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.
In a filing released on Wednesday, it was announced that Jack Lam, a veteran junket investor of Macau, will no longer hold the position as the Jimei International Entertainment Group chairman.
The change was...
In the face of stiff lobbying from the gambling industry, federal legislators in the Philippines approved new rules earlier this week aimed at tightening anti-money laundering regulations for land-based casinos...
In the Commonwealth Of The Northern Mariana Islands, Imperial Pacific International Holdings Limited has reportedly been granted permission to open its long-awaited $500 million Imperial Pacific Resort And Hote...
The monetary authorities of Macau, China and Hong Kong attended a trilateral conference on Friday that was designed to increase cooperation in the fight against international money laundering.
According to a...
An online gambling ring which handled transactions worth an estimated US$62 million was the subject of a recent police crackdown in Vietnam's central Thanh Hoa province, reports local media.
According to dai...
Sales of lottery tickets in Mainland China have jumped by 9.6% in April 2017 when compared to the same period last year, new data from China’s Ministry of Finance reveals. According to the numbers posted this w...
In the Philippines, a local property services firm has reportedly called on the government to provide offshore gaming firms with “clear, consistent and reliable” support so that the industry can continue to gro...
Union Gaming Securities Asia has announced that a new satellite casino will be coming to Cotai within the Macau Roosevelt Hotel. The hotel is going to open soon and will reportedly offer casino gaming with a fo...
One of China's best-known table tennis players is reportedly being sued in a Hong Kong court for failing to fully pay off a gambling debt he ran up while at the Marina Bay Sands property in Singapore.
Accord...
Fourteen weeks after unveiling a plan to bring a multi-billion-dollar integrated casino resort to Osaka and the man behind Melco Resorts And Entertainment Limited has reportedly explained why he believes the po...
In Japan, many smaller cities have reportedly expressed criticism at official government guidelines published earlier this month that are set to require operators and municipalities to team up in order to submi...
An early morning raid on a gambling den located in Bangkok’s Bang Khen district has resulted in the arrest of 74 people and the seizure of approximately 450,000 baht (USD$12 984,02).
The Bangkok Post reports...
In Macau, suspected gambling-related crime during the first three months of 2017 reportedly climbed by some 15.2% year-on-year to 424 individual instances and was led by an 18% swell in alleged occurrences of u...
In the Philippines, local trading and shipping firm Udenna Corporation has reportedly raised approximately $80.36 million to help fund its plan to build a new integrated casino resort on the central island of M...
As part of a plan to transform the area around the cities of Hong Kong, Macau, and Guangzhou into one giant integrated economic zone, an official Chinese think-tank has reportedly proposed loosening existing bo...