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.
Legislators in the Philippines are looking to introduce a new bill aimed at imposing tighter regulations on money laundering activities in the country. The new bill targets the casino industry via the Anti-Mone...
Local outlet Macau Business Daily is reporting that Francis Lui Yiu Tung, vice chair of Galaxy Entertainment Group, has told Chinese language newspaper Macao Daily in an interview that the lingering downturn in...
Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd. seems to be set to finally ask permission to open VIP gaming at their previously mass market focused Studio City casino in Macau. Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources as the inform...
The first ever Global Busan Tourism Forum was held in Busan towards the end of June 2016 and one of the hot topics discussed was the possibility of developing a mega casino resort in Busan that would boost tour...
Although gross gaming revenue in Macau saw a year on year drop in the first half of 2016 to MOP107.79 billion, a decline of 11.4 percent from the corresponding period in 2015, the latest report by the governmen...
Having opened the world's largest casino at 10,500,000-square-feet (980,000 m2) with the Venetian Macao in 2007, Mark Brown is no stranger to thinking big and executing seemingly fantastic and unbelievable plan...
The 2016 Euro Football Championships has spurred a massive betting craze across Asia as thousands of football fans in China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand have joined illegal gambling groups to place wagers an...
In their voluntary monthly filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Saturday, Best Sunshine's parent company Imperial Pacific International Holdings Ltd released un-audited numbers showing the Best Sunshine Liv...
Data released Friday by Macau's casino regulator, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) show the gaming downturn entering its third year with a year on year gross gaming revenue (GGR) drop of 8....
Venetian Macau and MGM Macau have had their appeals denied which related to tourism taxes owed from 2011 and 2009 respectively. Galaxy Entertainment Group had previously exercised their last appeal on taxes owe...
Local television and radio broadcaster Teledifusão de Macau reports that the MGM Cotai casino resort, originally scheduled to open by the end of 2016, will not experience any serious delays according to an arti...
In a brief press release today, Wynn Macau, Limited announced that the new Wynn Palace casino resort will open in the Cotai area of Macau on August 22, 2016. In the statement to media Wynn Macau said, "The comp...
Bloomberry Resorts Corp. said in a filing the Philippine Stock Exchange last week that it's subsidiary Solaire Korea Co. Ltd is selling their 96.23 percent share in the company that owns Jeju Sun Hotel & C...
Although prospects for Macau's dog racing enthusiasts may not be bright, the Macau Jockey Club & Racing Complex (MJC) seems to be positioning for a rebirth of the horse racing industry in the former Portugu...
A forecast published in London yesterday by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) predicts that real Gross Domestic Product for Macau will continue to shrink this year, but at a much slower rate, while gains fo...