By 
Robert Johnson ·
The $85-million project for the relocation of the Horseshoe Southern Indiana riverboat casino onto nearby land received the necessary green light from the Indiana Gaming Commission on Tuesday. Construction on…
By Robert Johnson ·
A coalition of four Norwegian parties has presented the country’s legislature, the Storting, with a set of measures aimed at better protecting Norsk Tipping’s monopoly over the provision of gambling…
By Robert Johnson ·
As many as 29,319 Belgians self-excluded themselves from gambling (both online and at land-based venues) in 2017, according to a press release published earlier today on the official website of…
By 
Susan Sutton ·
Josephine Teo, the Second Minister for Manpower and Home Affairs of Singapore, said that greater consolidation of the functions of casino regulatory authorities should be considered, especially at a time…
By 
Terry Davis ·
Italy’s gambling regulator Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli (ADM) opened on Thursday the applications submitted by 70 gambling operators seeking to be issued a license to operate in the…
By 
Anthony Huber ·
Aquis Entertainment Group, which currently owns Canberra Casino, made claims that the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government kept the company uninformed for almost a year and a half about the…
By Terry Davis ·
Opponents of the planned closure of the Philippine island of Boracay staged a vehicle caravan on Thursday to protest the move, local news outlet Inquirer reports. Around 50 vehicles covered…
By Robert Johnson ·
Four out of ten loot boxes in video games were found to be violating the Dutch Betting and Gaming Act (Wet op de kansspelen), the local gambling authority, Kansspelautoriteit, said…
By Terry Davis ·
Japan’s ruling coalition will table the Integrated Resort Implementation Bill to the parliament late in April, sources close to the country’s rulers said Wednesday. Chikako Ikeda, member of the ruling…
By Terry Davis ·
Philippine gaming company Leisure & Resorts World Corporation (LRWC) denied reports that plans for the construction of a $500-million integrated resort on the Boracay island have been dropped. The company…
By Robert Johnson ·
Macau casino operator Galaxy Entertainment Group has scrapped plans to build a $500-million gaming resort on Boracay and will seek an alternative site for a project of similar scale, an…
By Susan Sutton ·
The major gambling regulatory body in Italy – the Agenzia delle dogane e dei Monopoli – has rolled out a special nationwide self-exclusion programme aimed at helping problem gamblers. The…
By Terry Davis ·
The Swedish Gambling Authority, Lotteriinspektionen, could have its funding from the government increased as the country is entering the final stages of re-regulating its gambling market. Once the process is…
By Terry Davis ·
Caesars Entertainment Corp. announced today plans to operate two hotels and a beach club in Dubai. The properties will be located on the artificial Bluewaters Island, off the Jumeirah Beach…
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 Terry Davis ·
There is still no agreement or recommendations for a special legislative session in Florida, incoming Senate President Bill Galvano told local media on Friday. It has become known that state…
By Anthony Huber ·
The major player associations in the US – the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), Major League of Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) and National Hockey…
By Anthony Huber ·
Plans for land-based casino gambling legalization have fallen apart in the Chamber of Deputies, and the Senate’s Committee on Consultation, Justice and Citizenship made an unexpected move on the gambling…
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 Anthony Huber ·
The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security (MoPS) revealed that the Police’s Investigation Security Agency in the Phú Tho province has ordered legal proceedings to be initiated against several individuals who…
By Robert Johnson ·
Poland’s new gambling law took effect almost precisely a year ago. And while the legislative framework was touted as one that would liberalize the market and provide international operators with…
By Robert Johnson ·
It has been 12 years since the European Commission first urged the Netherlands to remodel its gambling regulatory framework in a manner that would allow foreign gambling companies to provide…
By Terry Davis ·
Bulgaria-facing gambling operators generated the total amount of BGN3 billion (approximately $1.9 billion) in revenue in 2017, local media reports. The local gambling market more than doubled from a decade…
By Robert Johnson ·
Chicago mayoral candidate Garry McCarthy said this weekend that he would support the addition of a casino at O’Hare International Airport as it would generate new revenue for the cash-strapped…
By Robert Johnson ·
Top South Korean game developers could challenge the recent decision of the country’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) to fine them for misleading customers while promoting purchasable in-game items. News about…
By Robert Johnson ·
The Massachusetts Gaming Commission expects to complete its investigation into the suitability of Las Vegas casino giant Wynn Resorts to build and operate a casino in the state by summer,…
By Robert Johnson ·
News exploded earlier today that Sky Betting and Gaming (SkyBet) has become the latest UK-facing operator to have been reprimanded by the Gambling Commission for social responsibility failures. One of…
By Robert Johnson ·
The Philippine Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) admitted that the proposed construction of a $500-million resort on Boracay contradicts the recently announced decision for the the island’s closure…
By Terry Davis ·
The government of the town of Malay approved last year the $500-million project for a casino resort on the Boracay Island without any prior public consultation, The Philippine Daily Inquirer…
By Robert Johnson ·
The proposed construction of a $500-million integrated resort on Boracay could damage the quality of the sand on the island, a top urban planner told local media. According to Felino…