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.
Follow this section to learn of breaking developments in Japan, as the final regulations will determine whether the island country will become the next Macau or simply another nation with gambling. Follow along as the titans battle it out for a position in the Land of the Rising Sun.
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.
In Macau, a prominent government official has reportedly declared that she is expecting the number of tourists visiting the former Portuguese enclave over the course of the next seven days to rise by up to 9% y...
Stephen Hand, a pioneer in the casino industry has died at the age of 61. Hand introduced the World Casino Directory to G2E in Las Vegas in 2002, after teaching himself the ropes and building the site for about...
In the Philippines, the head of the nation’s gaming regulator has reportedly implored President Rodrigo Duterte (pictured below), to lift his ban on the building of any new privately-financed casinos so that th...
In Japan, the governments for a trio of local areas have reportedly revealed that they will be lodging formal bids in hopes of securing one of the three casino licenses being made available following last year’...
In China, last year reportedly saw aggregated lottery product sales increase by some 19.9% when compared with the previous twelve-month period to reach approximately ¥511.47 billion ($75.94 billion).
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Las Vegas Sands Corporation has released its unaudited financial results for 2018 showing that it experienced a 7.8% increase year-on-year in net revenues to $13.729 billion alongside an associated 8% rise in c...
Some of the top stakeholders in Macau casino operator SJM Holdings Limited and its Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau SA (STDM) parent have reportedly inked an accord designed help clarify the long-term ...
After initiating a $1.75 billion legal action against the newly-purchased Twenty-First Century Fox Incorporated subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company in November, Asian casino operator, Genting Malaysia Berhad,...
In Macau, a prominent government official has reportedly declared that she is expecting the number of tourists visiting the former Portuguese enclave over the course of 2019 to increase by up to 6% year-on-year...
In the Philippines, a steady stream of foreign high-rollers reportedly helped to push aggregated gross gaming revenues for 2018 up by around 13% year-on-year to hit an all-time high of approximately $3.79 billi...
Investors in Macau’s casino industry have reportedly been warned to expect gaming revenues to contract by low single digits this year due to the impacts of a cooling Chinese economy alongside that nation’s ongo...
In Malaysia, a High Court Judge reportedly made history on Friday by ordering local gambler, Paul Poh Yang Hong, to pay off the entirety of a debt he allegedly ran up while playing at a casino owned by Wynn Mac...
Developer, owner and operator of casino gaming and entertainment casino resort facilities in Asia, Melco Resorts and Entertainment Limited, (NASDAQ: MLCO), was, at the beginning of January, reportedly granted s...
The firm that once controlled Macau’s former Grand Waldo Casino has reportedly announced the formation of a partnership that it hopes will be granted one of the three integrated casino resort licenses being mad...
Integrated resort developer and operator in Macau, Sands China Ltd (1928:Hong Kong), has reportedly paid all of its eligible employees a discretionary bonus, the equivalent to a month's wages, according to the ...