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.
Only hours after being sworn in as the country’s 16th President at a ceremony on Thursday, Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to stop the proliferation of online gambling in the Philippines and revoke existing licences....
Data released Friday by Macau's casino regulator, the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ) show the gaming downturn entering its third year with a year on year gross gaming revenue (GGR) drop of 8....
In May, 2016, Macau Legend Development Ltd, a Hong Kong-listed company, revealed that it had come to an agreement with the Laos government to take over the Savan Vegas Hotel and Entertainment complex. However, ...
So far police have recovered approximately $120,000 in winnings resulting from a syndicate member’s use of sophisticated technology to cheat two Singapore casinos.
In the first case of its kind, The Straight...
Venetian Macau and MGM Macau have had their appeals denied which related to tourism taxes owed from 2011 and 2009 respectively. Galaxy Entertainment Group had previously exercised their last appeal on taxes owe...
Local television and radio broadcaster Teledifusão de Macau reports that the MGM Cotai casino resort, originally scheduled to open by the end of 2016, will not experience any serious delays according to an arti...
After receiving a conditional license late in January, the Alter City Group’s $1.7 billion Plumeria Golf and Casino Resort at Nasarino Beach on the Northern Mariana Island of Tinian held a groundbreaking ceremo...
Vietnam has eight casinos and 43 slot parlors, but unless they hold a foreign passport, Vietnamese citizens are forbidden to gamble at home. That could change for the first time if the government approves a dra...
In a brief press release today, Wynn Macau, Limited announced that the new Wynn Palace casino resort will open in the Cotai area of Macau on August 22, 2016. In the statement to media Wynn Macau said, "The comp...
The government of Kerala, an Indian state, is considering amending a 40-year old law, which will make the reorganization of bridge and poker as games of skill possible, according to a recent announcement and a ...
Bloomberry Resorts Corp. said in a filing the Philippine Stock Exchange last week that it's subsidiary Solaire Korea Co. Ltd is selling their 96.23 percent share in the company that owns Jeju Sun Hotel & C...
The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ,which is Taiwan’s current governing party, has been a strong opponent of the casino industry for a number of years and has not been in favor of licensing casinos on Taiwa...
Thunderbird Resorts And Casinos has broke ground on an expansion project for its Poro Point casino resort in the Philippines that will see the seaside development add 47 new villas as well as a pair of food and...
Although prospects for Macau's dog racing enthusiasts may not be bright, the Macau Jockey Club & Racing Complex (MJC) seems to be positioning for a rebirth of the horse racing industry in the former Portugu...
More than 100 employees awaiting past wages and damages owed them by the Tinian Dynasty Hotel and Casino are living on rationed food and have been without power since Friday when service to the barracks they’ve...