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.
Last week over 8,500 employees at three staff rallies were witness to Melco Crown Entertainment’s unveiling of its Studio City Events Center.
COO Ted Chan along with other senior company executives were in a...
In a conference call Thursday that saw a candid Steve Wynn refer to an ongoing feud with Boston Mayor Martin Walsh as something of a perverse comedy, the chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts Ltd also criticized the...
Macau’s casino industry used to enlist special junket operators whose main role was to target VIP gamblers from Mainland China and bring them over to Macau’s casinos. These VIP gamblers accounted for more than ...
Kazuo Okada formerly held the director position at the top gambling company, Wynn Resorts Ltd., before he was fired from his position, reportedly by Steve Wynn himself. Okada was removed from the board of the c...
Over the last decade, Asia has quickly become the world's gambling hub. Although players in Europe and North America might feel somewhat disconnected to the Asian gaming market (since it's an entity that virtua...
Sands China Ltd’s newly appointed president and chief operating officer Wilfred Wong began his tenure yesterday with a significant milestone for the Parisian Macao resort. The lantern and dome structure was pla...
Macau’s casino industry lost over $100 billion during the last 18 months due to the anti-corruption crackdown which scared away high-rollers and caused a major slump in the gambling market in Macau. The market ...
According to local sources, one former national player and the team captain and vice-captain of Nepal’s national football team among others have been arrested and charged with match-fixing in international and ...
Nearly 6,000 people a day are visiting Imperial Pacific's "temporary casino" on the Northern Mariana Island of Saipan according to Hong Kong media reports. The company, which owns Best Sunshine and is an invest...
On Monday, CIMB Securities Ltd announced that Genting Malaysia Bhd had decided to postpone the opening of a theme park for Resorts World Genting. The resort area, also known as Genting Highlands, is the only ar...
Echo Entertainment and James Packer’s Crown Resorts battled it out to secure rights to construct a $3 billion mega-casino resort at Queen's Wharf, Brisbane. The Queensland government eventually decided that Ech...
According to data provided by Macau gaming officials, over 250 people have applied to be placed on the exclusion list of local casinos, all within a nine month time frame. By the end of September, the casino re...
All eyes are on Macau's Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, the regulators who will decide the number of tables to be allowed at Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd’s Studio City Macau when it opens later this...
Reports indicate that Tigre de Cristal held a successful soft launch or "test opening" Thursday afternoon near Vladivostok, Russia. Local media outlets were indicating that events would occur between 16:00 and ...
Based on a recent filing with the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, Iao Kun, a junket company operating in Macau, has seen a decline in the year-on-year rolling chip turnover for September. Reports show that the operator ...