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.
Silver Heritage Group Limited, located in the tiny Asian nation of Nepal, has reportedly opened talks with at least four parties said to be interested in buying its Tiger Palace Resort Bhairahawa venue.
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The government for Macau has reportedly announced that the amount of tax it collected over the course of the first four months of 2019 directly from gaming operations had risen by some 4.4% year-on-year to reac...
In the Philippines, the operator behind the Widus Hotel and Casino has reportedly announced that it has secured a syndicated loan worth approximately $133.9 million that it intends to use in order to help bring...
The boss for French gambling and hotels giant, Groupe Lucien Barriere, has reportedly declared that his firm would be ‘comfortable’ holding a minority stake in any new Japanese integrated casino resort so long ...
Billionaire Japanese businessman, Kazuo Okada (pictured), has reportedly filed a lawsuit against eleven individuals in the Philippines claiming that they had illegally conspired in the process that led to him b...
In Macau, a pair of masked men wielding pepper spray reportedly stormed into The Plaza Macao yesterday before terrorizing staff and making off with gaming chips worth in excess of $394,900.
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In the Philippines, local trading and shipping firm Udenna Corporation has reportedly announced that it is to make a second run at raising enough cash to build a new $600 million integrated casino resort on the...
In China, last month reportedly saw aggregated lottery product sales decrease by some 13.7% year-on-year to approximately ¥35.99 billion ($5.21 billion) with comparative figures improving in only two of the gia...
Foreign gaming firms that win the three integrated casino resort licenses being put up for grabs in Japan could face problems in hiring the thousands of employees such venues would require due to the nation cur...
The gaming industry in the Philippines reportedly recorded aggregated first-quarter gross gaming revenues of just over $1.1 billion with the majority of this at around $756 million having come from the three La...
Leading developer and supplier of luxury electronic table gaming (ETG) products, Interblock has announced that it will, via its long-standing partnership with Indepth Insights Inc. (Indepth), renew its deal to ...
The first three months of the year have reportedly seen law enforcement officials in Macau increase their efforts against organized crime groups that conduct kidnappings and illegal loan-sharking tied to gambli...
Asian junket operator, Suncity Group Holdings Limited, has reportedly announced that it has signed an agreement that is to give it the exclusive right to operate gaming operations inside Vietnam’s under-constru...
New research from financial services firm Morgan Stanley Asia Limited has reportedly determined that the casino market in the Philippines is ‘growing faster’ than the analogous sectors of Macau, Las Vegas and S...
The boss for the Japanese subsidiary of giant American casino operator, MGM Resorts International, has reportedly revealed that his firm will be submitting an official proposal in hopes of winning the right to ...