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.
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” ...
May 1 is known as International Workers Day and commonly referred to as Labor Day in Asia. Two of Macau’s labor groups have plans to submit individual petitions to the government on May 1 for increasing the ben...
The Las Vegas Sands Corp is the biggest casino enterprise in the world and derives a significant portion of its revenue from its Macau based subsidiary, the Sands China Ltd. However the collapse of the Macau ca...
A note from Sterne Agee CRT on Monday stated that Melco Crown’s new Studio City is being hurt by continued disruptions going on next to the property.
While the U.S.-based brokerage said it still believes tha...
Lawrence Ho Yau Lung has gained the majority of the directors on the board of Tigre de Cristal operator Oriental Regent Ltd via its fully owned entity Summit Ascent Russia Ltd. Moreover, in a filing to the Hong...
NewKaliningrad.ru reports the scheduled opening of the Yantarnaya gaming zone’s first gaming facility, situated in the westernmost region of Kaliningrad, a seaport city located between Poland and Lithuania alon...
While most Asian markets including Macau experienced a significant decline in gambling revenues in 2015, Cambodia’s casino industry has bucked the trend and recorded strong profits. The NagaWorld casino resort ...
Online lottery operations in China stopped in March of last year due to evidence suggesting fraud among officials of the lottery administration centers across several provinces. Reports have now emerged that st...
The decline of Macau’s casino industry over the last two years has made it difficult for junket operators to run a successful operation as these middle agents played a key role in bringing VIP gamblers to Macau...
A couple of years ago it would have been inconceivable to think that visitors to Macau would have to pay for a shuttle ride from the ferry terminal to any one of Macau’s casinos. Casinos were happy to invest in...
Paul Lee has been appointed to the newly created position of Chief Sales Officer at World Gaming Group (WGG) with immediate effect. The company announced the news Monday.
World Gaming Group’s Chief Executive...
With several new resort venues in the works for the city of Macau, analysts believe that by 2017, the city will reach overcapacity. Morgan Stanley is warning that the gambling city will see a rise in competitio...