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.
In a note on Tuesday, Bernstein said that a proposal to lower gaming tax has been made by a Macau lawmaker in an attempt to increase the region’s competitiveness.
The tax change was recently proposed by Maca...
Singapore-based casino complex Resorts World Sentosa announced on Monday that it started a strategic collaboration with Chinese mobile payment provider Alipay, making it possible for customers to make on-site p...
The new Cotai development, Grand Lisboa Palace, expects to request 400-500 new-to-market gaming tables before it opens in late 2017 or early 2018. Macao Daily reported that Friday, SJM Holdings Ltd's Chief Exec...
In South Korea, the national government has rejected a local proposal that would have seen the tax rate on gross gaming revenues for the eight casinos in the island province of Jeju double to 20%.
According ...
The Maharashtra government was instructed by the Bombay High Court in 2015 to review the Maharashtra Casinos (Control and Tax) act of 1976 and make a decision on permitting offshore gambling in the state within...
The investigation into the theft and laundering of approximately $81 million from the bank account of the Bangladesh central bank at the Federal Reserve in New York was ended on Thursday by the Philippine Senat...
Amax International Holdings Ltd (HKEx:959) announced this week that on May 15 they had been given in principle approval to begin gaming operations from the Republic of Vanuatu.
The release to the Hong Kong Sto...
Efforts to bring casino gaming to Taiwan's outlying island county of Penghu received a boost this week after proponents announced that they had collected more than 5,000 signatures calling for a referendum to b...
The Aurora Special Economic Zone and Freeport Authority (APECO) in the north eastern Philippines is looking to the gaming industry for investment and has begun to offer both land-based and online casino license...
President-elect Rodrigo Duterte announced on Tuesday that he had selected Andrea Domingo to head the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR).
Domingo, a member of Duterte’s election campaign tea...
The maximum investment that should be required from any developer considering whether to build a new integrated casino resort project in Vietnam is well below the $4 billion originally stipulated by government ...
South Korea’s casino industry has benefitted significantly from the collapse of Macau’s casino industry which was brought on by the anti-corruption crackdown. The country has a total of 17 casinos but allows lo...
Macau Legend Development Ltd struck a bargain with the Lao government recently giving them a 50 year monopoly in Bolikhamsay, Khammouane and Savannakhet provinces, which includes the location of the embattled S...
As it looks to complete construction of its $2 billion Manila Bay Resorts multi-phase hotel and casino development by the end of the year, Tiger Resort Leisure And Entertainment has secured a $809.9 million loa...
The owner and operator of the giant Resorts World Manila hotel and casino, Travellers International Hotel Group, has announced its financial results for the first three months of 2016 showing a 33.5% decline ye...