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.
After stating earlier this month that it wanted to promote the Philippines as a destination for luxury cruise operators, Tiger Resort Leisure And Entertainment Incorporated has reportedly announced plans to add...
The tax for slot machines and betting shops in the Russian Federation will be doubled by the Russian Finance Ministry, according to an Asia Gaming Brief report.
The news agency reports that Deputy Finance Mi...
After closing its high-roller operations at the Sands Cotai Central, the StarWorld Casino And Hotel Resort and the Galaxy Macau Casino earlier this month, VIP junket operator Iao Kun Group Holding Company Limit...
Casinos in the Philippines reported a 30% increase year-on-year in aggregate gross casino revenues for the three months to the end of June to approximately $711.68 million due in part to a rise in the popularit...
Tiger Resort Leisure And Entertainment Incorporated has announced that it is on schedule to open the $2.4 billion first phase of its Okada Manila integrated casino resort before the end of the year and wants to...
PhilWeb, a gaming operator based in the Philippines, is currently in the process of seeing their former chairman divest his holdings within the company while a new chairman is taking over. Roberto Ongpin is the...
September 22, 2016 - Sochi, Russia
On October 27, 2016, the resort city of Sochi will host the gambling event dedicated to the establishment of the gambling zone in Gorki Gorod – Russian Gambling Week - Soch...
A joint anti-organized crime operation launched by police forces Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau two months ago has resulted in more than 1,000 people being arrested.
According to a report from local radio an...
Global casino operator Genting Singapore looks likely to keep its upcoming annual dividend payments at the same level as 2015 as it awaits more clarity on the future likelihood of a resort casino development in...
Macau casino operator SJM Holdings Limited has reportedly determined that only 30 live gaming tables will be sufficient to open its redeveloped Casino Jai Alai venue before the end of the year.
According to ...
On Monday, a press release was issued by Asian Coast Development Ltd in regards to changes within their board of directors. The developer and owner of the Grand Ho Tram casino resort located in Vietnam has resh...
The tourism department in Nevada has worked hard for the last twenty years to open a direct route from China to Las Vegas but it was only last week that the U.S. Department of Transportation approved nonstop fl...
The government of Macau has revealed that it only intends to present general guidelines for the development of the enclave’s non-gaming tourist industry and let operators decide for themselves exactly what proj...
Despite facing an official policy that has seen its users issued with some 379 fines totaling over $1.25 million since January, the ride-sharing mobile application Uber has announced that it intends to continue...
Hong Kong based Imperial Pacific which is the parent company of Best Sunshine International, the company that runs the Best Sunshine Live casino in Saipan is looking to attract investors by issuing high-yield b...