Seventeen of the city’s 35 casinos now have airport-style smoking lounges in place to comply with a new prohibition on smoking in public gaming areas. Eleven more have applied...
Smoking is now prohibited in the public gaming areas of the largest casino market in the world under rules that took effect last week in a much stricter manner...
Investors and local officials say resort casinos have an important role to play in the development of several of Vietnam’s offshore islands, including the largest, Phu Quoc in the...
Labor groups in Macau turned up the volume on public protests by casino dealers and other front-line workers for better pay and benefits, calling sickouts and slowdowns during the...
Royal Caribbean Vice President John Tercek recently asked Vietnam's Tourism Minister Hoang Tuan Anh to ask the prime minister to end a 20-year ban on allowing casinos on foreign...
Pachinko parlor operators Niraku Corporation of Japan announced it hopes to raise $100 million in an initial public offering in Hong Kong next year. Founded in 1950, Niraku operates...
Hedge fund operator James Chanos (l), the short-seller known for foreseeing the collapse of Enron, is being sued by Steve Wynn. Chanos suggested to a journalism conference last April...
A leader of the coalition backing casino legalization in Japan’s Diet says he expects it will pass during the current fall session. But Tokyo Governor Yoichi Masuzoe (l.) is...
The Chinese government is reported to be winding down a get-tough campaign targeting abuses within the ruling Communist Party, but at least one gaming analyst warns that the larger...
Construction is under way on Entertainment City’s fourth mega-casino, the $1.1 billion Bayshore City Resorts World. Travellers International Hotel Group, the joint venture that also runs Resorts World Manila...
Heading into this week’s ban on smoking on Macau’s gaming floors, only 12 properties had completed construction of smoking lounges, the government said. Those that haven’t must prohibit all...
Kazuo Okada’s Manila Bay Resorts (l.) is not likely to open in 2015 as announced. The Japanese tycoon’s Philippine subsidiaries are struggling to comply with the country’s land ownership...
Travellers International, the company behind plans for a fourth gaming super-resort at Manila’s Entertainment City, says construction on it will start this year. The $1.1 billion Bayshore City Resorts...
While the government of Vietnam considers whether to end its longstanding ban on a domestic casino market, the principal investor in the country’s largest gaming resort, the Grand Ho...
Contrary to Chairman Steve Wynn’s recent statements, Macau authorities say they’re still investigating a $50 million payment Wynn Resorts made to third parties obtain its Cotai land rights where...
The investment group behind the first casino in Russia’s Far East says “unforeseen obstacles” will prevent the resort, located near Vladivostok, from opening as planned at the end of...
Deutsche Bank warns that revenue growth in Macau’s vaunted mass market could be following the sharp declines witnessed in VIP over the last several months. September’s growth may not...
Five union leaders in Macau have been charged with civil disobedience after months of public protests by casino workers culminated in the threat of a strike during the busy...
“Surprised”—that’s not a word we’d expect to hear when it comes to gaming demand in Macau. But after four straight months of year-on-year revenue declines that’s how sources are...
The fourth resort complex at Manila’s Entertainment City is scheduled to break ground in 90 days and open in 2018. That’s the word from Travellers International, the company behind...