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.
A practice that breeches racing rules exports hundreds of Australian greyhounds, determined by their owners and trainers to be to too slow for Australian racing, to Asia where they languish in deplorable condit...
Best Sunshine (Imperial Pacific) will pick up the remaining two years of Kan Pacific's lease in Marpi, Saipan where the Mariana Resort & Spa is located. Local news outlet, Marianas Variety reports that Best...
After conducting raids on illegal gambling dens, the police and military force of Thailand are being criticized after connections were found between the gaming operators and officers. Royal Thai Navy security p...
One million shares of Wynn Resorts Ltd. were purchased on the open market by billionaire founder Steve Wynn, the owner of casinos in Las Vegas and Macau. The stock rose 13 percent after the purchase leading the...
Two licensed gambling operators in the Himalayan state of Sikkim have finally launched their online operations. Golden Gaming International (formerly known as Maarm International) and Essel Group (operating the...
Acting Governor Ralph Torres signed Saipan's casino bill into law, but used line-item veto power to return some provisions for, "additional legislative work." House Bill 19-95 became Public Law 19-24 without ...
The once thriving casino industry in Macau has suffered its 18th consecutive month of declining revenue and one of the main reasons for this decline is attributed to the drop in VIP customers from Mainland Chin...
China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has financed the bank-appointed receivers of Baha Mar Resort, Deloitte & Touche, with $50 million as a preferred lender, moving to the top of the queue to be repaid,...
Ambrose So Shu Fai, SJM Holdings Chairman, said that Macau’s government has to come up with measures that would boost tourism in the gambling hub in order to help the struggling gaming industry in the city.
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The Crown International Games Club in Danang, Vietnam appears to have found the right formula in attracting a regular clientele of VIP gamblers from Mainland China, who once used to frequent Macau’s casinos.
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Just a week after being released from a 2013 arrest, 51-year-old Singapore businessman, Dan Tan, also known as Tan Seet Eng, was arrested again by police on Tuesday, December 1st for “involvement in criminal ac...
Best Sunshine International’s (BSI) $25 million live training facility will have glass enclosures as soon as it receives approval from its lessor, T Galleria.
The plan to address concerns regarding smoking a...
According to the Tinian Casino Gaming Control Commission, the Tinian Dynasty Casino will open with a gambling license this month. Marianas Variety reports that commission executive director Lucy Blanco-Maratita...
Russia banned casinos in 2009 but has authorized five special integrated gambling zones since then, the last being Sochi (pictured) the mostly abandoned site of the 2014 Winter Olympics. The first of these zone...
Delta Corp announced in a Bombay Stock Exchange filing that it has been granted a license to operate a casino at its Delta Suites Hotel in Goa. The only publicly traded gaming firm in India's stock was up 6% on...