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.
In Macau and the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau regulator has reportedly sent letters to every one of the city’s six licensed casino operators asking that they temporarily refrain from implementing s...
The Wynn Macau Limited subsidiary of American casino operator Wynn Resorts Limited is reportedly boosting the amount of commission it pays Macau’s many junket operators so as to recover from the downturn in bus...
Asian casino operator Donaco International Limited has reportedly agreed a compromise to the long-running legal dispute involving the 50-year lease for the land occupied by its Star Vegas Resort and Club in Cam...
The 39 active casinos in Macau reportedly saw their aggregated gross gaming revenues for February plummet by 87.8% year-on-year to just $387.2 million as a direct result of the measures put into place to stop t...
In South Korea and the operator behind the Kangwon Land Casino has reportedly extended its temporary closure of the venue until Sunday as it looks to help stop the spread of the highly-contagious coronavirus st...
Asian casino operator Genting Malaysia Berhad has reportedly released its unaudited financial results for the final three months of 2019 showing that its net profit had crashed by almost 60% year-on-year to abo...
Asian casino operator Galaxy Entertainment Group Limited has reportedly released its financial results for the final three months of 2019 showing an 8.4% drop year-on-year in company-wide net revenues to approx...
In Macau and fears over the highly-contagious coronavirus strain reportedly helped to push the average January occupancy rate for the city’s many three to five-star hotels down by some 14.5% year-on-year to onl...
The World Poker Tour announced this week that the upcoming Season XIX will begin with the WPT Cambodia. The NagaWorld Integrated Resort of Phnom Penh will be hosting the tour stop. The Main Event will include a...
In southern Vietnam and local real estate developer KN Cam Ranh Company Limited has reportedly announced that its envisioned KN Paradise Cam Ranh seaside resort has received formal government approval to featur...
Prominent Asian junket firm Suncity Group has reportedly finalized a 20-year deal that is to see one of its subsidiaries become the main operator of the casino to be located within the Philippines’ coming Resor...
In South Korea and the operator behind the Kangwon Land Casino has temporarily closed the venue until Wednesday morning in an effort to help stop the spread of the highly-contagious coronavirus strain.
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The boss for Asian casino operator Melco Resorts and Entertainment Limited has reportedly declared that it could take ‘quite a long time’ for the gambling industry in Macau to recover from the negative impacts ...
In Japan and the government for Wakayama Prefecture has reportedly announced the initiation of a consultation period in which it intends to invite comments from ‘interested parties’ concerning its plan to host ...
The boss for Macau casino operator SJM Holdings Limited has reportedly asked the local government to consider handing out tax breaks so as to help gambling firms recover from the financial impacts of the enclav...