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.
Casino operators such as Hard Rock International and the Las Vegas Sands are considering entering the Japanese gambling market due to its potential, but one gaming analyst says that the lawmakers of Japan may o...
In South Korea, a leading local brokerage has reportedly explained that it expects the opening of the first phase of the Paradise City integrated casino resort later this year to negatively impact the profits o...
In the Philippines, Tiger Resort Leisure And Entertainment Incorporated has reportedly premiered the Stadium automated multi-player electronic table games concept from innovator Interblock inside its new Okada ...
In Macau, the government has reportedly announced that it is considering transforming the Macau Yat Yuen Canidrome Club into a cultural, leisure, sports and education facility once the long-running greyhound ra...
In Macau, the government has reportedly revealed that it raked in $913.26 million in taxes from gambling last month, which was a 7.7% increase year-on-year, helped by a 3.1% rise to $2.4 billion in aggregated g...
In Macau, casino operator Macau Legend Development Limited has opened its new 223-room Legend Palace Hotel development in the city’s Fisherman’s Wharf district along wit a few gaming tables. The complete casino...
Laxmikant Parsekar, the Goa Chief Minister, has decided that he will not make a decision about whether the sixth offshore casino in the country will be renewed. Parsekar will be leaving the decision up to the n...
After announcing earlier this month that the opening of its new Tiger Palace Resort Bhairahawa in Nepal had been delayed, Asian casino operator Silver Heritage Group has now been granted an immediate suspension...
New problem gambling legislation has been proposed in Japan via Nippon Ishin no Kai, a national political party based in Osaka. The goal of the new bill is to set up measures to deal with problem gambling in th...
Asian casino operator Donaco International Limited has released its financial results for the six months to the end of December showing that its half-year gross revenues had decreased by over 14% year-on-year t...
The Philippines publicly listed company, Premium Leisure Corp, which owns half of the casino arm of the City of Dreams Manila resort, has been taken over by the Manila-based SM Investments Corporation holding c...
A day after Melco Crown Entertainment Limited unveiled its proposed plans for a casino in the city of Osaka and Asian gambling rival Genting Singapore has reportedly declared that it has “sufficient financial r...
In Macau, the government has reportedly rejected allegations that it intends to bow to pressure from casino operators and keep smoker-friendly lounges while revealing that it has yet to come to a final decision...
Asian casino operator Melco Crown Entertainment Limited has officially joined the race for one of the integrated casino resort licenses set to be put up for grabs in Japan next year after unveiling two potentia...
With regulation of what industry analysts say could become the second biggest casino market in the world expected to be ironed out in law by December, Hard Rock Cafe International, Inc. is eyeing a 60 percent s...