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.
Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd. is taking a 5 percent stake in a Monaco hotel and casinos operator established in 1863. The shares in Societe des Bains de Mer et du Cercle des Etrangers a Monaco (SBM) are being...
According to recently released data for June, foreign visitor numbers to S. Korea have plummeted 41% compared to a year ago – a dramatic change from numbers reported during the first five months of the year and...
The Resorts World Sentosa was recently subject to cheating after a croupier and patron decided to work together to cheat the facility. Just yesterday, nine charges were served against the two individuals involv...
In a recently released report by an investigative team at The Guardian, and originally commissioned by Sands China in 2010 as part if its internal corporate data collection, a private investigator stated that c...
According to Macau Business Daily, Lawrence Ho, co-chairman and chief executive officer of Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd., hopes the Russian casino-resort project Tigre De Cristal in Vladivostok, Russia will fu...
Vietnam is one country that has benefited greatly from the collapse of Macau’s casino industry. High stake gamblers from Mainland China have shown a preference to travel to Vietnamese casinos where the gambling...
Thirty people who were charged with allegedly taking part in illegal gambling were in court on Monday in China's Yunnan Province, according to the media.
Wang Lijuan, the alleged ringleader, along with 29 ot...
Macau Legend announced their intent to invest in a Cape Verde Casino to the tune of $200 million USD. On July 20, 2015, the Macau Company stated they would meet with Cape Verde Officials at some point this week...
Despite weakness in the regional gaming industry, Genting Hong Kong announced on Friday that it expects a net profit of at least US$2.1 billion for the first half of the year.
Genting Hong Kong is part of Ma...
The Asian gaming boom continues even as revenues shrink in flagship Macau. Seeing massive tax possibilities and tourism benefits, coupled with an exodus of VIPs from Macau, several Asian countries including Vie...
The Cambodian Daily is reporting that gaming tax revenue increased year on year a full 20% in the first half of 2015 to $12 million. A Finance Minister is cited as saying that the increase is due to an increase...
GGRAsia reports that Macau’s second quarter VIP baccarat gaming revenue has fallen 42.2 percent, almost $4 billion U.S., compared to last year’s earnings. Casino gross gaming revenue (GGR) overall for the first...
President Vladimir Putin has recently signed legislation designating Russia’s eastern city Vladivostok as a free port, a move intended to revive the country’s eastern economy. In addition to providing local tax...
Clark County District Court Judge Elizabeth Gonzales has dismissed a request to unseal a report many believe may have information tying the Las Vegas Sands Corporation and chairman Sheldon Adelson to organized ...
Hong Kong based Imperial Pacific International Holdings Ltd had earlier obtained a license to operate a casino on Saipan, a part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). Although the company ...