World Casino News covers breaking news from around the globe. In this section we cover casino news. This is our main category which contains about 75% of all articles so you may see the same articles also appear in sub-categories or additional sections if more than one subject is prominent in the story.
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The remote Wa State in Myanmar, which shares 82 miles (133 km) of frontier with China, once offered Chinese VIPs an out of the way place to gamble large, and still may. Reuters reports that casinos, where the r...
The New Year’s first Asia Poker Tour (APT) tournament saw Japan’s Takumi Samejima (pictured) bring home US$38,020 after winning the tourney’s main event, according to a press release from the tournament organiz...
On Thursday, the State of Florida appeal a court ruling from November of 2016 by a United States District Judge that gave the Seminole Tribe exclusive rights to blackjack until 2030. The filing of the appeal is...
In September of 2016, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court were given a 120 time frame in which to come up with a solution for the state tax levy on slot machines. Casinos of the state were paying $10 million or 2% o...
Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation's (OLG) Shorelines Slots at Kawartha Downs recently remitted its third-quarter payment of slightly more than $820,000 in gaming revenue to Cavan Monaghan Township.
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For some time now, the Coquille Indian Tribe has been working to create a gaming venue in the Medford area on property located at Highway 99 in Oregon. The tribe announced on Friday that the land is now qualifi...
In the United States, global financial services firm Western Union has reportedly agreed to pay a fine of $586 million after admitting that it violated federal anti-money laundering laws by allowing its agents ...
After a December study found that the opening of the Plainridge Park Casino had not led to an increase in crime, a similar year-long investigation has now reportedly concluded that the Massachusetts venue has a...
Sports lottery and land-based casino operator Success Universe Group Limited has issued a profit warning to investors advising that its consolidated loss for 2016 could have increased by as much as three-fold y...
This February, the Seminole Casino Hotel Immokalee will be hosting a special poker tournament festival. The second annual Seminole Immokalee Poker Challenge will take place at the casino as part of the Seminole...
The Vietnam government published a long-awaited decree today (Friday 1-20-2017) confirming a three-year pilot program and setting out rules for citizens and casinos to participate in the trial scheme. Currently...
According to local business and other reports, Rivers Casino is getting ready to build a $35 million hotel on the Ohio River property in Pittsburgh, Pa. As planned, the hotel will have 214 rooms, according to a...
In Rhode Island, the plan from casino operator Twin River Management Group Incorporated to build a new full-scale facility in the town of Tiverton using the transferred license for its Newport Grand Casino slot...
Mississippi Gaming Commission Executive Director Allen Godfrey reported this week that developers who tried to see a casino located in Diamondhead off the Bay of St. Louis and the South Beach Casino in Biloxi y...
American casino giant Las Vegas Sands Corporation has reportedly agreed to pay a criminal penalty of $6.96 million in order to end the long-running probe by the United States Department Of Justice into whether ...