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Asian casinos countries

As gambling laws ease and the popularity of legal gambling increases, more and more Asian countries with casinos are popping up. Although Macau has been making headlines as the new gambling capital of the world, there are more Asian countries with casinos than just Macau. Still, Macau casinos are the most well-known of all the Asian countries with casinos. Macau has allowed gaming for the past 150 years, but only since control of the colony reverted from the Portuguese to the Chinese in 1999 has its popularity as a gambling hot spot soared.
In 2002, the Chinese government opened up the gaming industry to casino operators based outside of Macau, resulting in casino revenues which have now surpassed those of Las Vegas.
Nearly all the countries in Asia have taken notice of Macau’s success and efforts to legalise casino gambling are now creating strong interest in these countries. Singapore has since been the first to take action, legalising casino gambling at the end of 2006 and issuing two gaming licenses. South Korea and the Philippines have highly regulated but well-established casino gambling available, with expansion already in place for the next few years. Malaysia also has a well-established casino, Genting Highlands Resort, which for many years was the only casino in the country and the largest casino in the world. It has since had a facelift and is now an integrated resort known as Resorts World Genting. Since Malaysia borders Thailand, many of the casino’s customers are Thai.
Cambodia now also has several casinos, with Vietnam quickly catching up too. It is evident that Asia is fast becoming a gambling destination hot spot, and there seems to be no signs of that slowing down in the near future.