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SOUTH AMERICA NEWS 01: MEXICO Alfonso Pérez Lizuar has broached the possibility of replacing shuttered casinos with brand new facilities - 25 in total –G3Newswire pg 08
02: PARAGUAY The tender process for casinos and sports- betting licences in Paraguay is due to be launched this year –G3Newswire pg 10
03: PANAMA Confusion has broken out in Panama as the implementation of a new tax regime for casino operators causes chaos –G3Newswire pg 12
NORTH AMERICA NEWS 07: CONNECTICUT KGM, the exclusive US manufacturer and distributor of Alfastreet games, has installed its first stations in Connecticut –G3Newswire pg 24
08: BAHAMAS Baha Mar, the $3.5bn global gaming destination resort in Nassau, has filed for bankruptcy to ensure it does finally open –G3Newswire pg 25
09: JAMAICA The first two casino resorts have been confirmed by Jamaica’s Finance Minister, with Celebration and Harmony green lit –G3Newswire pg 26
EMEA NEWS 04: SPAIN The departure of Veremonte from Spain’s BCN World won’t affect the project says the Catalan Government’s Damia Calvet –G3Newswire p g 14
05: GREECE The rollout of Greek operator OPAP’s first wave of VLTs has been delayed following stipulations from the Gaming Commission –G3Newswire pg 16
06: BELGIUM Evolution Gaming has launched its new live gaming studio with multiple operators in Belgium at the historic Casino de Spa –G3Newswire pg 18
ASIA & OCEANIA NEWS 10: SOUTH KOREA Mohegan Sun has confirmed the name of its resort casino to open at Incheon International Airport in South Korea –G3Newswire pg 28
10: SOUTH KOREA Malaysia’s Genting Group is targeting the South Korean port of Busan in a bid to develop a large destination casino resort –G3Newswire pg 30
11: RUSSIA Cambodian-based operator NagaCorp has started construction work on its casino resort in Russia’s Far East –G3Newswire pg 32
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MALAYSIA RESORTS WORLD GENTING REVAMP Malaysia’s only casino operator, Genting, is now one and a half years into a huge RM5bn (€1.2bn) renovation project –Insight pg 33
A CLEAN SWEEP ACROSS BELGIUM DRGT has complete systems market domination in the Belgium casinos sector with 9 out of 9 Belgian casinos connected –Insight pg 22
CAPTURING THE ACTION G3 spent the day at Leavesden Studios as Playtech used state-of-the-art motion-capture on the same stages that filmed James Bond –Report pg 48
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