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.
A new sponsorship agreement has been signed between the Asian Poker Tour and cryptocurrency-based iPoker room CoinPoker. With the agreement, CoinPoker will be providing online satellite packages to players loca...
Macau casino giant SJM Holdings Limited has announced that 96-year-old Stanley Ho Hung Sun (pictured) will be stepping down as its Chairman and Executive Director following the conclusion of its next annual gen...
Former chief operating officer (COO) for Melco Resorts and Entertainment Ltd (Nasdaq:MPEL), Ted Chan Ying Tat, has been hired by market rival Galaxy Entertainment Group (GEG) Ltd (SEHK: 00027) as COO of the Mac...
Japanese pachinko giant Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. recently announced that in a move demonstrating the future direction of the firm it will be changing its logo this August.
The Tokyo-based pachinko machine an...
In Macau, casino operator Wynn Resorts Limited has reportedly confirmed that its former Chief Executive Officer, Steve Wynn, does not have any ownership in the many valuable works of art displayed at its Wynn P...
Hong Kong-based Silver Heritage Group Ltd (ASX:SVH), which operates and manages, through wholly or majority-owned subsidiaries, Asian casinos and gaming assets in Vietnam, Nepal and Laos, reportedly said that i...
Macau’s six casino operators reportedly received petitions on Monday from gaming activist group, Professional for Gaming of New Macau, requesting they either match or improve on a maternity, paternity benefits ...
In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte (pictured) has reportedly axed the $500 million plan from Galaxy Entertainment Group Limited that would have seen the Hong Kong-listed firm construct a 1,000-room i...
Having approved a revised fee structure effective April 1 subjecting Goa’s casino industry to levies for the financial year 2018-19, which are as much as 4.5 times greater than the hikes casinos dealt with the ...
In Macau, visitorship over the Easter holiday was down 4.7 percent compared with the same time last year, with the former Portuguese territory seeing a total of 402,846 for the long weekend.
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The Asian Poker Tour hosted the APT Philippines Championships 2018 from March to April at the Resorts World Manila with the much-anticipated APT Championship Event taking place during the series, from March 28 ...
Asian casino giant Melco Resorts and Entertainment Limited has rewarded Lawrence Ho Yau Lung (pictured) for his successful leadership by granting the billionaire businessman a further 531,381 of its restricted ...
From May 1 this year, Macau casino operator Wynn Macau Ltd (1128:Hong Kong) will put into effect an improved package of maternity and paternity benefits which will be applicable to eligible employees of the fir...
An agreement has been reached in Japan between the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and allied Komeito party for a flat integrated resort casino (IR) tax rate and to limit the number of IRs in the country ...
The month of March was a successful one in Macau as casinos were able to see gains of 22% in gambling revenues. The demand for gambling remains static in the former Portuguese colony's only legal casino hub, wi...