The New South Wales (NSW) government led by Premier Michael Baird announced in July 2016 that it planned to shutdown the state’s greyhound racing industry after a special report commissioned by the government revealed that animal cruelty was prevale...

Crown Resorts announced in June 2015 that it planned to break up its casino empire by separating its international business from its domestic operations and began discussions with the Australian government and regulators over the proposed split. Cro...

Hong Kong based Acquis Entertainment, the parent company of the Canberra Casino had given Clubs ACT, Canberra Raiders and Richard Farmer, the clubs lobbyist until July 20 to withdraw statements the group are calling defamatory, inflammatory and dece...

The Reef Hotel Casino located in Cairns will experience a big drop in profits this year thanks to recent renovations. The Reef Casino Trust is reporting that the casino will see a hit of $3 million which drops the distributable profit to $12 million...

In Australia, casino giant Crown Resorts Limited has reportedly been given permission to build a 90-story skyscraper next door to its Crown Melbourne complex that will house 388 six-star hotel rooms along with some 708 apartments. According to a rep...

Best Sunshine International, Ltd. (BSI) is planning for the future in Saipan with an eye toward beginning to open Phase I of their permanent casino project prior to Chinese New Year 2017 (January 27– February 2, 2017) with a casino and some amenitie...

As eSports become more popular among gamblers, casinos are beginning to take advantage. Crown Casino of Melbourne has announced they will be hosting a tournament in the eSports genre based on the popular game Call Of Duty. The tournament will take p...

The Wrest Point casino in the state of Tasmania is the oldest casino in Australia and also the only casino to legally operate in the state. Owned by the Federal Group, the casino has enjoyed a gambling monopoly for a number of years but has been con...

In the Commonwealth Of The Northern Mariana Islands, months of uncertainty could be at an end after a former investor in the shuttered Tinian Dynasty Hotel And Casino was granted a conditional operating licence to re-open the venue. According to a r...

A CNMI lawmaker in Tinian and the director of US-based Bridge Investment Group were quick to defend their positions on the heels of a ‘letter of concern’ penned to the Commonwealth Ports Authority (CPA) by a U.S. Department of Defense (D...