Sixty 24-hour licences have been granted and of those 14 are going to pubs and clubs. In Cardiff, only a casino has been granted a 24-hour licence while in Wrexham another has gone to a nightclub.
In Swansea and Newport, no 24-hour applications have been successful while four pubs and clubs in Carmarthenshire have been given permission to offer alcohol all day long.
Ministers fear more drink-related disorder and other problems
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Two of them - the Spread Eagle and the Metro Club - are in the same street in Carmarthen but businesses say they are relaxed about the situation.
"There should not be a problem," said shopkeeper David Taylor. "I have got a security system and shutters which will hopefully take care of that."
In all, results sent in by most of the authorities indicate that about a third of all the pubs, clubs and shops in Wales and England licensed to sell alcohol have been granted extensions to their opening hours.
According to the BBC research, around one-third of all the pubs, clubs and shops in England and Wales licensed to sell alcohol are to get longer opening hours.
Licensing Minister James Purnell said the new laws would be coupled with the "toughest ever crackdown on alcohol fuelled violence".
Anti-social behaviour
A rise in the number of arrests could be a measure of the success of powers in the Licensing Act, he said.
But Llandudno landlord Marcus Farrington, who wants to stay open for an hour later each night, said the government's vision of a continental café culture was way off the mark.
"The reality of it in many city centres on weekends is that its not like that," said Mr Farrington.
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