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 having discussed the possibility of approving a casino in either one of the outlying island chains of Penghu for a number of years, following a county election committee decision on Monday, a referendum a...
Genting Hong Kong Ltd (hk:678) partnered with the Alliance Global Group Inc in the Philippines to form the Travellers International Hotel Group Inc which is the company that operates Resorts World Manila, situ...
The number of people employed in the Macau casino industry during the second quarter dropped slightly when compared with the same three-month period in 2016 although average salaries experienced a minimal incre...
Pagcor, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation who owns and operates casinos and delegates land based casino licenses in the most populated areas of the country, may be getting into the online gambling...
It is the opinion of the Philippine Department of Finance (DOF) that the country’s gaming regulator, Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), should operate only in a regulatory capacity and allow ...
Hong Kong based Imperial Pacific International Holdings is the parent company of Best Sunshine International, operating Best Sunshine Live temporary casino in Saipan a part of the Commonwealth of the Northern M...
The most senior law enforcement official in Macau has revealed that the number of criminal offences related to gambling or casinos during the first six months of 2016 grew by 13.5% year-on-year to 814 while ove...
Philippines farming products distributor Calata Corporation has announced plans to team up with American firm Sino-America Gaming Investment Group and British Virgin Islands-registered Macau Resources Group Lim...
The highly anticipated unveiling of the $4.2 billion Wynn Palace took place on August 22, 2016 when Steve Wynn, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Wynn Resorts, let the world in on the company...
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...