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.
As it works through the process of legalizing specific types of gambling, the government for Vietnam has announced plans to trial some forms of online and land-based sportsbetting while permitting wagering on h...
A large Chinese holding company with a subsidiary who operates casinos in Sri Lanka, Zambia, and Mozambique has opened Casino Marina at the Golden Peacock Hotel Complex in New City Centre, Lilongwe, Malawi. Loc...
The Philippines continues its crackdown against some elements of the gambling industry in the country under the leadership of President Rodrigo Duterte. Authorities in the Philippines arrested over 1300 Chinese...
The six major casino operators in Macau could soon be turning their focus to Coloane to develop new casinos in the region. Gaming operators have focused on developing casinos in the Cotai district during the pa...
Amax International Holdings Limited (HKEx:959), a stakeholder in Taipa, Macau's shuttered Greek Mythology Casino at the Beijing Imperial Palace Hotel, has posted a HK$18.287 million loss for the six month perio...
In China, a court has heard how an illegal online gambling website established in 2012 processed nearly $60 billion in wagers from some two million people and made its operators a profit of almost $84 million b...
Over the weekend, it was reported by Xinhua news that 94 individuals were arrested by police in China. Those arrested were thought to be involved in a cross-border gambling ring worth $72 billion. The activitie...
James Packer's Crown Resorts has reportedly deployed a host of high-powered in-house and outside legal advisers and counsel to help assess the corporation's vulnerability and liability following the arrest of 1...
Donaco International Ltd. (ASX:DNA) chairman Stuart McGregor updated stakeholders during the company's 2016 annual general meeting (AGM) on Thursday. McGregor began the body of his address by noting that 2016 h...
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...