While Macau has been the world's biggest gambling revenue generator for a decade, there is no such thing as status quo or a new normal there. Multi-billion dollar resorts are opening with as few as 100 gaming tables and the licenses of all six concessionaires are set to expire between 2020 and 2022 with no clear guidance from the government as to what will happen next. World Casino News covers Macau with nearly 700 articles on the mecca to date.
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Vietnam has finally decided to let their citizens play at home and huge integrated resorts are being built there. Singapore and Malaysia are home to massive casino complexes and countries such as Thailand, Cambodia, and the Asian areas of Russia generate casino news on a regular basis. Follow it all on World Casino News.
The Sands China Limited subordinate of American casino giant, Las Vegas Sands Corporation, is likely to retain its position as the ‘largest operator’ in Macau’s mass-market gaming industry over the course of th...
After welcoming a record number of tourists over the most recent Chinese New Year period, Macau is reportedly now expecting to chalk up as much as a 20% rise year-on-year in visitations for next week’s four-day...
In the Philippines, local casino operator, Frontier Capital Group Limited, has reportedly announced that it is planning an ‘imminent’ re-opening of its shuttered Casablanca Casino after being able to settle an ...
In Japan, the city of Osaka reportedly launched its request-for-concept (RFC) application process earlier today as part of the procedure to eventually select the commercial partner to potentially operate its ho...
Asian junket operator, Suncity Group Holdings Limited, has reportedly announced the completion of a deal that has seen it pay approximately $91.5 million in order to acquire a controlling stake in Russian casin...
The first quarter numbers are in for Macau, with 2019 already resulting in a nice increase in gaming tax revenue. Macau has seen over MOP29.64 billion generated, which equals to $3.67 billion USD. The Financial...
One of the firms behind the City of Dreams Manila integrated casino resort has reportedly revealed that it is studying the possibility of opening a second such venue in the Philippines but has yet to identify a...
Japan held the latest edition of its quadrennial local elections on Sunday and the exercise reportedly resulted in pro-casino candidates doing well in the northern city of Tomakomai as well as in the southern c...
The most senior legislator in Macau has reportedly announced that there is no need for his fellow lawmakers to delay the launch of a new public tender designed to decide who will be allowed to operate casinos i...
In China, legislators have reportedly approved a plan that could see Hengqin Island transformed into a tourist-friendly zone complete with a range of innovative leisure and entertainment facilities.
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Asian casino operator, Genting Malaysia Berhad, reportedly ‘has the liquidity’ to complete the development of large projects in Las Vegas and Singapore but may jeopardize its future ‘deleveraging trajectory’ by...
In the Philippines, Bloomberry Resorts Corporation could reportedly begin work to bring a new integrated casino resort to the under-construction Ayala Malls Vertis North retail complex in the northern Manila su...
Top-rated developer, OneTouch, has launched the first-ever Andar Bahar mobile option in portrait mode. The game is one of the most popular in the card game category of India, with the option now available in a ...
A departure from the previous two months, Mainland China, experienced an 8.8 percent drop in aggregated lottery sales, which came in at CNY23.41 billion (US$3.49 billion) for February 2019, when compared with t...
The first event of the 2019 global tour of the SiGMA Roadshow has come to an end. The tour stopped in the Philippines with Manila playing host to the first leg of the networking event. On March 21st and 22nd, S...