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 Singapore, a voucher system that sees mainland Chinese gamblers at the Marina Bay Sands permitted to use their China UnionPay bank cards to purchase casino chips has reportedly upset officials in Beijing.
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The Hotel Ramada of India would like to be able to offer organized poker events at their establishment. To do this, the hotel would have to be given approval since there is a ban in place. Officials of the hote...
The government of Macau has reportedly revealed that it raked in $9.11 billion from gambling taxes over the first eleven months of 2016 with the amount accounting for some 77.8% of all revenues.
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Yesterday, the Okada Manila gaming resort of the Philippines announced that casino operations would officially launch at 7pm on December 30th. This announcement comes just days after the Philippine Amusement an...
Macau’s effort to reinvent itself by premiering more family-friendly attractions is reportedly set to pay off next year as the former Portuguese enclave is expected to see a huge surge in tourists and mass-mark...
The man behind the soon to open US$2.4 billion Okada Manila, Japanese pachinko tycoon Kazuo Okada, is looking to expand beyond Pagcor's Entertainment City in the Philippines.
In an interview on ABS-CBN telev...
In Macau, industry experts have reportedly predicted that aggregated gross gaming revenues for December are on track to post a year-on-year increase of between 4% and 6% and bring the monthly tally to around $2...
The Russian state-owned news agency TASS is reporting that the new Krasnaya Polyana gambling zone in Sochi will attract the attention of tourists and help drive the economy of the area during the mountain clust...
In Macau, police have arrested 15 people on suspicion of activities associated with a loan-sharking syndicate that reportedly could have earned up to $1.28 million from as many as 40 victims.
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The Macau Association Of Gaming And Entertainment Promoters has reportedly established a central database that is capable of tracking the credit issued by local junket operators to individual players.
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Universal Entertainment Inc., (6425:Tokyo) was granted a provisional license for their Okada Manila casino resort on December 16 with an effective date of December 21, according to a report filed with the Tokyo...
PhilWeb Corp., the software provider to 268 eGames internet cafes in the Philippines, filed a report with the stock exchange there, published today noting that the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (Pagcor) ...
During a recent meeting with local authorities in Quang Ninh province, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc announced that Vietnamese citizens will be permitted to gamble at two casino resorts on a two-year trial ba...
Monday in Japan saw a decade-old struggle end with the "Act Promoting Implementation of Specified Integrated Resort Areas" taking effect on December 26, 2016. Casinos can now become legal in the land of the ris...
Yesterday, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) walked back a statement from the country's president that indicated all online gaming operators would be put out of business with no exceptions. And...