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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Casino operator Wynn Macau Limited has released its interim financial results for the first six months of 2016 showing a 20.6% drop year-on-year in net profit to $147.15 million alongside a 5.5% decrease in tot...
A final effort has been made by Roberto Ongpin to save the employees of Philweb Corp., a Philippine company that just recently received the news that they will not be seeing thA final effort has been made by Ro...
South Korean casino operator Paradise Group has made its first acquisition in the United States after spending $26 million in order to purchase a 167-room hotel in downtown Orlando, Florida.
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Hong Kong billionaire Tony Fung recently confirmed that his firm has decided to drop the plan of developing the Aquis Great Barrier Reef casino resort in Cairns. Fung and his team had worked on the project for ...
The state lottery and all forms of gambling are banned in the state of Karnataka, India. However when the state hosted the Invest Karnataka 2016 conference, talks surfaced about the possibility of introducing o...
Steve Wynn, billionaire and chairman of Wynn Resorts, has developed some of the most well known casinos in Macau and Las Vegas over the years. However, the $4.2 billion Wynn Palace in Macau is the company’s mos...
As the $4.2 billion Wynn Palace Cotai casino resort from operator Wynn Resorts Limited gets set to open its doors on Monday, news has emerged that the nearby Studio City Casino Macau development could be about ...
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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