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) continues to ban offshore gaming clubs in order to establish safety and security in the country. After canceling the gaming license for CGC Technologies ...
Following the release of the hit HelioPOPolis, on May 25, AvatarUX, an online slots developer based in Hong Kong, released Kitty POPpins, a new cat-themed adventure that is part of its POP series featuring a bu...
The renovations on the Londoner Macao are finally over, and the Cotai Strip integrated resort prepared a grand celebration to present the new, upgraded version of itself.
Grand celebration:
The renovatio...
A long-awaited RFKR Resort in Incheon, South Korea, won’t be finished in the following 15 months. On top of that, the administrative procedures are still to be finalized, so the date of the grand opening is sti...
As Inside Asian Gaming reports, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) said that it has cancelled the accreditation of CGC Technologies Inc, a Philippine offshore gaming operator (POGO). Accor...
Philippines gaming regulator PAGCOR's move to officially sell its casinos is predicted to be hampered by the growing number of domestic players moving from PAGCOR casinos to integrated resorts in Manila and Cla...
In the first quarter of 2023, casinos in Macau saw a recovery, with Galaxy Entertainment on Monday the newest to announce a big rebound in profit after the official lifting of Covid-19 restrictions.
Returnin...
After a troubling few months and many issues, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (PAGCOR) had, along the way, made an important decision. Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO) was shut by PAGCOR ear...
The strong Macau gaming industry growth in the first quarter of 2023 continued throughout the month of April as well. Inside Asian Gaming reports the figures released by the Financial Services Bureau to indicat...
For the first time ever, fully automated electronic table games (ETGs) have been approved for use in South Korean casinos, according to the country’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Approval:
Acc...
Inside Asian Gaming reports that the gross gaming revenues of the Philippine gambling industry soared to Php68.9 billion (US$1.24 billion) in the first quarter of 2023. The strong growth was reportedly driven b...
On May 12, Melco Resorts & Entertainment, an international Hong Kong-based developer, operator and owner of casino gaming and entertainment resorts, revealed that City of Dreams Mediterranean will officiall...
On May 8, Genting Malasyia Bhd, one of the world's leading leisure and hospitality corporations and owner of Malaysia's casino monopoly at Resorts World Genting, disclosed that it is raising MYR500 million in t...
Macau is famous all over the Asian market as the gambling heaven. However, it seems that it struggles with non-gaming investments. As Zeng Zhongly, a professor from the Center for Gaming and Tourism Studies at ...
Osaka's casino resort is the first in more ways than one. Not only will it be the first integrated casino resort in the whole of Japan, but now it has secured the highest-ever loan of JPY550 billion (US$4.1 bil...