The five-star hotel at Tigre de Cristal, the new casino resort in Russia’s Primorye economic zone, is fully booked through the New Year, according to media reports. The resort...
Donaco International Ltd.’s Star Vegas casino in Poipet, Cambodia, saw VIP rolling chip turnover rise 43 percent year-on-year for the first quarter of its financial year. Needless to add,...
Macau gaming associations say Sands China Ltd. has ordered slot machine workers to carry cash so they can distribute immediate dividends to gamblers. Opponents of the reported policy say...
Studio City (l.), Melco Crown’s lavish Hollywood-themed resort about to open on Macau’s Cotai Strip, will get 250 new-to-market table games. It needed 400 to avoid a loan default....
The Savan Vegas Hotel and Entertainment Complex (l.), a resort in Savannakhet Province, Laos, is up for sale, according to news reports. The integrated resort with a casino and...
The Macau government may help the city’s junket operators get a public makeover. Officials will soon meet the junket runners to discuss better accounting standards. The move comes in...
Despite a brief rally during the annual Golden Week holiday, Macau’s casino revenues for the month of October have not been game-changing. VIP liquidity continues to be weak and...
Travellers International Hotel Group Inc. is putting money aside from an IPO to fund the multimillion-dollar expansion of its Resorts World Manila (l.) property. It has already banked about...
Genting Hong Kong has acquired the Zouk Singapore brand for an undisclosed sum. The brand includes the Zouk Club in Clarke Quay, Singapore and the annual ZoukOut music fest.
South Korean prosecutors have indicted the founder of a cosmetics firm for gambling in jurisdictions outside his homeland. Jeong Un-ho and others known to gamble in Macau and elsewhere...
As Studio City’s opening nears, Macau is speculating on the number of tables that will be allotted for the resort. Galaxy Entertainment won permission to add just 150 new-to-market...
Macau’s Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, Alexis Tam Chong Weng (l.) says he will unveil the local government’s plan to help the territory and its chief industry, gaming,...
Typhoon Mujigae discouraged some Mainland Chinese tourists from streaming into Macau during the annual Golden Week celebration. Mujigae made landfall Sunday, October 4, halfway through the national holiday.
Analysts at Morgan Stanley analysts have revised their GGR forecast for the Philippines for 2016. The new number for the market is $1.6 billion versus the prior estimate of...
The Bombay High Court has asked the Maharashtra government and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis (l.) to implement or trash a 40-year-old law that legalized casinos in the state. A...
A U.S. congressional commission has called for “increased support for democratic reforms in Macau,” particularly human rights reforms. The MSAR responded that the U.S. is “ignoring facts” and has...
Macau and Hong Kong will soon collaborate on a free-trade agreement that will “establish a new, common platform to advance further liberalization and facilitation of trade and investment in...
Chinese officials arrested 13 representatives of several casinos located on South Korea’s Jeju Island and accuses them of illegally advertising and luring Chinese gamblers to the offshore casinos. Chinese...
South Korea’s Jeju Island may be getting a massive foreigners-only casino. Lotte Tour Development Co. announced the proposed Dream Tower (l.) integrated resort project, to be developed by a...
Despite a 61 percent decline in Bloomberry Resorts stock, Enrique Razon (l.), the billionaire behind the Philippine casino operator, says he is confident the company and the industry will...