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, electronic gaming machine distributor Asia Pioneer Entertainment Limited has reportedly announced that it is hoping to raise approximately $6.4 million by placing some 250 million new shares on the sm...
In Malaysia, Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has reportedly revealed that the government is considering whether to tighten the rules on illegal gambling due to a recent explosion in the use of mobile d...
In Taiwan, residents of the outlying island province of Kinmen reportedly voted overwhelmingly on Saturday against a proposal that would have legalized casino gambling.
According to a report from the Bloombe...
Cambodian land-based casino operator and iGaming technologies firm Asia Live Tech has premiered an innovative service for clients that are interested in opening and running their very own live table games onlin...
According to China’s Ministry of Finance, total sales from official lottery products in Mainland China during the month of September increased by 15.1 percent from the same time last year to approximately CNY36...
In the Philippines, Chinese businessman Jack Lam is reportedly facing the possibility of spending up to five years in prison after being charged by the nation’s Office of the Ombudsman with attempting to illega...
In Macau, Las Vegas Sands Corporation has reportedly announced that it intends to spend approximately $1.1 billion in order to re-brand its Sands Cotai Central integrated casino resort as The Londoner Macao.
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The Deltin Group, a subsidiary of India’s largest gaming company, Delta Corp Ltd (NSE: DELTACORP), will reportedly operate a casino at one of Marriott’s flagship hotels currently being built in Naxal, Kathmandu...
In Macau, local junket operator David Group has reportedly announced that it will be ceasing its ten-table VIP operation for the recently-opened casino inside The Macau Roosevelt hotel from next week.
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In Macau, the government has reportedly revealed that direct taxes from gaming for the first nine months of 2017 rose by 17.5% year-on-year to hit $8.54 billion and account for some 80.9% of all state revenues....
In May 2018, CoinGeek.com, sister site of CalvinAyre.com, will host the first CoinGeek.com bComm Conference. The focus of the Bitcoin conference will be what massive on-chain scaling contained on one public blo...
Under a new regulatory framework designed to improve anti-money laundering regulation in the Philippine casino sector, Philippine gamblers will now be required to show IDs before engaging in gambling while casi...
The largest shareholder in Crown Resorts Limited has reportedly played down the prospects that the Australian casino giant will be pushing for the right to operate an integrated casino resort in Japan due to co...
After issuing a temporary ban on the playing of online rummy in mid-June, the government for the southern Indian state of Telangana is now reportedly planning to introduce legislation that would make this prohi...
Malta-based online casino software developer, Betsoft Gaming Ltd, has entered into a partnership with new Asian-facing online casino operator HDFBET.
Per the terms of the partnership agreement, HDFBET, which...