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.
Things are looking up for Lawrence Ho's Tigre de Cristal casino near Vladivostok, Russia. Mr. Ho's Summit Ascent Holdings held a soft launch for the first of many casinos to come in the Primorye Integrated Ente...
Las Vegas may soon secure better access to visitors from mainland China after Hainan Airlines applied to run up to three direct flights a week between the city’s McCarran International Airport and Beijing.
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Sheldon Adelson’s Marina Bay Sands Casino has been approved to operate in the city-state for an additional three years.
Last week, the city state’s Casino Regulatory Authority (CRA) announced that the casino...
Ahead of its planned opening on the Cotai Strip later in the year, the Wynn Palace resort casino has hired 3,600 employees following hundreds of onsite interviews and several job fairs organized with the suppor...
Well-established Macau gaming operator Galaxy Entertainment Group has posted quarterly profit gain for the first time since 2014. The financial data, which was released on Wednesday, revealed solid results than...
Gambling is currently illegal in the state of Maharashtra but the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) is pushing the state government to legalize the industry and license offshore casinos, which ...
Russian Gaming Week (RGW) is set to bring all sectors of the burgeoning CIS casino industry together in one place when the Tenth Annual RGW is held at the Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Center in Moscow on...
The future of Macau is being considered by government officials, with a new guiding tool having been introduced yesterday. The new Five-Year Development Plan for Macau was revealed by the government during a pr...
By early May, the government of Macau should be ready to release information on the gaming industry of the city based on a mid-term review. First started in May of 2015, the mid-term review will involve the gam...
This week, the Midori Clark Hotel and Casino in the Philippines will have a soft opening for the casino only. In an email to GGRAsia, the property’s marketing team said that the grand opening to include the hot...
Genting Singapore Plc, part of the Malaysian based Genting Group, recently announced that it had decided to shut-down its Macau subsidiary with immediate effect. The company decided to close its Genting Star (M...
A three-member advisory committee has been established by Hong Kong-listed Imperial Pacific International Holdings Ltd (1076:HKG) to provide the firm’s management with “sound strategic and tactical advice,” rep...
A P1.9-billion property in Quezon City, the most populous city in the Philippines, is the chosen location for Filipino billionaire, and chairman of Bloomberry Resorts Corp, Enrique Razon Jr.’s second casino in ...
Local media of Macau, the Macau Business Daily, is reporting that the MGM Macau is no longer offering a VIP room operated by the Cali Group. The Macau junket operator has reportedly shut down another VIP operat...
On Thursday, Filipino billionaire, and chairman of Bloomberry Resorts Corp, Enrique Razon Jr., warned that the opening of two additional gaming complexes within the next two years would produce an “oversupply” ...