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The final six of a total of 16 Crown Resorts employees are set to be released from Chinese detention centers on Saturday, according to local media reports. The Australian casino operator’s Head…
Canadian gambling giant The Stars Group posted on Wednesday its first financial report since the completion of its rebranding. In general, the financial picture presented by the company was quite bright with…
The gambling crackdown initiated by Chinese President Xi Jinping revealed to the Macau government the special administrative region’s high reliance on its casino industry. And it also showed the casino industry’s great…
The Australian Senate approved earlier today the Interactive Gambling Amendment Bill 2016, which would generally place a nationwide ban on the provision of online casino and poker services. The bill’s passage through…
The proposed prohibition of the provision of binary options services from within Israel has come a step closer to realization, financial and business news outlet Finance Magnates reported on Monday. A draft…
By Terry DavisThe Government of Malta will strive to improve the island nation’s GDP growth from last year by reaching a 6.5% real-term economic growth by the end of 2017. In 2016, a GDP…
A company, tasked with handling various trademarks on behalf of US President Donald Trump, has received approvals for the development of the Trump brand on the territory of Macau, the only place…
By Terry DavisBritish Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has reportedly blocked attempts for a fixed-odds betting terminals crackdown, The Daily Mail wrote on Saturday. The story was later on branded as 'fake news'…
The Greek Ministry of Finance proposed on Friday a reduction in the number of video lottery terminals (VLTs) local operator OPAP should be allowed to roll out in the country to 25,000…
The government of Antigua and Barbuda issued a statement to congratulate Calvin Ayre shortly after the gambling businessman saw all felony charges brought against him by the US dropped. Mr. Ayre was…
A Hong Kong billionaire investor is reportedly considering the possibility to build an integrated resort in Australia’s Gold Coast region, The Gold Coast Bulletin reported earlier today citing an unnamed resource. Reports…
Canadian online gambling company The Stars Group has moved its office in Malta to a new location, local media has reported. The new office was inaugurated by Joseph Muscat, who was recently…
A pro-gambling legislator from New Jersey is planning to introduce a bill that would allow the state to share player pools with Nevada and Delaware as well as with regulated online gambling…
By Terry DavisPublic hearings in relation to the recently released recommendations for the regulation of Japan’s young casino industry will take place in nine Japanese cities, The Japan Times reported earlier today. Japanese officials…
Shortly after Indian news outlets reported that the country’s Sports Ministry has initiated talks over the potential legalization of sports betting activities beyond horse racing, it has become known that an official…
Canadian online gambling giant Amaya announced earlier today that it has completed its planned rebranding as The Stars Group and the relocation of its headquarters from Montreal to Toronto. It also revealed…
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and her administration rejected on Monday the A$3-billion plan for the construction of an integrated resort on Gold Coast’s Southern Spit. The state’s top official cited community’s pleads…
By Terry DavisAnalysts believe that major casino operators could reduce or even back off from investment plans for the construction of integrated resorts in Japan, after an advisory panel recommended on Monday too strict…
Australian casino operator Crown Resorts has once again found itself at the heart of a serious controversy after a former employee has brought the company to court, claiming that she had witnessed…
By Terry DavisCaesars Entertainment Corp. has penned an agreement with ASF Consortium that could potentially see the Las Vegas-headquartered gambling company operate the casino portion of a A$3-billion resort in Australian tourist city Gold…
Osaka officials are planning to ramp up efforts for the implementation of their plan to win one of the casino resort licenses, set to be issued by the Japanese government, and the…
By Terry DavisOnline poker room PokerStars is set to introduce new Time to Act settings for ring games in a response to complaints about the unnecessarily long time some players are taking before acting.…
By Terry DavisMajor casino operator Caesars Entertainment Corp. and leisure company Caesars Acquisition Company announced that shareholders have approved their proposed merger that will help Caesars’ main operating unit to eventually exit bankruptcy. The…
Latin America has been among the regions considered to be holding huge potential in terms of online gambling, and multiple international gambling companies have spotted that potential and have directed their investment…
The Armenian government approved last week proposed changes to the country’s casino regulations and the way casino investors are licensed, Russian gambling news outlet News of Gambling has reported citing local media.…
A first casino license may be issued by the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission (BCGC), as the regulatory body has received a “substantially completed” application for licensure. Hamilton Princess & Beach Club, a…
By Terry DavisOnline sportsbook operator SportPesa has reportedly filed a lawsuit, contesting the Kenyan government’s decision to raise annual gambling taxes to 35% on net revenue. Here it is important to note that gambling…
Arizona’s Tohono O’odham Nation will finally be able to add Las Vegas-style gambling in its casino property in the area near the city of Glendale, Capitol Media Services has reported for The…
By Terry DavisThe Japanese Supreme Court denied an appeal filed by local pachinko and slot machine manufacturer Universal Entertainment Corp. in relation to its defamation case against news agency Reuters. Two lower courts had…
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has put his signature on a pro-online gambling bill that urges US President Donald Trump and the Congress not to implement a federal ban on this type…
Sports betting seems to be gaining momentum as an important legislative topic around the US, after the US Supreme Court decided to hear New Jersey’s call for the removal of a long-standing…
Officials from the Thừa Thiên-Huế Province in North Central Vietnam have asked the country’s government to give the nod to the addition of a casino to the Banyan Tree Lang Cô integrated…
