Extra Slots at Queen’s Wharf?

Echo Entertainment, which recently won its bid to expand its Queens Wharf property (l.) in downtown Brisbane, is reviewing plans for new gaming space at the $2 billion integrated...

Published August 17, 2015

Discovery Completes Canberra Buy

Discovery Resources, soon to be known as Aquis Entertainment, has completed its acquisition of Casino Canberra. The company under new Chairman Tony Fung will upgrade the casino with new...

Published August 17, 2015

Casino Agreement Will Benefit British Columbia First Nation

The Musqueam Indian Band will receive $8.5 million in lease revenue over three years when Paragon Gaming's $600 million Parq Casino and Hotel opens in late 2016. Located next...

Published August 17, 2015

Brazil: No to Legal Sports Bets

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (l.) has vetoed legislation that would have authorized legal sports betting. Though Rousseff signed the so-called “MP Football bill,” she vetoed dozens of clauses including...

Published August 17, 2015

$40 Million Cascades Casino To Open

The $40 million Cascades Casino, set to open August 19 in Kamloops, British Columbia, will offer 500 slots, 18 table games and three poker tables, plus three restaurants and...

Published August 17, 2015

Baha Mar Protests Government Action

Baha Mar Ltd. has issued a statement decrying the Bahamian government’s plan to take over the stalled $3.5 billion project and liquidate the current operating company. The move came...

Published August 10, 2015

Second Gold Coast Casino in the Works

Queensland has approved Chinese-backed ASF Consortium’s plan to develop an integrated resort on state-owned land adjacent to Sea World. A planned cruise ship terminal (l.) has been shelved. The...

Published August 10, 2015

Echo Ups Pokie Count in Brisbane

Echo Entertainment, which just beat out Crown Resorts to win Brisbane’s second casino license, may install an additional 1,000 poker machines at the planned $2 billion Queen’s Wharf development.

Published August 10, 2015

Sun International Opens Columbian Casino

South Africa-based Sun International has opened its $30 million Sun Nao Casino in Cartagena. The city, located on the Caribbean coast of northern Colombia, welcomed almost 3 million tourists...

Published August 10, 2015

Crown Submits Sydney Plan

It’s been almost a year since James Packer’s Crown Resorts was approved to develop a VIP gaming resort at Sydney Harbor. Now the Australian operator has finally submitted plans...

Published August 3, 2015

Macau Legend to Build Cape Verde Casino

Macau Legend Development will build an integrated resort and gaming complex in Cape Verde on Santiago Island. The Cape Verde government has granted the company a 75-year land lease...

Published August 3, 2015

Brisbane Sets Cap for VIPs

A new multibillion-dollar casino resort project (l.) in Brisbane, Australia, recently awarded to the market’s current sole license-holder, Echo Entertainment, will pull out all the stops to bring in...

Published August 3, 2015

MP: End Tasmanian Monopoly

Anti-gaming Aussie MP Andrew Wilkie (l.) has called for a review of the casino operator Federal Group, which now holds a gaming monopoly in the Australian state of Tasmania....

Published August 3, 2015

Big Losses in Victorian Poker

Bettors in the Australian state of Victoria lost more than $2.5 billion on the state’s poker machines in the most recent fiscal year. The highest losses were incurred in...

Published August 3, 2015

Bahamas PM to Take Over Baha Mar

Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie (l.) says he will take over Baha Mar, an unfinished multibillion-dollar casino resort in the capital city of Nassau. The $3.5 billion Baha Mar...

Published July 27, 2015

Is Havana the Next Macau?

With the U.S.-Cuba embargo at an end, the gaming industry may be looking at the island as a potential casino destination. In the pre-Castro era, Havana was known as...

Published July 27, 2015

Falls Mayor: Woodbine Expansion Bad for Casinos

The mayor of Niagara Falls, Canada, fears the city’s share of gaming revenues at Falls properties including Fallsview (l.), could be cut drastically if Ontario proceeds with plans to...

Published July 27, 2015

More than Two Dozen Casinos for Mexico

The president of Mexico’s gaming regulatory body ASPJAC has announced that 25 new casinos will be developed in the country. The total investment will reach $300 million to $375...

Published July 27, 2015

Brazil OKs Draft Sports Betting Bill

Brazil’s Senate has approved draft legislation that would create a regulatory framework for fixed-odds sports betting. The legislation must also be OK’d by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

Published July 27, 2015

AUSTRAC v. Tabcorp

The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, the country’s anti-money laundering agency, has filed a civil action against Tabcorp Holdings Ltd., accusing the firm of inadequate compliance.

Published July 27, 2015