Liverpool              InvestEgate.co.uk
Stanley Leisure Plc - Award of additional Liverpool licence
www.stanleyleisure.co.uk

South Africa & Zimbabwe              AllAfrica.com
Southern Africa: Cross-Border Crime Rising As Economy Sinks

Las Vegas              KLAS-TV.com
Gaming Industry Gets 'Teed Off' at Problem Gambling
www.ncrg.org
www.jcm-american.com

Las Vegas              Las Vegas Sun - Liz Benston
Binion's hoping for 'Net gain - Casino to begin Web poker broadcasts
www.binions.com
www.thebicyclecasino.com

Antigua              Antigua Sun
Govt accused of mishandling gaming issue

Greece & Turkey              Yahoo UK/AFX
Greece's Intralot eying privatisation of Turkish lottery Milli Pinyango
www.millipiyango.gov.tr

London              Yahoo UK/PRNewswire
32Red Plc Announces Agreement to Be Official Club Sponsors of Aston Villa FC for the Next Two Premiership Seasons

London             UK-Wire.com/InvestEgate
Aston Villa plc - Villa announce Internet linkup with new shirt deal
32Red Plc announces conditional agreement to be official club sponsors of Aston Villa FC
www.32redplc.com
www.avfc.co.uk

London             The Glasgow Herald & Ireland Online
Party time as prospect of US online gambling ban fades
Gambling firms hopeful of escaping ban
www.partygaming.com

Blackhawk, Colorado             Yahoo/PRNewswire
Ameristar Casino Debuts in Black Hawk - Formerly Mountain High Casino.
www.ameristar.com/blackhawk
Ameristar/Aztar Corp proposal -  3rd April

Macau             Hong Kong Standard
Timber trader to draw casino revenue

Interesting details about commission on rolling turnover at Sands Macao's Paiza Club.

http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=0628.HK&d=t - Teem Foundation
www.sands.com.mo

Switzerland             Espace.ch/Berner Zeitung
Das Tessin ist das Eldorado der Spieler

No 1 and 2 casinos in Switzerland are Mendrisio (Amazingly only a Class B) and Lugano. Both are located in Southern Cantons and draw large numbers of players from over the Italian border.

www.casinomendrisio.ch
www.casinolugano.ch
 
 

Additional headlines Special tax on gaming machines - Mongolia NYSE Traders Warned About Gambling - Traders Magazine L.V. Advisor: Question of the Day - Hitting on Soft 17 rules.

British Casino license applications
Council applies to open town casino - Sevenoaks, Kent.
Peterborough is vying with 40 other areas to build a multi-million pound casino
Gambling concerns as casino bid goes in - Blackpool.
Casino features in plaza plan - Cannock.
Falkirk bets on winning casino site race

Antigua             Antigua Sun
Hope still for gaming sector despite US resistance
www.antiguagaming.gov.ag

Gaborone, Botswana             AllAfrica.com
Botswana: Fewer Hours for Casinos

Scotland             Christian Today & Glasgow Evening Times
Kirk Opposes Scottish Applications for First Super-Casino
Supercasino would get advisers to stop problem gambling

Las Vegas             Reuters
Casino operator Riviera to go private

Investors perhaps believe there may be a higher bid as RIV closed up 80 cents at $18.93.

Las Vegas             Yahoo/PRNewswire
Riviera Holdings Corporation Agrees to Be Acquired By Investment Group for $17 Per Share In Cash
www.rivierahotel.com

Düdingen, Switzerland             Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Escor hat in Restaurants ausgespielt

Escor Casinos and Entertainment have further reduced the workforce in their Playland division. Slots are now only permitted in Switzerland in the countries 19 licensed casinos.

www.escor.ch

Bern, Switzerland             Liechtensteiner Vaterland, Swissinfo.org & Blick.ch
Schweizer Casinos steigern Umsatz um 14 Prozent
Schweizer Casinos: Die Kugel rollt gut
13,300 Spiel-Süchtige gesperrt! 

The Swiss Casino Federation has announced that gross casino win in 2005 rose 14% to SF874 Million. The number of visitors rising 4.1% to 4.4 million.

www.switzerlandcasinos.ch - Schweizer Casino Verband/Swiss Casino Federation.

London             Yahoo/Reuters
PartyGaming jumps on US gambling bill doubts

Party Gaming and a host of other online betting companies have gained between 3 and 14% in early trading in London

Macau             Washington Post
China's Big Import: Vegas

Washington & Costa Rica             Reuters
BETonSPORTS sees US online gambling ban unlikely
www.betonsports.com

Ipswich             Evening Star
Casino could be on cards for town

Manchester             Daily Telegraph
United refuse to deal as tobacco and gambling worries mount

Moscow             The Moscow Times & ITAR-TASS
City Cracks Down on Gaming
Over 500 gambling outlets to be closed in Moscow shortly

New gaming laws in Moscow are believed to have reduced the number of slot operations to 1,300 over the last 6 months.

British Casino license applications
Developer hopes to beat odds for super casino in Glasgow
Council bets on Straiton for super-casino - Edinburgh
SOUTH Tyneside is to try its luck at becoming home to a new casino complex
Bets are placed in great casino rush - Bradford

Lisbon             Invertia.com
El grupo Estoril Sol invierte 130 millones en el primer casino de Lisboa
www.casinolisboa.pt - Casino Lisboa will open on the 19th April.

Atlantic City             NJ.com/Star-Ledger
Casinos beat odds on profit
State says gang worked casinos

Chile & Poway, California             Marketwire
Thunderbird Resorts, Inc.: Update on Chile and on Over-all Operations
www.thunderbirdgaming.com

Florida             Florida Today
Ban the dumping - Protect coastal waters and beaches by stopping casino-boat sewage discharge
 
 

Additional headlines Slaying suspect's body found at casino - East Chicago Investigators ready case against alleged casino - Austin, Texas. African diplomat tied to gambling pit - Tokyo & Cote d'Ivoire. Online gambling snagging children as young as 9

Vancouver, B.C.             Globe and Mail
Gaming holder complains

Unimaginative headline but an interesting story about Great Canadian Gaming's recent private equity placement.

www.gcgaming.com

Las Vegas             Yahoo/PRNewswire
Bally Technologies Announces Regulatory Approvals for Hot Shot Progressive(TM) Game, S9000, CineVision(TM)
www.ballytech.com/platforms/Cinevision.asp

Mönchengladbach, Germany             Westdeutsche Zeitung
Illegale Wettbüros im Visier der Stadt

Singapore             Yahoo/Dow Jones & Reuters
Genting Intl's Singapore Casino Bid May Involve Universal
Genting taps Universal to help Singapore casino bid
www.gentinginternational.com

Gulf Coast, Mississippi             Clarion-Ledger
6 more casinos to reopen soon
Schedule of reopenings

St. John's, Antigua             PRNewswire
World Poker Exchange Launches 'No Rake' Poker
www.worldpx.com
www.wsex.com

Placier County, California            ABC News
Former Employees Fight to Sue Native American Casino
www.thundervalleyresort.com
 

Scotland & Wales - License applications
Fight on cards for first super casino - Rangers up against 26 rival bids
Casino plans unveiled for Elgin's high street
Three-way fight for Scots Las Vegas
UK 'super-casino' plans - The Scotsman's dedicated section.
Welsh cities square up over super-casino plan

England - License applications
Chips are down for casino bids - Swindon
Panel begins to sift through casino bids - Birmingham
Place your bets for first super casino - Norfolk
Three cities in running to open Las Vegas-style casino - North East (Temp link)
Do we want a casino here? - North Tyneside
Casino Applications - Canterbury, Dartford, Dover, Maidstone, Sevenoaks and Shepway.
 

Iowa            Globe Gazette
Gambling goes live at Diamond Jo Worth
www.diamondjo.com/worth/DiamondWorthWS.html

Washington & Antiqua             Business Week/AP
U.S. accused of flaunting WTO ruling

Larnaca, Cyprus             The Cyprus Mail
‘We won’t allow Pyla casino to go ahead’
www.pokerplayersalliance.org

Washington            San Francisco Chronicle
Poker players fight online gambling ban
www.pokerplayersalliance.org
 
 

Additional headlines Branson may pull out of Lottery bid Japan labels Ivory Coast diplomat 'persona non grata' over illegal gambling Woman slain at casino hotel - East Chicago Estrada denies gambling kickbacks from gangs 1976: Billionaire Howard Hughes dies

Southend            Barnett and Potters Bar Times
Council denies plans to employ gambling counsellors

Phoenix, Arizona            Yahoo/PRNewswire
Aztar Corporation Prepared to Enter Into Discussions With Colony Capital and Ameristar

Astana, Kazahkstan            BBC & Caucaz.com/Regnum
Kazakhs pondering 'desert Vegas'
A new Vegas to emerge in the Kazakh Steppe?

Macau            Hong Kong Standard
Separate listing considered for casino

Melco International and partner PBL may seek a separate listing for their HK$8 billion City of Dreams casino resort.

www.melco.hk.cn
www.mochaslot.com

London            The Conservatives - Press release
There must only be one regional casino pilot, says Swire

Tinian, C.N.M.I.            Pacific Islands Report/Saipan Tribune
New Tinian Hotel and Casino project breaks ground
Tinian gaming agency left out of CNMI casino OK
www.cordish.com
www.bridgepm.com

Vancouver, B.C.            HTZFM.com & Reuters
Gateway Casinos buys Cascades Langley Casino and Hotel for $106.3 million
Gateway Casinos to buy BC casino for C$106.3 mln
www.cascadescasino.ca
www.gatewaycasinos.com

Las Vegas            Yahoo/AP
Ameristar Offers About $1.5B for Aztar - Tops Other Bids

Macau            Yahoo/PRNewswire
115 Premium Retailers Partner With the Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel
www.venetianmacau.com

London & Israel            Yahoo UK/Reuters & AFX
Empire Online still confident of revenue rise
Empire Online profit up 57 pct
http://investors.ep.com

London & Israel            InvestEgate.co.uk
Empire Online Ltd maiden preliminary results for year ended 31st December

London            InvestEgate.co.uk
Pine Ventures plc - Admission to trading on AIM

I won't be rushing to buy shares in this one. A betting website including "Naughty Netball".

www.cheekymoon.com

London            Daily Telegraph & The Times
United twist on £70m deal
United snub gets shirty reply
www.mansion.com

Phoenix, Arizona            Yahoo/PRNewswire
Aztar Corporation Prepared to Enter Into Discussions With Colony Capital and Ameristar
 
 

Additional headlines Sun International buys 424,798 Real Africa shares Johns brothers not linked to betting plunge: manager - Australia Macao casino mogul to open bank in Angola L.V. Advisor: QotD - Faro, what happened to the game ? Bookies' Cash Robbery Con Pair Are Jailed

Bloemfontein, Free State            Dispatch.co.za
4 nabbed after failed heist at Bloemfontein casino

Sun International's Windmill Casino has been open just 4 months.

www.windmillcasino.co.za

Vietnam            Thanhniem News
Vietnam’s casino joint-stock business to auction shares

Hoang Gia International

Macau            Peoples Daily/Xinhua
Macao casino mogul to pass 5 percent of net profit to staff

As part of SJM's IPO package Stanley Ho will give 5% of 2005 profits to staff. He's also announced a 30% pay rise to help retain SJM employees who are increasingly being poached by the other license holders.

Las Vegas            PRNewswire
Ameristar Casinos Submits All-Cash Proposal to Acquire Aztar Corporation for $42 Per Share
www.ameristar.com
www.aztar.com

Newcastle, South Africa & Colorado Springs, CO.            PRNewswire
Century Casinos Announces Closing of Acquisition of Controlling Interest in Second South African Casino
www.centurycasinos.com
www.montevistacasino.co.za

London            Bloomberg
Rank Shares Gain on Blackstone Takeover Speculation
www.rank.com

London            Daily Telegraph
Results flat for London Clubs International

London            UK-Wire.co.uk
London Clubs International plc - Completion of disposal, new banking facilities and trading update
www.lciclubs.com
www.lesambassadeurs.com

London            The Daily telegraph
Residents oppose Stanley's Earls Court casino plans
www.stanleyleisure.com
www.eco.co.uk

London            The Independent
75 authorities spin the wheel for chance to have a casino

Briain - Local authority casino license applications
Manchester 'must' host UK’s first regional casino - Manchester
Southend bids for 'regional casino' - Southend
Blackpool bids for UK's only 'super casino' - Blackpool 30/3
Town aims to hit casino jackpot - Harrogate

Gaza Strip, Palestine            Arutz Sheva & Ynetnews.com
Gaza Casino Destroyed in IDF Bombing
Palestinian casino dream shattered

The AS report has a film of part of the sizeable construction taking a direct hit.

Edinburgh            The Sunday Mail
Exclusive: The Casino Killer

Las Vegas & California            Bloomberg
Traffic to Las Vegas Keeps Los Angeles Gamblers Stuck in Desert

Manchester            News of the World - Temporary link
£60M United Poker deal
www.mansion.com

Tinian, C.N.M.I            Saipan Tribune
New Tinian casino MOA signed

Singapore            Yahoo/Singapore
SINGAPORE PRESS:Genting Confident In Singapore Casino Bid

"Being Asians, we are more reserved. I think we do first, then we talk. I think the American mentality is talk first, then maybe do," :) Gaming floor visitors should not be surprised if Genting wins the bidding for the Marina Bay IR.

Las Vegas & Singapore            Las Vegas Sun
Jeff Simpson analyzes the players in the bid for a Singapore casino

Jeff's Odds. 3 to 2 MGM Mirage, 3 to 1 Harrahs, 8 to 1 LVS & 10 to 1 Genting International.

Melbourne            The Australian
Wave of violence puts casino clubs in doubt
www.crowncasino.com.au
 
 

Press releases  Some site changes being made - Daily PR to be posted here from 3rd April onwards.

 

Additional headlines Robbers target casino again - Missoula, Montana. Agua Caliente Casino names Cooper - Rancho Mirage, California. L.V. Advisor: QotD - Are there any gay hotels or casinos in Las Vegas ?

Fiji            Fiji Times
Church opposes casino plan

Bern            Basler Zeitung
Zahl der Spielsperren in Casinos stark angestiegen

Easter Island & Santiago, Chile            IHT - Interesting story
Casino plan strikes Easter Islanders as latest in long series of calamities
 

Macau            FT.com - Registration required for full story
Melco, PBL plan third casino

Atlantic City            The Press of Atlantic City
In A.C., rumblings of new casino financed by Morgan Stanley

London            InvestEgate.co.uk
Fairground Gaming Holdings plc - Preliminary Results Announcement
www.fairgroundgaming.com

Singapore            Today Online
Harrah's likely to invest about $5b

Easter Island            New York Times
Easter Island Casino Plan Raises Fear of Cultural Erosion
www.islandheritage.org

Fiji            The Fiji Sun
Casino plan for church - Hoteliers vow to give Methodists share of profits 

Las Vegas           Yahoo/Business Wire
Progressive Gaming International Reports Operating Results for Fourth Quarter of Fiscal 2005 - Released Friday at 6.15pm.
www.progressivegaming.net
 

London
Punters set to "back regeneration" at new super-casino

The DCMS announced today that companies bidding for the new super-casino license will have to ensure all customer winnings go for regeneration. "We're very excited about this plan" said a spokesman. "For the first time British casino customers will have the opportunity to play their favourite games safe in the knowledge that every pound they win will be used to regenerate their area".

www.culture.gov.uk/gambling_and_racing/regeneration/billybunters_payup.htm

Miami
They don't do that in Vegas! - Maritime Gambling Act to be strengthened

New shipboard gaming rules are being proposed after increased complaints from Cruiseship casino customers.

Brussels
Numbers on European Roulette wheels to be increased

To bring European wheels into line with those in the U.S. a double 00 will shortly be added. "After many requests from our customers, we will finally be able to give them the convenience of another green number to bet on" said one Casino operator.

http://europa.eu.int/comm/index_en.htm?casinos/helpem_win_more_money.html

London
Call disputed after spot falls off Die

Was it a Seven-Out or a Winner Six?. Boxman maintains that the spot should count, even though it fell off when the die hit the back wall.

www.nevescasino.co.uk
 
 

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