Melco Crown Entertainment’s City of Dreams Manila will open its doors next month, with a grand opening set for the first quarter of 2015. The $1 billion-plus super-resort will...
SJM Chief Executive Ambrose So (l.) has added his voice to the chorus of pessimism being heard in Macau when it comes to gaming revenue for the rest of...
Singapore’s Resorts World Sentosa reported a sharp fall-off in VIP play in the third quarter, a market-wide slump that is also impacting rival Marina Bay Sands. Revenue was down...
Opposition appears to have doomed Japan’s casino legalization bill in the current session of the Diet, exploiting political weaknesses of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (l.). Reports are that backers...
Solaire Resort & Casino, the first of Manila’s four Entertainment City megaresorts, has found its VIP legs and is slated this month to open a second hotel tower and...
The state of Andhra Pradesh on India’s Bay of Bengal coast is considering applications from several operators seeking licenses for casinos in the state. The industry isn’t legal there,...
Fitch Ratings Agency says things will get worse for Marina Bay Sands (l.) and Resorts World Sentosa before they get better. Chinese patronage has fallen, and that’s hurting...
If Asian gaming is in the throes of a boom, it could be the Philippines making the most noise. Investment bank J.P. Morgan sees demand in the island nation...
Casino workers in Macau say their employers are not obeying the government’s new ban on smoking in public gaming areas. Instead, the casinos are redesignating high-limit mass-market tables as...
Malaysian tycoon Vincent Tan (l.) isn’t getting the casino he wants in his home country, so he’s looking abroad, and in a big way, to possible gaming resorts on...
A new report by investment bank Standard Chartered says South Korea will authorize as many as three more resort casinos for a special economic zone around Incheon International Airport....
Nepal’s leading hotel operators want the government to move fast to resolve tax disputes with the Himalayan state’s casinos. The industry was shut down earlier this year over unpaid...
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa (l.) likes casinos, but his political opposition and the island nation’s influential Buddhist leaders don’t. He’s pitching a higher tax rate and an entrance...
Caesars Entertainment has shaken up the Philippines with plans to invest $1 billion in a resort casino at Manila’s international airport (l.). It would mean a sixth major gaming...
Sands China followed up a strong third-quarter performance with news that its $2.7 billion Parisian Macao on Cotai could open, in part, before the end of 2015. Good news...
Chinese tourists love South Korea’s Jeju island—maybe too much, says the island’s governor, Won Hee-ryong (l.). Plans are to put the brakes on “reckless development,” and new casino projects...
Massive growth in the Chinese casino hub is colliding head-on with an acute labor shortage, and the result is that operators ’costs are soaring. New research by Morgan Stanley...
Vietnam’s largest island, Phu Quoc, is developing rapidly, and the government says a resort-scale casino is just the thing to keep the momentum going. With upwards of 3 million...
Myanmar’s new civilian rulers are pushing foreign tourism to help the Southeast Asian nation’s development economically, and casinos are now seen as an important tool in that effort. A...
Macau welcomed more than 900,000 visitors during the popular Golden Week holiday, a new record. But that didn’t translate into gaming revenue, which analysts say fell steeply in comparison...