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.
In an effort to increase the number of local employees promoted to management positions within the casino industry of Macau, the local government has decided to tighten the renewal process for non-resident casi...
Macau’s smoking lounges aren’t going anywhere for now, as long as the health of casino employees isn’t jeopardized.
The smoking lounges were supported by a majority of the Macau Legislative Assembly working ...
Global Gaming Expo (G2E) Asia 2016, which ran from May 17 - 19 at the Venetian Macao this year saw another record-breaking turn out. Over 10,000 visitors attended the three-day event, up 11 percent from last y...
Union Gaming Securities Asia has conducted research on the popularity of electronic table games over the past several years and have found that the number of ETG seats should increase by more than 25% over a th...
The first phase of the $2.7 billion Manila Bay Resorts development is on track to open by the end of the year with operator Tiger Resorts Leisure And Entertainment confident about the project’s future, despite ...
Macau’s casino industry has taken a hit during the last twenty four months due to the anti-corruption crackdown launched by Beijing but that has not deterred gaming operators from proceeding with their plans of...
In a note on Tuesday, Bernstein said that a proposal to lower gaming tax has been made by a Macau lawmaker in an attempt to increase the region’s competitiveness.
The tax change was recently proposed by Maca...
Singapore-based casino complex Resorts World Sentosa announced on Monday that it started a strategic collaboration with Chinese mobile payment provider Alipay, making it possible for customers to make on-site p...
The new Cotai development, Grand Lisboa Palace, expects to request 400-500 new-to-market gaming tables before it opens in late 2017 or early 2018. Macao Daily reported that Friday, SJM Holdings Ltd's Chief Exec...
In South Korea, the national government has rejected a local proposal that would have seen the tax rate on gross gaming revenues for the eight casinos in the island province of Jeju double to 20%.
According ...
The Maharashtra government was instructed by the Bombay High Court in 2015 to review the Maharashtra Casinos (Control and Tax) act of 1976 and make a decision on permitting offshore gambling in the state within...
The investigation into the theft and laundering of approximately $81 million from the bank account of the Bangladesh central bank at the Federal Reserve in New York was ended on Thursday by the Philippine Senat...
Amax International Holdings Ltd (HKEx:959) announced this week that on May 15 they had been given in principle approval to begin gaming operations from the Republic of Vanuatu.
The release to the Hong Kong Sto...
Efforts to bring casino gaming to Taiwan's outlying island county of Penghu received a boost this week after proponents announced that they had collected more than 5,000 signatures calling for a referendum to b...
The Aurora Special Economic Zone and Freeport Authority (APECO) in the north eastern Philippines is looking to the gaming industry for investment and has begun to offer both land-based and online casino license...