ANDREW SCOTT MARKETING AND ONLINE GAMING HACKING THREATS : ‘ XI TARGETS COMPETITION IS HEATING UP GROWING ’ TECH ELITES With the gaming downturn and more As online gaming attracts countless FOR COMMUNIST supply, marketing and competition is gamblers worldwide, businesses PARTY heating up, which might benefit the operating these services have also OUTREACH PUSH media industry been subject to further hacking threats P2 MDT INTERVIEW P3 P10 FRI.22 May 2015 T. 23º/ 26º C H. 80/ 98% Blackberry email service powered by CTM MOP 5.00 2318 N.º HKD 7.50 FOUNDER & PUBLISHER Kowie Geldenhuys EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Paulo Coutinho “ THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’ ” WORLD BRIEFS ForUM MACAU WIKIPEDIA CHINA A Beijing court yesterday sentenced two young men to up to five months in jail for dangerous driving after they crashed a Equatorial Guinea wants Lamborghini and a Ferrari in a late-night race through Beijing. The Chaoyang District Court found Tang BACKPAGE Wentian, 21, and Yu Muchun, to join, China blesses 20, guilty of dangerously operating motor vehicles, a court statement said. Neither would appeal the verdicts, which sentenced Tang to five months in jail and Yu to four, the court said. CHINA At least 15 people have been killed and thousands more forced from their homes by flooding in southern and central China and more rain has been forecast for coming days, officials said yesterday. Authorities said that Jiangxi province has been hardest hit, with eight people killed and 65,000 displaced. Just to the south, the Guangxi region suffered five deaths with six other people listed as missing. INDONESIAN authorities blew up and sank 41 foreign fishing vessels Wednesday as a warning against poaching in the country’s waters. The boats, seized from Chinese, Malaysian, Philippine, Thai and Vietnamese fishermen, were blown up on National Awakening Day, which commemorates the first political movement toward Indonesia’s independence. JAPAN Vying to keep pace with China’s rising influence and economic clout, Japan LAW plans to provide USD110 billion to help develop roads, ports and other infrastructure Extradition treaty between in Asia in the next five years, Prime Minister Shinzo P5 Abe said yesterday. Abe SARs to be signed this year announced the commitment, which is on a par with the $100 billion China has set for its newly created Asian CRIME Infrastructure Investment Bank, at a conference in Tokyo. Unlawful detention cases P6 More on backpage nearly double in Q1 INSIDE 22.05.2015 fri th Anniversary 2 MACAU 澳聞 Catarina Pinto HE World Gaming TGroup, which publishes World Gaming Magazine (WGM), has recently acqui- red Must Read Publications, the publisher of Inside Asian Gaming magazine. In an in- terview with The Times, An- drew Scott, CEO of World Gaming Group, shared his insights on Macau’s gaming industry and made assuran- ces that IAG will remain as it is. Macau Daily Times (MDT) – World Gaming Group has acquired In- side Asian Gaming. What does this mean for the group and IAG? Andrew Scott (AS) – The publication will absolute- ly remain as it is. It’s a very successful publication. Ka- reem Jalal, who will remain as IAG’s editor, has done an excellent job. He founded it in 2005 and over the last ten years it has grown to be the must-read industry, B2B publication. Everybody has heard of Inside Asian Ga- ming, and he’s done a great job with it. So we will leave it essentially as it is. What we might do is add to it, using the wider resources of our Q&A WITh AnDreW SCoTT, Ceo oF WorlD GAMInG GroUP merged company to allow Inside Asian Gaming to do things that they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to ‘Marketing and do. MDT – There’s a growing number of pu- competition is heating up’ blications in Macau, but these are usually small operations. What are the AS - Well, short-term is pply was planned when times MDT - Some have sug- main challenges they’re very difficult to say, nobody were booming. gested that it might not facing? We have some really knows. In the longer- We have some challenging ti- be such a great idea when AS - Well, making a profit term I think Macau is still mes ahead in terms of infras- gaming revenue is down. from advertising is very dif- challenging safe and Macau will still be tructure and labor; we don’t AS - Well, they’ve talked ficult in Macau, because up the predominant gaming in- have enough skilled labor. about the limit being 21 until now the major custo- times ahead dustry in Asia. People are Macau is a difficult place to million mainland Chine- mers, the integrated resorts in terms of very quick to predict won- come to. You can come from se visitors. I actually think and their associated busines- derful times when things are Hong Kong – you’ve got the that we’re not going to hit ses, haven’t had any problem infrastructure going well, but they’re also ferry ride – but that’s not sim- the limit that they propose. getting business. So sure very quick to panic when ti- ple. Or you can come through They’ve also said that the they would advertise here and labor mes are a little harder. Peo- the Gongbei Border Gate, but limit is just until the infras- but they didn’t feel that there ple tend to overreact. that border can be a pretty tructure can handle more. was a pressing need for them hellish place sometimes. And that’s probably not a bad to do so. become easier for us. And I MDT - Are we overreac- thing. We don’t want 25 or Now with the downturn in think IAG is a must-adver- ting? MDT – What are your 30 million Chinese visitors the market and the issues tise magazine if you’re a se- AS - Yes, I would say we are. thoughts on the proposed coming here and having a of more supply coming on rious supplier to the gaming I think in the long term things visitor cap? horrible experience. We need board, marketing and com- industry. will be fine. But in the short AS - I think it’s a great idea, to provide them with an ex- petition is heating up in Ma- and medium term, there will because it will allow people to cellent tourism experience. cau. We at the WGM, we’ve MDT - Macau’s ga- be some really challenging ti- get through the Gongbei bor- We need easier border cros- always liked to be the ones ming industry is facing mes ahead of us. We’ve got a der gate much quicker. Any- sing; good taxi services; and that commented on the dif- new challenges with ga- lot of supply coming on the thing that brings customers good flights. If we want to di- ferent gaming offerings. Our ming revenue declining. market – there are currently to Macau quicker, easier and versify our economy we need role has now been firmly es- What’s your perspective about eight new properties more conveniently is a good to make it an easy experience tablished and I think it will on the industry’s future? about to open – and that su- thing. for people to visit Macau. 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SERVICE (DDoS) attacks are S online gaming attracts and when the service is disrup- “In 2014 we saw more volume- not only carried out against on- Acountless gamblers across ted they will move on to the next tric attacks, with attackers trying line gaming businesses but are the world, businesses operating company or game.” to knock people offline by satura- also used to disrupt online ser- these services have also been Mr Teo recalled that DDoS atta- ting their access to the internet,” vices during particular political- subject to further hacking threa- cks not only interfere with busi- Mr Anstee told the BBC last Ja- ly-sensitive events, such as the ts, namely distributed denial-of- nesses revenue but have also had nuary.