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.
Non-management staff will be paid a special bonus, equivalent to one month’s salary, by Macau casino operator MGM China Holdings Limited. The first of the bonus’ two installments will be paid at the end of this...
Thailand is looking into the possibility of an AEC lottery to aid in the relief of disaster ravaged member countries, according to local sources.
Similar to those in western countries the regional lottery wo...
On Thursday January 21, Synectics plc (AIM: SNX), designer and management of advanced surveillance technology and networked security systems, announced a “multi-million pound” contract had been awarded to its r...
The Commonwealth Casino Commission has announced that Best Sunshine International is now financially capable to complete the construction phase of the Grand Mariana Casino Resort, a project the company had unde...
On January 14 the bankruptcy petition filed by Hong Kong Entertainment Investments Ltd, owner of the Tinian Dynasty Hotel & Casino, was granted dismissal and all other pending motions filed in the case rend...
Macau’s anti-corruption crackdown against VIP gamblers from Mainland China has been going on for the last 24 months and has resulted in stricter visa regulations to tourists from Mainland China. In 2015, the go...
Macau’s casinos have been the target of an anti-corruption government crackdown for the last 24 months, but Steve Vickers and Associates Ltd now warns that the biggest gambling hub in the world is an ‘attractiv...
Macau’s junket operators have not been given a lot of attention by the media during 2014 and 2015, as the losses incurred by Macau’s casinos has been the focus of most discussions. However, Macau’s junket opera...
Cambodia’s government went out of its way to welcome gambling providers into the country during the past few years and its liberal gambling laws have been successful in attracting major investors into its casin...
Paulo Martins Chan, Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau new director, revealed that the regulatory refused to renew a total of 35 junket operator licences because the companies failed to submit ne...
The state of Maharashtra is one of the most popular states in India because at its center is the city of Mumbai known for being the financial hub of India and the Bollywood film industry. The government in Maha...
Hong Kong based brokerage Sanford C. Bernstein published a note claiming that approximately 52% of Macau’s December casino gross gaming revenue comes from mass market gambling. These numbers, according to the f...
Many of Macau’s casinos have accepted the fact that the VIP market segment will most likely never be the same as it was before and have since moved on to focusing on mass market gamblers just as the Macau gover...
In Vietnam, Da Nang is the fourth largest city and is the central area that contains a sea port. With the sea port, foreign tourist cruise ships will now have the opportunity to dock their ships and continue to...
The planned acquisition of the developing company of NagaCity Walk by the NagaCorp Ltd has been delayed to the end of 2017. The 18-month delay was revealed by the Cambodian gaming operator and a possible reason...