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 […]
Thailand: Thaksin revives gamble on casinos
Thailand’s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has revived his plan to introduce casinos to Thailand as a last-ditch gamble to boost the sagging tourism industry amid increased competition from rival Asian destinations, the tourism and sports minister said Thursday.
Pracha Maleenont said the “one region one casino” initiative was proposed in response to the opening of Hong […]
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.
...read moreBettor Wins $1.3 Million; Net casino Won’t Pay
In the highest-stakes dispute of its kind in the short history of Internet gambling, an American bettor and a Costa Rica-based Internet casino are engaged in a running battle over $1.3 million that the player says he won fair and square and the house claims was amassed using a banned “robot” software program.
The big-money feud […]
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 […]
Star’s kidney stone on sale
UNITED STATES: Going where no actor has gone before, “Star Trek” star William Shatner has sold a piece of his body for charity.
Shatner, famed for playing Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship USS Enterprise in the original “Star Trek” TV series, sold his kidney stone to online casino GoldenPalace.Com for US$25,000. The money […]