COMPANIES planning to construct a $500-million integrated casino resort in Boracay may have to build it elsewhere as the provisional gaming license granted by the government for them to operate on the island was void, Malacañang said on Thursday.

"To operate in Boracay, yes," Palace spokesman Harry Roque told reporters in a text message, when asked if the provisional license granted to a Macau-based gaming firm was "void from the start." This was in light of the President's pronouncement that no casino resort would be put up in Boracay, amid the six-month closure of the popular island beginning on April 26.

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