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.
Immigration officials in the Philippines arrested more than 1,000 individuals on Friday, all of which were undocumented Chinese nationals, after a raid took place in Clark, Pampanga at a recreational facility. ...
After last week facing accusations that its Best Sunshine Live casino in the Commonwealth Of The Northern Mariana Islands had become a “safe haven” for illicit Chinese money, Imperial Pacific International Hold...
After last month revealing that its Tigre De Cristal casino resort had generated gaming taxes of over $8 million during its first year of operation, operator G1 Entertainment has now reportedly declared that it...
In Macau, suspected gambling-related crime has reportedly climbed by some 16% year-on-year during the first nine months of 2016 to 1,298 individual instances led by a 45% swell in alleged cases of loan-sharking...
The three Australian employees of Crown Resorts Limited detained by Chinese police last month before being formally arrested earlier this week have now reportedly been allowed to meet with officials from their ...
Yesterday saw Macau VIP junket firm Tak Chun Group officially open an operation inside the Studio City Casino Macau featuring a range of nine gaming tables spread across four rooms encompassing some 10,760 sq f...
In the Philippines, online games developer PhilWeb Corporation will reportedly soon be given permission to re-open 131 e-Games-branded gaming parlors across the nation following a re-think by the Philippine Amu...
The Saipan Tribune reported yesterday that Commonwealth Casino Commission executive director Edward Deleon Guerrero has confirmed that Best Sunshine Live casino in Saipan is operating in compliance with U.S. Ba...
SJM Holdings Ltd. has reopened Casino Taipa at the Regency Art Hotel Macau, in Taipa after eight years of dormancy.
The property is located at 2 Estrasa Almirante Marques near the Macau - Taipa Bridge and th...
The 18 employees of Crown Resorts Limited arrested in China last month have now been officially charged with “gambling crimes” and most of the group is now facing up to six months in custody before their cases ...
Billionaire Kazuo Okada, the chairman of Japanese based Universal Entertainment, had filed a case against the Japanese division of Thomson Reuters Corp and three journalists on defamation charges back in Decemb...
The recently concluded Macau Gaming Show 2016 brought together some of the key junket operators and executives in the industry who shared their future plans and addressed market concerns. The most important ann...
The government for Vietnam is soon expected to publish long-awaited draft legislation containing provisions for those wanting open an integrated casino resort in the country although prospective operators could...
This week brought another break for Russian sport betting providers, as the Russian government decided to reduce the size of mandatory taxes that bookmakers have to pay to support the sport bodies in the countr...
NagaCorp operates the NagaWorld casino in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and has enjoyed enormous success over the past few years as it is the biggest casino in Cambodia and benefits from the exclusive license it has to ...