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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On Monday, the Macau government confirmed that the proposed waterside development facility, Macau Fisherman’s Wharf, currently under construction will have its own border post.
International visitors arrivin...
Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd has been working on the City of Dreams casino resort of Macau for some time now, with several aspects in the works. According to chief executive of Melco Crown Entertainment and co...
On Friday, a new gaming area was revealed at the Grand Lisboa, what the casino’s operator SJM Holdings Ltd is calling a ‘grand opening’ based on the revitalization project of the property. The operator has been...
With new casinos coming to the Cotai, it would seem that junket operators of Macau would be interested in offering their VIP services in the area. However, this is not the case. Junket operators are having a ha...
On Monday, Hong Kong-listed gaming investor Imperial Pacific International Holdings Ltd (HKG: 1076) reported a net loss of HKD84.37 million (US$10.87 million) for the entire 2015, compared to 2014’s loss of HKD...
Details are beginning to emerge in one of the largest cyber bank heists in history with the governor of Bangladesh's central bank resigning along with two deputies being fired. $81 million was reportedly stole...
According to a press statement released by police, four people suspected of attempting to cheat patrons at the Marina Bay Sands casino have been arrested.
Police said today that they were alerted to suspecte...
Gaming promoter, Neptune Group, says that the crisis that has hit the gaming sector hard has rendered the territory’s existing VIP junket model no longer sustainable.
The company said in an interim report fi...
A 41 percent increase in consolidated revenue has been reported by Pan-Asia focused Entertainment Gaming Asia Inc. for the 2015 fiscal year, at $31.5 million. The company attributes the rise to increases in gam...
During a meeting on Friday afternoon in Macau between the Secretary for Economy and Finance Lionel Leong Vai Tak, legislator José Coutinho, and Stephen Lan, issues were discussed revolving around the retirement...
Although Stephen Hung has already poured more than a billion dollars into The 13, his all-suite hotel on the Coloane/Cotai border may not offer any gambling games when it opens this summer. Cotai is 'newly' re...
The Senate Blue Ribbon committee will attempt to fix loopholes in the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) on Tuesday when is conducts a public hearing on the alleged $81 million cross-border money-laundering and e...
As the Macau gaming industry flounders, operators are trying to determine what to do to bring in gamblers. The Las Vegas Sands Corp. President and Chief Operating Officer, Robert Goldstein, has stated that gami...
As Macau continues to see declining revenue earnings from local casinos, venue employees are worried about potential lay-offs. Forefront of Macao Gaming is a labor group of Macau who has reported that members o...
1,000 of the Sands China Ltd staff will now have the opportunity to take part in a new career development program offered by the company. The program was created to provide casino employees the option to take o...