Thailand will form a new committee to consider legalized gaming, including casinos. A legal industry would capture domestic gamblers who now cross the border to play in Cambodia, Laos...
Macau Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng (l.) says digital technologies will speed the city’s fiscal diversification. The Beijing government has ordered the casino hub to move beyond its reliance...
The office of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (l.) has ordered the country’s gaming regulator to do anything necessary to get the country removed from a global money-laundering “grey...
In another sign of Macau’s post-pandemic recovery, officials recently tallied more than 105,000 visitor arrivals per day over consecutive days. On a recent holiday weekend, visitation reached levels not...
Macau’s Court of Second Instance has upheld the convictions of former Suncity CEO Alvin Chau (l.) and other Suncity employees and also increased the damages they must pay for...
Hong Kong-listed Paradise Entertainment is pursuing green businesses in addition to its core focus on gaming. The company provides casino management services and also runs a satellite casino in...
Philippine politician Albee Benitez wants Macau gaming operator Galaxy Entertainment to rejoin a plan to develop a $500 million casino resort on the island of Boracay. The Macau concessionaire...
The Macau government has posted a total of MOP$45.8 billion (US$5.68 billion) in gaming taxes through September, a 203 percent increase over the same period in 2022.
A multibillion-dollar money laundering case won’t have a lasting negative impact on Genting Singapore, according to a Maybank analyst. But others say the scandal proves the city-state is vulnerable...
Alejandro Tengco (l.) of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp., has confirmed the agency’s plan to divest of 41 casinos by 2028. Before the sale, PAGCOR will work to...
Macau Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng (l.) says he’s satisfied with efforts by the city’s Big 6 casino operators to bring more non-gaming amenities to the Chinese SAR.
The United Nations has expressed reservations about casinos in Southeast Asia’s Mekong region, concerned they are channels for organized crime entities to “traffic various illicit goods and launder money.”
Macau officials have announced that Big 6 operator SJM Resorts will undertake improvements of Avenida Almeida Ribeiro, a main peninsula thoroughfare, and upgrade the Macau Palace, its “floating casino.”
International Entertainment Corp. of Hong Kong has signed a provisional agreement to develop a new casino resort in Manila. The property would take advantage of robust post-Covid travel to...
The Philippines remain on the “grey list” of the Financial Action Task Force, and must provide “strict enforcement” of anti-money laundering controls in casinos to get off the global...
U.S.-based special purpose acquisition company 26 Capital has liquidated following the collapse of a planned merger with Philippines integrated resort Okada Manila (l.).
The Philippine Department of Finance will help the country’s gaming regulator sell off its casinos. Finance Undersecretary Catherine Fong says it’s “very feasible” that the assets will be ready...
Gaming regulators in Macau have decreed that citywide casino operators can partner with a maximum of 50 junket runners in 2024. It’s the latest directive in an effort to...
Osaka, Japan’s integrated resort is finally a go, with final approvals by the country’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. The MGM Resorts-led project will be the first...
Non-compliant slot machines now on gaming floors in the Philippines will not have to be removed or updated in accordance with the regulator’s new Technical Standards for EGMs. But...