- [Philippine gaming wins respect under Pagcor chief Naguiat](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/philippine-gaming-wins-respect-under-pagcor-chief-naguiat/) - Top Philippine casino regulator Cristino Naguiat oversees a golden moment for the nation’s gaming business.
- [Macau losing big bet on Chinese tourists](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-losing-big-bet-on-chinese-tourists/) - Tumbling casino revenue highlights the perils of Macau’s increasing reliance of mainland Chinese visitors.
- [Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands changed global casino game](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/singapores-marina-bay-sands-changed-global-casino-game/) - Marina Bay Sands revamped the global casino landscape with its diverse offerings in an iconic package.
- [South Korea casino scene heats up](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/south-korea-casino-scene-heats-up/) - Foreign billionaires, Chinese tourists and Manila casinos spur a new Korean wave of gaming development
- [Morgan Stanley picks global gaming winners](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/morgan-stanley-picks-global-gaming-winners/) - Global gaming looks like a good bet to Morgan Stanley despite Macau’s current woes.
- [‘New normal’ drops Macau March revenue 39%](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/new-normal-drops-macau-march-revenue-39/) - Macau had its tenth consecutive monthly revenue decline in March, though some insiders see signs of recovery.
- [‘New normal’ drops Macau March revenue 39%](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/new-normal-drops-macau-march-revenue-39-2/) - Macau had its tenth consecutive monthly revenue decline in March, though some insiders see signs of recovery.
- [Lee Kuan Yew lacked faith in Singapore](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/lee-kuan-yew-lacked-faith-in-singapore/) - Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew didn’t trust the nation he built enough to abandon the nanny state.
- [Solaire president sees world class in Manila](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/solaire-president-sees-world-class-in-manila/) - Solaire’s Thomas Arasi is betting the Philippines can surprise the gaming world with quality product and service.
- [Melco Crown needs City of Dreams Manila jackpot](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/melco-crown-needs-city-of-dreams-manila-jackpot/) - City of Dreams Manila will show whether Macau casino operator Melco Crown can succeed in a far more challenging market.
- [Strict Singapore casino rules limit revenue](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/strict-singapore-casino-rules-limit-revenue/) - Strict casino regulation in Singapore stems from domestic politics and costs billion in lost revenue.
- [Japan casino prospects fade despite good cards](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-casino-prospects-fade-despite-good-cards/) - Casino legalization in Japan looked like a sure thing a year ago but appears far more distant now.
- [Singapore broke molds with casino legalization](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/singapore-broke-molds-with-casino-legalization/) - Five years on, Singapore’s casino legalization remains admired because they dared to do things right.
- [World first Planet J theme park landing in Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/world-first-planet-j-theme-park-landing-in-macau/) - A groundbreaking high tech playground, Planet J aims to extend Macau’s family appeal.
- [Sri Lanka casino tale highlights political risk](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/sri-lanka-casino-tale-highlights-political-risk/) - Investing in developing markets with weak government institutions is fraught with danger.
- [Macau casino revenue falls again, analysts differ on recovery](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casino-revenue-falls-again-analysts-differ-on-recovery/) - Casino revenue in Macau declines for an eighth month, as some analysts see a bottom.
- [Asia casino outlook for 2015: Macau comes back, Japan moves ahead](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/asia-casino-outlook-for-2015-macau-comes-back-japan-moves-ahead/) - Macau and Japan will bounce back from 2014 disappointments.
- [Manila moves up Asian casino ladder](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/manila-moves-up-asian-casino-ladder/) - Expanding gaming options are raising the Philippines’ profile with punter and tourists.
- [Japan vote could boost casino hopes](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-vote-could-boost-casino-hopes/) - A landslide win for pro-casino Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s party won’t necessarily make the chips fly in Japan.
- [Macau transit visa scare overblown: analysts](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-transit-visa-scare-overblown-analysts/) - Union Gaming Research Macau analysts found business as usual for mainland transit visa mills
- [Despite casino slump, Macau shopping not dropping](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/despite-casino-slump-macau-shopping-not-dropping/) - Sands China’s big bet on Macau retailing keeps paying off handsomely.
- [Despite casino slump, Macau shopping not dropping](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/despite-casino-slump-macau-shopping-not-dropping/) - Sands China’s big bet on Macau retailing keeps paying off handsomely.
- [Macau casinos roll toward a losing year](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casinos-roll-toward-a-losing-year/) - The world’s gaming capital casino revenue declined in November for a sixth straight month, with recovery still distant.
- [Falcone resignation ‘positive’ for Vietnam casino](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/falcone-resignation-‘positive’-for-vietnam-casino/) - The Ho Tram Strip in Vietnam has new management, new money, new golf links and a new plan while hoping for new players.
- [Chinese tastes leaving Macau behind: expert](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/chinese-tastes-leaving-macau-behind-expert/) - Mainland marketing guru and author Shaun Rein says Macau needs to catch up with evolving Chinese consumer preferences.
- [Atlantic City: Macau’s past or Macau’s future?](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/atlantic-city-macau’s-past-or-macau’s-future/) - Once at the top of global gaming, Atlantic City has hit the skids. Macau must change to avert a similar fate.
- [Happy FU Day to Caesars, Manila](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/happy-fu-day-to-caesars-manila/) - This Felix Unger Day, salute Caesars Entertainment’s bid to build a casino resort in the Philippines.
- [Macau casinos take record fall in October](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casinos-take-record-fall-in-october/) - With five straight months of lower casino revenue, Macau could see its first annual decline since liberalization in 2002.
- [Money from Asia fuels Las Vegas rebound](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/money-from-asia-fuels-las-vegas-rebound/) - Asian bettors and investors are leading the comeback in Las Vegas.
- [Singapore regulators push non-gaming revenue](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/singapore-regulators-push-non-gaming-revenue/) - Hotels, conventions and other non-gaming attractions deliver a quarter of the revenue at Singapore’s casino resorts.
- [New Indonesia president faces legislative deadlock](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/new-indonesia-president-faces-legislative-deadlock/) - Indonesia’s old guard aims to derail reformist president Joko Widowo, a potentially transformational political figure.
- [Hong Kong, Beijing need electoral reform all can accept](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/hong-kong-beijing-need-electoral-reform-all-can-accept/) - There must be room to negotiate to let Hong Kong to choose a representative chief executive.
- [Philippines gears up for casino big leagues](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/philippines-gears-up-for-casino-big-leagues/) - Manila’s new integrated resorts will need foreign players by the planeload to meet expectations.
- [Rough September, worse October for Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/rough-september-worse-october-for-macau/) - Even Mainland China’s Golden Week holiday can't fix Macau’s hangover from a dismal September.
- [South Korea casinos bank on Chinese tourists](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/south-korea-casinos-bank-on-chinese-tourists/) - Chinese tourists, liberal benefits to players and integrated resort plans make Standard Chartered Bank bullish on South Korea.
- [Venetian Macao places Sheldon Adelson atop Asian Gaming 50 again this year](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/venetian-macao-places-sheldon-adelson-atop-asian-gaming-50-again-this-year/) - Sands Macao changed the game in Macau; Venetian Macao rewrote the rule book and redrew the map.
- [Activist/author Pisani sees a place for corruption](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/activistauthor-pisani-sees-a-place-for-corruption/) - If you eradicate corruption, whatever replaces it needs to fit its cultural and political context.
- [Hong Kong needs democracy; ‘Occupy the Process’ to get it](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/hong-kong-needs-democracy-‘occupy-the-process’-to-get-it/) - Hong Kong people have the right to choose their own leader without Beijing’s heavy hand interfering.
- [Macau chief Chui faces protest, casino license challenges](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-chief-chui-faces-protest-casino-license-challenges/) - In a second term, Macau chief executive Fernando Chui faces growing labor and political activism, plus looming casino license expirations.
- [Macau revenue falls again, no recovery this year](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-revenue-falls-again-no-recovery-this-year/) - Macau’s casino revenue fell for a third straight month, and analysts don’t see a real upturn before 2015.
- [Macau casinos harness stars’ marketing punch](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casinos-harness-stars’-marketing-punch/) - Entertainment helps Macau casinos market their products even where they can’t mention gambling.
- [Japan casino gold mine may not pan out](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-casino-gold-mine-may-not-pan-out/) - International casino companies may find $5 billion casino resorts in Japan won’t pay off.
- [Junket, hotel investor tries Ho Tram, Vietnam](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/junket-hotel-investor-tries-ho-tram-vietnam/) - Hotel and junket investor Chien Lee has bet on Vietnam’s Ho Tram Strip casino resort cluster.
- [Australia bets on casinos to draw Asian tourists](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/australia-bets-on-casinos-to-draw-asian-tourists/) - Queensland wants three multibillion dollar casino resorts to revive its economy, but the strategy may not be a smart play.
- [Macau casino revenue takes another dip](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casino-revenue-takes-another-dip/) - After a second straight month of lower casino revenue, Macau seems stuck in a rut with no relief in sight.
- [Macau VIP phone betting relies on honor system](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-vip-phone-betting-relies-on-honor-system/) - Macau casinos allow high rollers to bet by phone, with plenty of hang-ups.
- [Macau VIP phone betting relies on honor system](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-vip-phone-betting-relies-on-honor-system-2/) - Macau casinos allow high rollers to bet by phone, with plenty of hang-ups.
- [Saipan casino legalization shows how not to do it](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/saipan-casino-legalization-shows-how-not-to-do-it/) - US owned Saipan looks like a banana republic in its flawed contest for awarding a casino license.
- [Caesars finally gets its piece of Asia in Korea](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/caesars-finally-gets-its-piece-of-asia-in-korea/) - A foothold for Caesars Entertainment in Incheon is unlikely to turn around the casino giant’s declining fortunes.
- [Macau casino shares rally after June revenue falls](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casino-shares-rally-after-june-revenue-falls/) - Investor conviction that June’s revenue fall represents a bottom for Macau’s slump may prove premature.
- [Russia tries to join the Asian gaming boom](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/russia-tries-to-join-the-asian-gaming-boom/) - Vladivostok is a shorter trip than Macau from Beijing and northern China, and Russia hopes casinos there can cash in.
- [Japan tiptoes toward casinos](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-tiptoes-toward-casinos/) - Casino legalization in Japan will be a marathon, not a sprint.
- [Macau investors overreact to bad news](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-investors-overreact-to-bad-news/) - Insiders say recent issues hitting Macau share prices don’t matter much in the long run.
- [Macau investors overreact to bad news](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-investors-overreact-to-bad-news-2/) - Insiders say recent issues hitting Macau share prices don’t matter much in the long run.
- [Macau investors overreact to bad news](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-investors-overreact-to-bad-news-2-2/) - Insiders say recent issues hitting Macau share prices don’t matter much in the long run.
- [Investors demand more from Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/investors-demand-more-from-macau/) - Growth numbers that would make other gaming destinations swoon don’t impress markets in Hong Kong and the US.
- [Never forget the June 4, 1989 massacre in Beijing](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/never-forget-the-june-4-1989-massacre-in-beijing/) - China’s rulers showed their true face to the world 25 years ago, killing hundreds of their own people for daring to want better government.
- [Macau casino minimum bets soar](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casino-minimum-bets-soar/) - In the long run, Macau’s higher table minimums could prove good news for less pricey rivals.
- [Sands Macao: The house that built Sheldon Adelson](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/sands-macao-the-house-that-built-sheldon-adelson/) - Before he struck gold in Macau, the billionaire Las Vegas Sands founder was a Strip B-lister.
- [Sands Macao transformed Macau, Adelson, world](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/sands-macao-transformed-macau-the-world/) - The future of the global casino business and Macau began the day they broke down the doors at Sands Macao.
- [Sands Macao transformed Macau, Adelson, world](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/sands-macao-transformed-macau-the-world-2/) - The future of the global casino business and Macau began the day they broke down the doors at Sands Macao.
- [Sands Macao transformed Macau, Adelson, world](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/sands-macao-transformed-macau-the-world-3/) - The future of the global casino business and Macau began the day they broke down the doors at Sands Macao.
- [Macau stocks: expect a wild ride](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-stocks-expect-a-wild-ride/) - Another winning year for Macau casinos, a volatile one for stocks.
- [Macau stocks: expect a wild ride](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-stocks-expect-a-wild-ride-2/) - Another winning year for Macau casinos, a volatile one for stocks.
- [Macau stocks: expect a wild ride](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-stocks-expect-a-wild-ride-3/) - Another winning year for Macau casinos, a volatile one for stocks.
- [Macau stocks: expect a wild ride](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-stocks-expect-a-wild-ride-4/) - Another winning year for Macau casinos, a volatile one for stocks.
- [Vietnam rolls the dice at Ho Tram](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/vietnam-rolls-the-dice-at-ho-tram/) - Vietnam is the latest entrant in Asia’s casino sweepstakes.
- [Vietnam rolls the dice at Ho Tram](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/vietnam-rolls-the-dice-at-ho-tram-2/) - Vietnam is the latest entrant in Asia’s casino sweepstakes.
- [Rival’s patent dispute roils Macau gaming expo](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/rival’s-patent-dispute-roils-macau-gaming-expo/) - Asia’s biggest gaming industry trade show and conference faces a disruptive rival that’s also a big customer.
- [Rival’s patent dispute roils Macau gaming expo](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/rival’s-patent-dispute-roils-macau-gaming-expo-2/) - Asia’s biggest gaming industry trade show and conference faces a disruptive rival that’s also a big customer.
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- [Solaire shines light on Philippine casino ambitions](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/solaire-shines-light-on-philippine-casino-ambitions/) - Manila’s gaming revenue isn’t growing as fast as its casino aspirations.
- [Solaire shines light on Philippine casino ambitions](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/solaire-shines-light-on-philippine-casino-ambitions-2/) - Manila’s gaming revenue isn’t growing as fast as its casino aspirations.
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- [Macau wannabes court Singapore model](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-wannabes-court-singapore-model/) - Countries across Asia are vying to emulate Macau’s success as a gaming destination by following Singapore's model for casino development.
- [Macau wannabes court Singapore model](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-wannabes-court-singapore-model-2/) - Countries across Asia are vying to emulate Macau’s success as a gaming destination by following Singapore's model for casino development.
- [Macau March casino revenue rises 13%](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-march-casino-revenue-rises-13/) - In a slow month, Macau casinos rake in $4.4 billion.
- [Macau March casino revenue rises 13%](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-march-casino-revenue-rises-13-2/) - In a slow month, Macau casinos rake in $4.4 billion.
- [Please follow me on Forbes.com](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/please-follow-me-on-forbes-com/) - I’m blogging on the casino business in Macau and around Asia for Forbes.com.
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- [Simferopol on the Hudson](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/simferopol-on-the-hudson/) - Only the threat of force and much smarter diplomacy can reverse Russia’s land grab in Crimea.
- [Oscar night warning](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/oscar-night-warning/) - It’s hard to take your eyes off moving pictures. But try.
- [Shutdown Shutdown Bangkok](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/shutdown-shutdown-bangkok/) - The protests in Thailand's capital are no way to run a revolution.
- [King, Hong Kong rabbi offer hopeful praver](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/king-hong-kong-rabbi-offer-hopeful-praver/) - Dr King’s recently unearthed 1962 speech to commemorate the Emancipation Proclamation centennial provides powerful lessons for today.
- [‘Going, going, gone, goodbye’ to Ralph Kiner](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/‘going-going-gone-goodbye’-to-ralph-kiner/) - Ralph Kiner, who passed away Thursday at age 91, did it all and didn’t have to prove it to anyone.
- [New mainland visitors invigorate Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/new-mainland-visitors-invigorate-macau/) - Macau is attracting travelers from farther flung parts of China, but that’s a hollow victory.
- [Macau tests the strength of its brands](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-tests-the-strength-of-its-brands/) - Macau casino owners have been better at building resorts than building brands, which matter more for expansion into new markets.
- [Jack Morris belongs in Cooperstown](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/jack-morris-belongs-in-cooperstown/) - It is incredible – as in totally lacking in credibility – that anyone who thinks Tom Glavine is a Hall of Famer can think Jack Morris is not.
- [Jack Morris belongs in Cooperstown](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/jack-morris-belongs-in-cooperstown-2/) - It is incredible – as in totally lacking in credibility – that anyone who thinks Tom Glavine is a Hall of Famer can think Jack Morris is not.
- [How to succeed in business by really trying](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/how-to-succeed-in-business-by-really-trying/) - A landmark book shows combining free markets and government intervention made Japan, Taiwan and South Korea rich.
- [Ubud encounters: Chauly, Godden, Wibowo explore identity](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-encounters-chauly-godden-wibowo-explore-identity/) - Three writers from outside their national mainstream find themselves through writing memoirs.
- [Penguin blazes trail to Chinese literature](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/penguin-blazes-trail-to-chinese-literature/) - Bertelsmann subsidiary’s publication of modern and classic Chinese novels in English opens a new window to Chinese culture, whatever its motives may be.
- [Japan shuffles toward legal casinos](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/japan-shuffles-toward-legal-casinos/) - The land of the rising sun is the land of rising hopes for the world’s gaming industry, as Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party introduces a bill to legalize casinos.
- [Gaining from China’s air defense zone error](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/gaining-from-china’s-air-defense-zone-error/) - China’s ill-considered moves in the East China Sea present an opportunity for progress on a wider solution to regional maritime disputes.
- [Gaining from China’s air defense zone error](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/gaining-from-china’s-air-defense-zone-error-2/) - China’s ill-considered moves in the East China Sea present an opportunity for progress on a wider solution to regional maritime disputes.
- [Giving thanks for Doris Lessing](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/giving-thanks-for-doris-lessing/) - No one wrote about the emotional workings of the human mind better than Doris Lessing.
- [Ask not what’s happened to America since JFK](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ask-not-what’s-happened-to-america-since-jfk/) - Everything changed on that sunny day in Dallas 50 years ago.
- [Chefs without borders](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/chefs-without-borders/) - Leading Indonesian and Malaysian chefs show, like good fences, good food makes good neighbors.
- [Ubud encounters: Pamuntjak, Lewis live dangerously in novels on 1965 turmoil](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-encounters-pamuntjak-lewis-live-dangerously-in-novels-on-1965-turmoil/) - Two new novels try to pry open the books on Indonesia’s 1965-68 mass killings that remain among the nation’s deepest secrets.
- [Ubud encounters: Goenawan Mohamad names, reserves judgment on Indonesia’s ‘next president’](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-encounters-goenawan-mohamad-names-reserves-judgment-on-indonesia’s-‘next-president’/) - Indonesia’s foremost man of letters and so-called conscience of the nation is “watching” presidential frontrunner Joko Widodo but not yet endorsing him.
- [Solaire names Arasi president, as suggested](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/solaire-names-arasi-president-as-suggested/) - I picked the new president and chief executive officer at Manila’s trailblazing casino resort and have the email to prove it.
- [Ubud encounters: Afghanistan for Afghans](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-encounters-afghanistan-for-afghans/) - Two visitors to Afghanistan think it’s time for foreigners to leave.
- [Ubud encounters: Flanagan takes the bridge](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-encounters-flanagan-takes-the-bridge/) - Gifted Australian writer Richard Flanagan eloquently expresses the impact of the first decade of the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival.
- [Ubud encounters: Jalanan, Jakarta buskers rock](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-encounters-jalanan-jakarta-buskers-rock/) - Daniel Ziv’s documentary tells the lives of three street musicians and much more in their own words and music.
- [Ubud encounters: Uda Agus, Indonesia get social](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-encounters-uda-agus-indonesia-get-social/) - Digital networks and traditional culture blend seamlessly in Indonesia.
- [Ubud encounters: Bernice Chauly calls foul, Angelo Suarez calls cops](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-encounters-bernice-chauly-calls-foul-angelo-suarez-calls-cops/) - Censorship grows in Malaysia, takes new forms in the Philippines.
- [Eat, Stay, Write: Bali for Fodors.com](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/eat-stay-write-bali-for-fodors-com/) - The fruits of my trek across Bali for Fodors.com are beginning to blossom online.
- [Asia tycoons thrive on government handouts](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/asia-tycoons-thrive-on-government-handouts/) - Asian Godfathers debunks the free market capitalist mythology of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, shedding unflattering light on the lifestyles of its most rich and famous.
- [How not to handle a hostage situation](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/how-not-to-handle-a-hostage-situation/) - Kenya’s president shows little sense and less judgment talking to media while attackers were still holding hostages in a Nairobi shopping mall.
- [New questions about US in Vietnam, Philippines](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/new-questions-about-us-in-vietnam-philippines/) - Vietnam and the Philippines aim to get on the global casino map without a major American gaming brand.
- [First grade Rosh Hashanah quiz](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/first-grade-rosh-hashanah-quiz/) - I learned a lesson by trying to teach one to my daughter.
- [First grade Rosh Hashanah quiz](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/first-grade-rosh-hashanah-quiz-2/) - I learned a lesson by trying to teach one to my daughter.
- [First grade Rosh Hashanah quiz](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/first-grade-rosh-hashanah-quiz-3/) - I learned a lesson by trying to teach one to my daughter.
- [Bo Xilai rises again](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/bo-xilai-rises-again/) - With Bo Xilai safely out of sight for more than a year, it’s hard to understand why Beijing bought him back for a courtroom encore.
- [Bo Xilai rises again](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/bo-xilai-rises-again-2/) - With Bo Xilai safely out of sight for more than a year, it’s hard to understand why Beijing bought him back for a courtroom encore.
- [Macau pumps premium](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-pumps-premium/) - Focusing on premium customers may not be the best strategy to develop Macau to its fullest potential as a travel destination.
- [Following the wrong China trail](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/following-the-wrong-china-trail/) - A recent book about China’s overseas business presence raises the wrong questions about who’s doing what for the big motherland in resource-rich treasure troves far off the beaten track.
- [Ryan Braun got off too easy](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ryan-braun-got-off-too-easy/) - Baseball needs to come down harder on drug cheats
- [Everybody up for the 7th inning kvetch](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/everybody-up-for-the-7th-inning-kvetch/) - Baseball’s thoroughly detestable All-Star Game is a perfect time to step up to the plate for a new ballpark tradition, the seventh inning kvetch.
- [Knowing Hong Kong’s place](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/knowing-hong-kong’s-place/) - Sixteen years after the handover to China, Hong Kong is still not the same as the mainland, and that’s precisely what makes it special.
- [Air Asia Indonesia performance doesn’t fly](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/air-asia-indonesia-performance-doesn’t-fly/) - Air Asia founder Tony Fernandes says, “Indonesia is the jewel in our crown.” If he’s serious, he’d better upgrade his royal caretakers.
- [Macau raises the stakes](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-raises-the-stakes/) - Higher table limits and the premium mass market are strong trends in Macau.
- [IBM board of directors does not compute](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ibm-board-of-directors-does-not-compute/) - IBM exemplifies the need to bring fair voting to board of directors elections.
- [Unhappy Earth Day, Mom](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/unhappy-earth-day-mom/) - Environmental groups are no friends of the earth. Their hot air adds to global warming.
- [Stepping up to the political plate](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/stepping-up-to-the-political-plate/) - Baseball’s political heavy hitters muscle up , and in Chicago, the sport makes strange bedfellows.
- [Stepping up to the political plate](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/stepping-up-to-the-political-plate/) - Baseball’s political heavy hitters muscle up , and in Chicago, the sport makes strange bedfellows.
- [Stepping up to the political plate](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/stepping-up-to-the-political-plate-3/) - Baseball’s political heavy hitters muscle up , and in Chicago, the sport makes strange bedfellows.
- [Stepping up to the political plate](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/stepping-up-to-the-political-plate-2/) - Baseball’s political heavy hitters muscle up , and in Chicago, the sport makes strange bedfellows.
- [Fodors.com pick Sarong rises in Miele Asia 20](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/fodors-com-pick-sarong-rises-in-miele-asia-20/) - Finally, a “best-of” restaurant that I’ve sampled, that follows my taste – and advice.
- [Meet the new bosses](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/meet-the-new-bosses/) - Despite waves of optimism greeting Pope Francis and Xi Jinping, don’t expect these new leaders to let loose winds of change in the Catholic Church or China.
- [Surgeon-Poet Hall doubles in LA book awards](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/surgeon-poet-hall-doubles-in-la-book-awards/) - Dr Neal Hall’s Nigger for Life wins the poetry prize and grand prize from the LA Book Festival.
- [Surgeon-Poet Hall doubles in LA book awards](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/surgeon-poet-hall-doubles-in-la-book-awards-2/) - Dr Neal Hall’s Nigger for Life wins the poetry prize and grand prize from the LA Book Festival.
- [Download Dead Sea, Down with Amazon](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/download-dead-sea-down-with-amazon/) - The publisher wants to give me a book, but Amazon won’t let it.
- [Casino billionaires risk all in brawl](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/casino-billionaires-risk-all-in-brawl/) - The long running feud between casino mogul Steve Wynn and pachinko king Kazuo Okada could end badly for both.
- [Taking up cultural residency](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/taking-up-cultural-residency/) - If you chose to live in a different society, you have an obligation to respect and honor its culture and traditions, as well as enjoying the benefits.
- [Taking up cultural residency](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/taking-up-cultural-residency-3/) - If you chose to live in a different society, you have an obligation to respect and honor its culture and traditions, as well as enjoying the benefits.
- [Taking up cultural residency](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/taking-up-cultural-residency-2/) - If you chose to live in a different society, you have an obligation to respect and honor its culture and traditions, as well as enjoying the benefits.
- [No more Stupid Bowls, Stupidomes](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/no-more-stupid-bowls-stupidomes/) - Taxpayers take a bath on big time sports. It’s time they get something real in return for footing stadium bills.
- [Hangover awaits Macau after 2012 feast](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/hangover-awaits-macau-after-2012-feast/) - Macau closes out another banner year but 2013 may prove far more challenging.
- [Al Jareeza comes to America](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/al-jareeza-comes-to-america/) - US news consumers will benefit from the chance to watch Al Jazeera coverage. Time Warner Cable does its subscribers a disservice by dropping the channel.
- [Signs of getting it right in Macau](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/signs-of-getting-it-right-in-macau/) - Getting more mass market business is helping Macau lift its game as a tourist destination.
- [Royal hoax hand wringing misses point](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/royal-hoax-hand-wringing-misses-point/) - A much loved nurse and mother killing herself over a perceived disservice to the British royal family is the most compelling reason yet to abolish the monarchy.
- [China seen from the bottom up](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/china-seen-from-the-bottom-up/) - Novelist Sheng Keyi, author of Northern Girls, depicts the China its leadership ignores.
- [Chutzpah runs for president](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/chutzpah-runs-for-president/) - Mitt Romney’s campaign is based on extraordinary nerve and lies. Consider that, then, above all, do your duty and vote.
- [Macau casino revenue numbers hide real news](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-casino-revenue-numbers-hide-real-news/) - Mass market gaming and the growth of Cotai have begun reshaping Macau.
- [Ubud encounters: Louise Doughty lets fly](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-encounters-louise-doughty-lets-fly/) - Writer Louise Doughty doesn’t shy away from controversy in her work or in person.
- [Ubud encounters: Jeffrey Eugenides ‘Greeks it up’](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-encounters-jeffrey-eugenides-‘greeks-it-up’/) - The novelist had to explore his roots to write the Pulitzer Prize winner novel Middlesex.
- [Ubud encounters: start the day with Lemn Sissay](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-encounters-start-the-day-with-lemn-sissay/) - UK poet and playwright Lemn Sissay reveals his morning ritual.
- [Ubud encounters: Neal Hall, surgeon-poet, moves many](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-encounters-neal-hall-surgeon-poet-moves-many/) - Neal Hall’s Nigger for Life isn’t about race.
- [Ubud encounters: Justin Torres gets angry, Neal Hall moves](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/ubud-encounters-justin-torres-gets-angry-neal-hall-moves/) - At the Ubud Writers Festival, talking with novelist Justin Torres, surgeon-poet Neal Hall
- [Living the naughty expat dream in Ubud](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/living-the-naughty-expat-dream-in-ubud/) - This year’s Ubud Writers & Readers Festival gives me a chance to revisit Naughty Nuri’s as it begins a new era.
- [Sands Cotai opens in falling Macau tide](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/sands-cotai-opens-in-falling-macau-tide/) - Macau’s newest resort has opened in the midst of a rare growth slump for the world’s gaming capital.
- [Muslims, stop swallowing extremist bait](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/muslims-stop-swallowing-extremist-bait/) - Violent reactions to anti-Muslim provocations foster a cycle of hate that benefits fanatics on all sides.
- [‘We own this country,’ GOP believes](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/‘we-own-this-country’-gop-believes/) - Four little words from Marco Rubio’s speech neatly sum up the Republican Party and the sad state of US politics.
- [Fareeding between the lines in Zakaria flap](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/fareeding-between-the-lines-in-zakaria-flap/) - Fareed Zakaria’s plagiarism slip highlights deeper, more troubling trends for the formerly interesting celebrity journalist
- [GOP inside scoop: still chilly on Romney](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/gop-inside-scoop-still-chilly-on-romney/) - Even through he’s picked a running mate, it’s still presumptive to call Mitt Romney the Republican presidential nominee. GOP elites are wracking their brains trying to find a better idea to defeat Barack Obama.
- [Put one ring on my middle finger](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/put-one-ring-on-my-middle-finger/) - The Olympics showcase the worst of humankind, not the best, in a quadrennial global mass exercise in greed and hypocrisy. To escape, run your own marathon – away from broadcasts and sponsors.
- [McYale with the death penalty – and no backtalk](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/mcyale-with-the-death-penalty-–-and-no-backtalk/) - Yale’s Singapore branch campus promises to uphold liberal arts values but compromises with the city’s illiberal regime.
- [Macau bribe tale winds toward Beijing, Vegas](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/macau-bribe-tale-winds-toward-beijing-vegas/) - A new probe into ties between Sands China and Macau lawyer/official Leonel Alves puts company chairman Sheldon Adelson in the middle of a deepening mess.
- [Holiday in Cambodia no longer a joke](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/holiday-in-cambodia-no-longer-a-joke/) - Cambodia has come a long way since the days of the Khmer Rouge and the Dead Kennedys, and visitors get a lot to take home.
- [Next Hong Kong handover due in 2017](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/next-hong-kong-handover-due-in-2017/) - The Hong Kong handover 15 years ago ushered in a new era for the city and for China.
- [2010](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/2010/) - A Tangled Web: Inside Macau Studio City's struggles (Macau Business, January 2010) Junket Controls: Singapore wants casinos to do it themselves on VIPs (Macau Business, January 2010) Clown and Out? High-wire talks try to save Cirque du Soleil in Macau (Macau Business, January 2010) Shooting for Success: Seven Luck plays Korean pop culture card (Macau
- [2009](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/2009/) - Singapore Swing: Lion City Gets Ready to Roar (Macau Business, January 2009) Downturn Raises Odds at Singapore Casinos (Asia Times, January 15, 2009) Holy War is Not the Answer (The Guardian, January 15, 2009) Yes, He Did (Asia Times, January 17, 2009) Buying What They're Selling – Review of India's Store Wars: Retail Revolution and
- [2008](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/2008/) - Macau Adds Up Gambling Debts (Asia Times, January 31, 2008) McCain: Straight to His Blind Spot (Asia Times, Campaign Outsider, January 31, 2008) Super Sunday Spills into Super Tuesday (Asia Times, Campaign Outsider, February 5, 2008) Macau Loses as Asia’s Las Vegas (Asia Times, February 13, 2008) Two Clean Sweeps But No Clear Winners (Asia
- [2007](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/2007/) - China Cracks Down on Rioters! News at 11 (Asia Times, March 22, 2007) Malaysia Puts Out the Unwelcome Mat (Asia Times, April 3, 2007) In 1997, We Knew the Big News in Advance (Asia Times, June 30, 2007) US-China Yuan Debate Needs New Currency (Asia Times, July 26, 2007) Lonely Planet Blog from Ubud Writers
- [2006](https://www.muhammadcohen.com/2006/) - Singapore’s Big Gamble (Macau Business, April 2006) Bay Watching: Singapore Special Report, Part 2 (Macau Business, May 2006) Check In, Check Up: Medical Tourism Takes Off in Thailand (Macau Business, July 2006) Second Bite: Singapore casino losers consider sticking around (Macau Business, July 2006) Unmatched Ambition: Melco tries its hand in Singapore (Macau Business, November
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