Tim Alper

South Korean casino stocks are set for a bumper second half of 2026, domestic analysts say, with gambling hotspots set to benefit from a surge of 25% in Chinese tourist arrivals.

Lawmakers want Russian casinos to pay heavy fines if they let gambling addicts who have added their names to the country's new “self-prohibition” registry place bets.

MGM Resorts stock has risen in pre-market trading after a news report on Friday suggested the casino operator remains locked in takeover talks with the media billionaire Barry Diller

Macao tourist arrivals continue to rise, in spite of a downturn in casino revenues at many of the special administrative region's top integrated resorts (IRs).

A Michigan judge has reportedly extended a temporary order that bans Kalshi from offering sports contracts in the state.

Chinese police say illegal gamblers are “flocking to” remote mountains and forests to wager on card games and rounds of mahjong.

Chinese police have reported a sharp uptick in illegal gambling on a high-speed version of the classic tile game mahjong.

Douyin, the Chinese TikTok sister app, says it has taken action against 417,000 accounts that promoted or enabled gambling as it steps up its World Cup crackdown.

World Cup betting may be booming in the US , but the latest Illinois Gaming Board figures show that pre-tournament sports wagers fell over 10% year-on-year in May to just over $1.1 billion.

Prediction market operators appear to hold all the high cards in their battle with sportsbook operators.