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.
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) as per law has to pay only 5% franchise tax from its gaming operations and normal income tax on the operations generated from regular services. The Burea...
Macau’s casino industry lost over $100 billion in 2014 and the market is still in decline as the Chinese government continues its anti-corruption campaign. The government has issued an official notice to casino...
The building site for the MGM Casino Cotai was the location of a fatal accident last week as a Mainland Chinese worker was hit by a concrete pump on the site. While receiving medical treatment, the worker pass...
A baccarat event held last Tuesday by the Sands China Ltd Cotai Central property ended up setting a Guinness World Record for the largest ever first place prize awarded for a baccarat tournament. The event took...
Saipan is the second largest island within the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and is a popular tourist spot. The CNMI recently approved an amendment submitted by the Imperial Pacific Intern...
Sands China Ltd. was slapped with minor sanctions by District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez for redacting information from specific documents which were in relation to the Steve Jacobs, (former President of Sands Ch...
Once billed as the gambling hub of the world, Macau’s status of being a gambling paradise for high-rollers may be slipping away. The anti-corruption crackdown by the Chinese government in 2014 was relentless an...
Sun International owns and operates dozens of casinos in Africa and South Africa including Sun City Casino Resort, as well as The Monticello Grand Casino in Chile. It was recently announced that they would merg...
Singapore: David Sisk, a veteran operations exec, has just been appointed as the COO of Genting Singapore Pic's Resorts World Sentosa. The new appointment will have Sisk responsible for all of the operating uni...
Manila, Philippines, March 2, 2015 - APT Cambodia scheduled for May 26th to June 3rd, 2015 is to be cancelled.
Making the announcement, Jeff Mann, CEO, Asian Poker Tour said that the cancellation was due to...
The push has been on for several years to make Manila's Entertainment City a destination in its own right for well heeled gamblers from China as well as a place for the burgeoning middle and upper income Filipi...
Macau gaming operator Sands China Ltd stated on Wednesday that they have formed an exclusive partnership with a large Chimelong non-gaming resort on Hengqin Island, based in mainland China. Together these two c...
Kangwon Land Inc, (KRX:035250) posted net profits of KRW47.4 billion (US$42.7 million) for the final quarter of 2014, up nearly 70% from the same quarter for 2013. Kangwon Land Inc operates Kangwon Land Casino ...
The Tinian Casino Gaming Control Commission has given the go ahead to two major investors to build a Titanic-themed casino on Tinian in the Northern Marianas. The commission has ruled that the two major investo...
Russia's lower house has passed a bill (Bill 478806-6) banning online poker outside of Russia's (now six) designated legal gambling zones: Altai Krai, Kaliningrad region, Krasnodar Krai, Primorsky Krai, Cri...