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Second Life bans gambling
The virtual world “Second Life” has banned gambling, a cautious legal maneuver that could dent revenue and spark anger among fans.
Although “Second Life” is home to large corporations, such as Toyota and Intel, which have virtual advertisements and marketing promotions, thousands of gambling shops dominate commerce in the online world.
Virtual characters, known as “avatars,” may […]
Russia: Casino director shot dead
The director of a Vladivostok casino, Yevgeny Poddubny, was shot dead on October 11 in an attack which also seriously injured the casino owner and two employees.
Poddubny was director of the Ilona casino in Amursky Zaliv Hotel, on Vladivostok’s seafront.
Shots were fired at the group next to their car on Verkhnaya-Portovaya Street at around 1 […]
Philadelphia: Deck stacked against Philly casino foes
Surging gun violence never got Kathy O’Neill to think about moving her family out of Philadelphia. Neither did an ever-struggling school system.
Only when plans popped up for two towering casinos — one just blocks from her South Philadelphia home — did O’Neill and her husband decide they needed to do something.
“We used to say, ‘I […]
Singapore casinos no threat to Macao, HK’
MACAO: China’s top tourism officials assured Macao and Hong Kong yesterday that Singapore’s decision to open two casinos won’t lead to a decline in the number of mainlanders visiting the two SARs.
China National Tourism Administration Vice-Chairman Gu Zhaoxi said the number of mainlanders travelling overseas has been soaring in the recent years at a pace […]
WTO rules against US online gambling
A World Trade Organisation panel said that the United States had failed to comply with a previous ruling ordering it to open up the multi-billion dollar cross-border internet gambling industry.
The fresh ruling about US compliance with a 2005 WTO judgement followed a renewed challenge from tiny Antigua and Barbuda, which claimed that Washington had not […]
Gambling Billionaire Seeks $1.5Bln
Oleg Boiko, who controls Eastern Europe’s largest gaming company, said his businesses planned to raise $1.5 billion this year to fund expansion in gambling, retail and real estate.
Ritzio Entertainment Group will seek $500 million to buy gaming chains in Europe and Latin America, while the Finstar holding company will look for $1 billion of new […]
Gambling on Success in Armenia: Russian firm to build casino complex near Yerevan city
According to media reports from Russia, Storm International, the second largest company in Russian gambling business, will invest $300 million to build a casino and a network of gambling halls in Armenia.
Lavrenti Gubin, Press Secretary of Storm International, says the company will build a 15-hectare gambling complex called “Shangri-La-Yerevan”.
The company aims to build a five […]
Oasis Casino: gambling succeeds where peace fails
The drive from Jerusalem down to Jericho is not more than 25 minutes but it feels as if one is traveling to a totally different country.
The newly-opened Oasis Casino stands just opposite the Palestinian refugee camp of Aqabat Jaber. But on the map that details the route to the casino, the camp simply disappeared.
The first […]
Israel bans casino ads
An Israeli court ruled that advertisement of casinos in Israel is prohibited, even if the casinos are located outside Israel, Israel News Wire reported. The ruling came in response to a request to place an ad for an Egyptian casino in an Israeli airport, the report said.
Grand casino work starts
MACAO: MGM Grand Paradise Ltd, a joint venture between Macao casino-owner Pansy Ho and world gambling giant MGM Mirage, yesterday launched the construction of MGM Grand Macao, a grand casino resort.
The MGM Grand Macao, a 600-room, 28-floor hotel set to open in the later part of 2007, occupies a prime waterfront site in the SAR’s […]