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.
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...
Taiwan’s small island chain consisting of Penghu, Matsu and Kinmen have been pushing hard for a number of years to receive approval to provide casino gaming on the island. Ever since Taiwan lifted its prohibiti...
Macau billionaire Lui Che-Woo made his fortune by turning the Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd into the third largest casino enterprise in the world. The 86 year old chairman recently announced that his company w...
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and affiliates are reported to be investing HK$2.39 billion ($308 million) to gain about 59% control of AGTech Holdings Ltd. in a return to the lottery market after exiting due to gov...
With fewer VIP gamblers visiting Macau, the casinos in the once bustling city are now earning less money. With less earnings, pay drops are expected and Steve Wynn of Wynn Resorts is one such individual who is ...
Preparations to expand its business in the Asia-Pacific region are being made by the Hard Rock Group, according to Hong King Economic Journal report. One of the key target markets is China.
Chief Executive o...
As reported in September, the Selena World Resort under development in the Primorye Integrated Entertainment Zone (PIEZ) near Vladivostok, Russia will be comprised of three separate phases of development, each ...
The Tinian Dynasty Hotel and Casino is going to close their hotel on a temporary basis after the venue has seen a decrease in customers staying in their guest rooms. Joey Patrick San Nicolas, the Mayor of Tinia...