World Casino News covers Macau. The world's richest gambling center generates important news on a daily basis and we give it due coverage. We let you know when the moguls who compete for empire there make a move and we follow their finances through boom times and declines as the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DJIC) reshapes the mecca from strictly a gambling center into a family playground for the world with mandated integrated resort amenities.
We let you know about casino project updates, openings, and closings as well as economy and finance, top brass career changes, and licensing issues to name a few of the topics covered. World Casino News works in harmony with the World Casino Directory so the Macau information you find there is always up to date and accurate. The directory profiles every casino in Macau from the baccarat tables to the hotels and amenities right down to the price range of dining. Our readers can explore the former Portuguese enclave from the comfort of their homes, or plan a trip and book their rooms.
The government of Macau has announced that it will hold meetings with the six companies licensed to operate casino gambling in the enclave following last weekend’s arrest and detention of 18 employees of Austra...
After seeing 18 of its representatives arrested in China over the weekend, Australian casino operator Crown Resorts Limited has now reportedly confirmed previous speculation that it intends to offload some more...
Internationally-renowned fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has announced that he is partnering with SJM Holdings Limited to open a 270-room branded hotel inside the Macau casino operator’s coming Grand Lisboa Pal...
As part of the fifth annual Global Tourism Economy Forum, tourism authorities in Macau have laid out plans designed to see the number of international visitors to the former Portuguese enclave increase to betwe...
Led by the mass-market segment and despite a slight drop in baccarat takings, casinos in Macau have recorded a 1.2% increase year-on-year in overall third-quarter revenues to $6.9 billion.
According to a rep...
Authorities in China have arrested 18 Crown Resort employees and are questioning them in regards to their involvement in illegal gambling related activities. Gambling is banned in Mainland China with the except...
In 2014, it was reported that a representative of the Kimren Group, Huang Shan, was believed to have been stealing from the junket operator. The Kimiren Group operated in Macau with VIP gaming rooms located in ...
Macau’s casino industry went through its biggest slump after Chinese President Xi Jinping launched an anti-corruption crackdown in early 2014 which brought about the collapse of Macau’s VIP gaming market and re...
A deal has been reached between Hong Kong-based Melco International Development Ltd, (HKG:0200), whose chairman is billionaire gaming mogul Lawrence Ho, and Shun Tak Holdings Limited ("The Group") (HKSE 242) th...
Golden Week holiday saw visits from the Chinese mainland to Macau increased to about 970,000 from October 1 through 7 with a total visitor count of about 1.15 million. Chinese visits were up 6.9 percent year on...
After recording two months of year-on-year growth following 26 months of consecutive declines, combined casino gross gaming revenues in Macau are beginning to show sustained performance in October thanks to an ...
Hong Kong-listed casino operator Galaxy Entertainment Group has revealed that its Galaxy Macau Casino Resort has reported better than expected customer numbers and expenditure over the first three days of the G...
After announcing last month that it had closed its high-roller operations at the Sands Cotai Central, the StarWorld Casino And Hotel Resort and the Galaxy Macau Casino, VIP junket operator Iao Kun Group Holding...
Since opening on August 22, the new $4.2 billion Wynn Palace Cotai resort casino from Wynn Resorts Limited has reportedly experienced a “slow ramp-up” of its mass-market gaming operations.
According to Monda...
September saw casinos in Macau post a better-than-expected 7.4% increase year-on-year in combined monthly gross gaming revenues due in part to the VIP segment likely reporting its first rise in takings in some ...