Genting «can offer the Macau government whatever they expressly said they wanted,» versus the incumbents who have predominantly focused on Chinese VIPs, said Samuel Yin Shao Yang, an analyst at Maybank.

It means that Putin’s troops are now losing ground in three out of the four Ukrainian regions he annexed last week – declaring that any attack on them would be considered an attack on Russia and may trigger a nuclear response.

There’s a ubiquitous slogan in NFT circles: Bear markets are for building. When the economy goes back up and crypto revives, the premise goes, the companies building legitimate products now are going to see the benefit. 

It would cause «far too much disruption» if any of the six operators were replaced, said Terry Ng, an analyst at Daiwa in Hong Kong, although other industry watchers note the incumbents have left themselves vulnerable to an operator like Genting which lost out on a Macau licence in 2002.

It pledged to take «additional necessary and appropriate action» so the NICC «can be satisfied The Star Sydney has taken sufficient steps, and has bound itself to take further steps, so that it may continue to hold its licence».

«Macau has been told over and over again to focus less on Chinese VIPs and more on non-gaming but they pretty much paid lip service to that idea. So now… they have to really make a hard divert to that philosophy,» Yin said.

Kyiv’s troops are attacking down the west bank of the Dnipro River and have taken the town of  Zolota Balka, it was reported Monday, amid claims from pro-Kremlin sources that troops had retreated as far as Dudchany, around 15 miles further south.

Genting´s strong non-gaming track record, including operating two of the largest theme parks in southeast Asia, would be a big draw for Beijing which has been urging Macau to diversify away from gambling and attract foreign tourists.

‘We extend our deepest condolences to the entire Chheda family. Park Tudor counselors are available to assist any members of our community who may require support; please keep the Chheda family in your thoughts and prayers.’ 

The team has amassed millions in royalties, illustrating the potential upside of crowdfunding via NFT sales. But there is a downside. The NFT market runs almost entirely on speculation and hype. As Strauss put it to me, there’s a segment of the crypto and NFT market that looks an awful lot like gambling addiction. That means people who buy NFTs can often be more interested in announcements that drum up hype than they are in legitimate brand building. 

«The court has given a strong signal to the international community that evictions and human rights abuses against indigenous peoples should be tolerated if they are done in the name of protecting nature,» Longo said.

The Star Entertainment Group (TSEG) says it has a plan for «a multi-year transformation of the governance, accountability and capabilities, culture and risk, and compliance management practices of the organisation».

That would likely force the war to a stalemate from which Putin would hope to secure a ceasefire deal, allowing him to rebuild his armed forces and attack again – as he did after annexing Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. 

Ukraine then launched two counter-attacks in Kherson and Kharkiv in August, the first of which is making slow but steady progress and the second of which achieved a major breakthrough that has placed Russia on the back foot.

But the big surprise from NFT.NYC was how unaffected everyone seemed to be by the brutal market. Everyone I spoke to — even the guy down $100,000 — was enthusiastic about the industry’s future. A few were blue about their short-term pain, but everyone was resolute that things would thrive long term. 

Ukraine’s western backers have also vowed never to respect the land-grab – the largest in Europe since the Second World War – and say there will be no let-up in weapons supplies, poker pkv despite Putin’s threats to go nuclear.

«A lot of people are very concerned about ‘we need to get the mainstream into [NFTs],'» Strauss said to me in a phone interview. «I’ve never seen the embrace of the mainstream improve a cultural trend. I’ve only seen it kill it.»

If one of the incumbents lost their license it’s likely to send tremors throughout Macau´s gambling industry as the companies have collectively invested more than $50 billion in the past two decades, are tied closely to the economic fortunes of the former Portuguese colony and employ tens of thousands of people.

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Rights groups and the Maasai community say the villages are outside the park’s boundaries, and that villagers were the victims of a violent police crackdown aimed at forcing them off their traditional lands to make way for trophy hunting by tourists and conservation.