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.
Goa’s Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar and his government have received a lot of criticism from the opposition party and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the state for allowing offshore casinos to cont...
Philippines state gambling regulator PAGCOR, has allowed a month to month license renewal for online gaming operator PhilWeb. Share prices for the Realtime Gaming Asia (RTG) e-gaming station provider were down ...
Vietnamese property developer Saigon Cuu Long Corporation has signed a deal that will see Hilton Worldwide manage the hotel operations at its new casino and hotel property in Ho Chi Minh City.
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An investigation from the state-run Commission On Audit (COA) has reportedly found that the Philippine Amusement And Gaming Corporation owes the government just over $327 million as a result of an under-remitta...
Thursday saw an announcement by the Judiciary Police of Macau that they have arrested 8 members of an alleged loan sharking group from mainland China who had been targeting gamblers in the lesser known and smal...
The BJP ruling government in the state of Goa continues to be pressured to ban the casino industry in the state and to immediately re-locate all offshore casinos on the Mandovi River. The issue has been discuss...
Electronic gaming machine (EGM) firm Entertainment Gaming Asia has sold the entire estates of appliances it leased to Cambodia’s NagaWorld Hotel And Entertainment Complex and the Leisure World VIP Slot Club in ...
Legislators in the Philippines are looking to introduce a new bill aimed at imposing tighter regulations on money laundering activities in the country. The new bill targets the casino industry via the Anti-Mone...
Local outlet Macau Business Daily is reporting that Francis Lui Yiu Tung, vice chair of Galaxy Entertainment Group, has told Chinese language newspaper Macao Daily in an interview that the lingering downturn in...
South Korean casino operator Paradise Company Limited has released its consolidated financial results for June showing a 99.2% increase year-on-year in total sales to approximately $39.6 million.
According t...
Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd. seems to be set to finally ask permission to open VIP gaming at their previously mass market focused Studio City casino in Macau. Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources as the inform...
If new legislation introduced into the House of Representatives of the Philippines this week is successful, it could subject local casinos to strict anti-money laundering (AML) requirements.
House Bill 14 wa...
The first ever Global Busan Tourism Forum was held in Busan towards the end of June 2016 and one of the hot topics discussed was the possibility of developing a mega casino resort in Busan that would boost tour...
Although gross gaming revenue in Macau saw a year on year drop in the first half of 2016 to MOP107.79 billion, a decline of 11.4 percent from the corresponding period in 2015, the latest report by the governmen...
Having opened the world's largest casino at 10,500,000-square-feet (980,000 m2) with the Venetian Macao in 2007, Mark Brown is no stranger to thinking big and executing seemingly fantastic and unbelievable plan...