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.
In Macau, VIP junket operator Iao Kun Group Holding Company Limited could be facing a lawsuit after recently announcing that it had closed its high-roller operations at the StarWorld Casino And Hotel Resort and...
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said he was unhappy with e-bingo and e-gaming establishments in the country targeting poor Filipinos and making profits out of their losses. He instructed the Philippine Am...
The state of Goa in India makes a significant amount of its revenue from its vibrant tourism industry and one of the biggest tourist attractions in the state is the onshore and offshore casino industry. Only th...
Japanese billionaire Kazou Okada is focusing on promoting tourism in the Philippines and is currently in talks with two of the biggest cruise liners in the world as he seeks to convince them to make the Philipp...
After posting a 1.1% increase year-on-year in overall gross gaming revenues for August to $2.4 billion, Macau’s gaming industry could be about to register its second straight month of growth following over two ...
Morgan Stanley recently released a market report for Q2 of 2016 covering the global VIP gambling market and revealed that Macau, the biggest gambling hub in the world continued to see its VIP market segment dec...
In the presence of huge crowds outside the half-scale replica of the Eiffel Tower, the Parisian Macau officially opened at 8:18pm on Tuesday.
The opening ceremony featured fireworks set off from the replica,...
Gaming analysts have said for years that Japan is in a great position to benefit from the legalization of the casino industry there, and in what seems more like déjà vu than news, the country is preparing yet a...
Las Vegas Sands Corporation could soon consider the possibility of building additional themed casino resorts in Macau including developments based around the iconic sights and sounds of London or San Francisco....
Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) said that on Monday, the U.S. Department of Transportation approved Hainan Airlines’ application to launch the first-ever nonstop flights from Beijing to Las ...
The government of Macau has ordered the immediate suspension of all lifting work at the under-construction Grand Lisboa Palace casino hotel following a fatal accident leading into the weekend.
According to l...
Las Vegas Sands Corp’s (LVS) Parisian Macau will finally open its doors to the public on September 13 and Sands China, a subsidiary of the LVS has planned a number of exciting events for the grand opening. The ...
CEO of Marina Bay Sands, George Tanasijevich, said in an interview with Korea Economic Daily, that if “investment conditions are met,” Las Vegas Sands Corp. is willing to invest between 5 to 12 trillion won ($4...
Imperial Pacific is the parent company of Best Sunshine International, the company that operates the Best Sunshine Live casino on Saipan Island, a part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)...
Vietnam allows only foreign tourists to gamble at its casinos as locals are currently banned from gambling. There have been attempts in the past to lift the ban on local gambling but so far nothing positive has...