Mayer Brown, on behalf of its gaming clients, successfully resisted an application for specific discovery in K&L Gates v. Navin Kumar Aggarwal and Others [2019] HKCFI 702 ("Decision").

The Macau Special Administrative Region ("Macau") is shaking up its advertising rules, launching a 30-day public consultation on 4 July 2025 to update a law that's been largely unchanged since 1989.

This weekly bulletin examines major developments across Asia's gaming sector, from Hong Kong Jockey Club's record-breaking HK$331.7 billion turnover and Pansy Ho's succession insights, to Macau casino operators leveraging luxury retail growth and South Korea's regulatory restructuring to combat illegal online gambling. The analysis explores how integrated resorts are diversifying revenue streams while governments intensify enforcement against offshore platforms.

Hong Kong phases out its Electronic Shroff Card at betting branches while South Korea blocks Polymarket as illegal gambling and tightens regulation of claw machines. Vietnamese-based illegal gambling operations face prosecution as Asian jurisdictions intensify enforcement across digital and physical gaming platforms.

Since the liberation of Macau's gaming industry around 20 years ago, gaming concessionaires – namely six operators ...

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