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.
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...
Officials in the Philippines have reportedly dropped a perjury case that had been brought against the former Chairman of Japanese pachinko, slot and arcade games manufacturer Universal Entertainment Corporation...
Australian gaming machine innovator, Aristocrat Leisure Limited, has reportedly announced the establishment of a new limited liability enterprise that is to be tasked with handling all of its business in Macau....
Retail and online sportsbetting products and services supplier, Sports Information Services (SIS) Limited has announced the signing of an agreement that is to see it continue distributing live data and pictures...
In Macau, officials are reportedly set to study the possibility of introducing a tax on travelers entering the city in order to raise additional revenues for the purposes of further developing its tourist-relat...
American casino operator MGM Resorts International has reportedly inked deal that is to see it partner with local financial services firm Orix Corporation in hopes of bringing an integrated casino resort to the...
In Macau, the boss for MGM Resorts International has reportedly announced that his firm’s MGM Cotai integrated casino resort has just opened a block of high-end Mansion-branded villas in an attempt to further d...
In Macau, electronic gaming machine distributor, Asia Pioneer Entertainment Limited has announced that 2018 saw its annual profit swell by some 360.8% year-on-year to reach just over $2.63 million thanks to an ...