By 
Jovana Vukovic ·
Rising geopolitical tensions between China and the United States are casting a shadow over Macau’s economic prospects for 2025, as experts caution that retaliatory tariff measures are likely to have…
By 
Filip Radulovic ·
Macau is gearing up for a major influx of visitors as the Chinese New Year (CNY) holiday kicks off on January 29. With new economic stimulus measures and expanded visa…
By Filip Radulovic ·
Sands China Ltd., a premier casino and resort operator in Macau, has announced a strategic partnership with Agoda, a leading digital travel platform. The collaboration aims to enhance international tourism…
By 
Terry Davis ·
The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC) has found that Crown Casino in Melbourne facilitated illegal funds transfers from China that produced some A$32 million in revenues for the…
By Terry Davis ·
On Tuesday, December 21st, 2021 the National Hockey League has decided to once again skip out on the 2022 Winter Olympic Games from Beijing, China due to health and safety…
By Terry Davis ·
Flutter Entertainment-owned online poker operator PokerStars is reportedly no longer accepting players from China, Macau, and Taiwan as its parent organization is looking to switch off black markets. Online poker…
By Terry Davis ·
The People’s Bank of China has been assigned the “major political mission” to clamp down on payment processors servicing online gambling operators, according to a notice issued late last week…
By Terry Davis ·
Former Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya denied over the weekend to have received JPY1 million in cash from a Chinese online sports lottery operator involved in a casino bribery scandal,…
By Terry Davis ·
Tesla boss Elon Musk likes to stir the pot every once in a while. And a new Tesla over-the-air software update that will give Chinese users not one but two…
By Terry Davis ·
Around 120,000 Chinese nationals have departed Cambodia since news about the soon-to-be-implemented ban on online gambling first emerged last month, local news outlets report. The Southeast Asian country’s online gambling…
By Terry Davis ·
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said earlier this week that he was unwilling to ban online gambling, despite China’s pleas for a crackdown on the sector that is known to be…
By Terry Davis ·
China praised the Philippines for its recent decision to stop accepting license applications for online gambling operations and encouraged the country to take it a step further and introduce an…
By Terry Davis ·
Multiple new casinos spring up in Cambodia in 2018 due to inflow of Chinese gamblers, government statistics show Cambodia issued 52 casino licenses in 2018, bringing the overall number of…
By 
Robert Johnson ·
Chinese group reveals $100-million integrated resort scheme, eying expansion to the Philippines Cagayan Special Economic Zone A Chinese group has expressed interest in building a $100-million casino resort in the…
By Robert Johnson ·
Apple has reportedly pulled thousands of gambling apps from its Chinese App Store after facing media backlash for failing to prevent Chinese customers from being exposed to banned content. State-controlled…
By Terry Davis ·
The Jeju Shinhwa World integrated resort located on South Korea’s Jeju Island has raked in KRW369.4 billion (approximately $327.7 million) in revenue since its grand opening in February, local news…
By 
Susan Sutton ·
The International Monetary Fund expects Macau to become the richest place in the world by 2020, overtaking oil-rich Qatar as the jurisdiction with the highest GDP. Meanwhile, the trade war…
By Robert Johnson ·
Six Chinese nationals were detained in Thailand for the provision of illegal gambling services on the territory of the country in the latest wave of raids conducted by Thai police.…
By Robert Johnson ·
Chinese police have arrested more than 540 individuals for their alleged involvement in an illegal online betting operation that accepted bitcoin only to avoid regulatory and legal pitfalls. The case…
By Robert Johnson ·
Chinese police busted an illegal online gambling ring in the city of Shenzhen, local news outlets report citing information provided by local authorities earlier today. The Nanshan District police carried…
By Susan Sutton ·
Last week, casino industry experts refuted rumors that the island of Hainan, also known as “China’s Hawaii”, is set to become the next casino hub in the country. Still, they…
By Terry Davis ·
Tourism statistics from the past decade indicate that there has been an exponential growth in the number of outbound trips from China. While a growth of a massive scale is…
By Robert Johnson ·
China announced plans to expand gambling in Hainan in a bid to help its ailing southernmost province. The planned expansion will include the development of horse racing and of an…
By Susan Sutton ·
Hainan, often called China’s Hawaii, has been an attractive location for investments in recent years. But beyond the popular beach resort destination, the southern island is also seen as the…
By Robert Johnson ·
The Chinese government is mulling the legalization of certain forms of gambling on the Hainan Island, Bloomberg reported citing sources familiar with the ongoing discussions. The move would strip Macau…
By Terry Davis ·
MGM China Holdings, subsidiary of Las Vegas casino giant MGM Resorts International, said in a Thursday filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that it would delay the opening of…
By Robert Johnson ·
Major Chinese contractor is being sued in the New York Supreme Court over allegations that it delayed knowingly and intentionally the construction of an integrated resort in Nassau, the Bahamas,…
By Robert Johnson ·
The first group of Crown Resorts employees, who were arrested last October for the illegal promotion of casino gambling in Mainland China, was released earlier today, Reuters reported. Ten of…
By Robert Johnson ·
Mainland China VIP casino customers lost around $665 million (A$875 million) at Crown Resorts casinos during the previous financial year, court filings from the Shanghai Baoshan district court showed. Obtained…
By Terry Davis ·
Crown Resorts employees who were detained in mid-October 2016 in China for the illegal promotion of gambling services were given nine- to ten-month sentences by the Baoshan District Court. Last…