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.
After earlier announcing that it would not be renewing the license of online games developer PhilWeb Corporation, the Philippine gaming regulator is now reportedly taking aim at the electronic bingo sector.
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Crown Resorts announced in June 2015 that it planned to break up its casino empire by separating its international business from its domestic operations and began discussions with the Australian government and ...
The coming $4.2 billion Wynn Palace Cotai development from operator Wynn Resorts Limited is set to open its doors on Monday featuring VIP rooms allocated to a trio of prominent junket operators including Suncit...
Despite the Government of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) authorizing 100 fewer gaming tables than it granted two rival gaming operators last year, Wynn Macau Ltd. chief executive officer Steve W...
Foreign tourist groups have been left confused after Chinese officials instituted a temporary freeze on the issuance of six-day visas to visit the mainland through Macau and Hong Kong.
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The majority shareholder of Philippine online games developer PhilWeb Corporation has offered to donate most of his stake to the nation’s gaming regulator in an effort to save the firm and safeguard the jobs of...
Hopes of salvaging the future of Philippine "online" games developer PhilWeb Corporation seem to be at an end after the nation’s regulator revealed that it was not likely to reconsider an earlier decision not t...
American casino operator MGM Resorts International has spent around $325 million in order to acquire an additional 5% stake in its MGM China Holdings Limited subsidiary from Hong Kong entrepreneur Pansy Ho.
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Earlier this year the Laos government decided to sell the Savan Vegas Hotel and Entertainment Complex and shortlisted up to six proposals. One of those shortlisted companies announced in May that the government...
In India, the government for the small state of Goa has passed legislation that considerably increases the license fees for land-based casinos while introducing two new offshore casino licensing categories.
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The Alliance Global Group in the Philippines and Genting Bhd in Malaysia created a joint venture company called the Travellers International Hotel which was responsible for operating the Resorts World Manila ca...
Ahead of next week’s planned opening of its new $4.2 billion Wynn Palace Cotai development, American casino operator Wynn Resorts Limited has announced that it has received approval to transfer up to 250 under-...
The central bank of Bangladesh has revealed that it is withholding the findings of an investigation into a February cyber theft that netted criminals around $81 million in order to avoid tipping off the “foreig...
In this year’s second quarter, South Korean operator Grand Korea Leisure Co Ltd.’s (114090.KS) net income rose to KRW25.6bn (US$23.1m), a year-on-year increase of 38.1 percent, according to a G3 Newswire report...
Entertainment Gaming Asia is a Pan-Asia focused gaming company that has recently seen short-term revenue losses. After a filing on Friday, it was revealed that the company plans on developing a social casino pl...