World Casino Gaming News

The World Casino News section contains our recent articles and headlines written by the international team. The worldwide group focuses on reporting news from Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, Canada, South Africa, and Central America. Most of the action takes place over in Europe in areas like the UK, Spain, France, and Germany. The next hot bed for international casino news is the Caribbean and Central America. Costa Rica, Antigua, the Bahamas, and several other island nations consider online gaming an economic bread-winner, with support for full legalization, thus a tremendous amount of news to report on. Finally, we always keep a close eye on the tiny island of Macau over in China, a place which claims to have triumphed over Las Vegas as the gambling capital of the world. The news coming from Macau is pretty much non-stop, as are the destination revenues.

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Recent Headlines

1. Stock Maket Online Gambling Opens in Australia
   By Brian Chan on March 10, 2010
   Online gambling operator Centrebet is now featuring wagering on the future performance of the Australian stock market....
2. Casino Gambling Comes to Guyana
   By Brian Chan on February 20, 2010
   Although casino gambling may start in Guyana as soon as this weekend, no Guyanans will be participating....
3. Quebec Minister Says Online Gambling Already Exists
   By Brian Chan on February 18, 2010
   The Finance Minister of Quebec says critics of the province's plan to operate online gambling sites fail to see Internet gambling already exists, only without rules....
4. Singapore Starts Casino Gambling on Chinese New Year
   By Lance Burkhart on February 15, 2010
   Genting Group began gambling operations at its Singapore casino Sunday, on the day of the Chinese New Year....
5. Russian Legal Casino Zone Begins Operation
   By Brian Chan on January 30, 2010
   The first legal casino in Russia since the implementation of a nationwide gambling ban last summer opened Saturday....
6. Isle of Man Eases Online Gambling Regulations
   By Lance Burkhart on January 28, 2010
   Hoping to attract more companies to relocate, the Isle of Man announced it was changing some of its online gambling rules to allow administrative activities by unlicensed operators....
7. Online Casinos Prepare for Super Bowl Onslaught
   By Brian Chan on January 24, 2010
   The two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl will see plenty of gambling at online casinos....
8. US Operators Continue Slide Toward Online Gambling
   By Brian Chan on January 22, 2010
   WMS Gaming announced it was opening a division specializing in online gambling....
9. Tennis Collects from Online Gambling on Australian Open
   By Brian Chan on January 12, 2010
   Tennis is taking the lead in acknowledging the symbiotic nature of sports to gambling by making online gambling operator Betfair a sponsor and accepting a piece of every bet....
10. Greek Online Gambling Monopoly Gets New Leader
    By Brian Chan on January 5, 2010
    Greek gaming company OPAP selected a new CEO, who happens to have experience at Olympian tasks....
11. Genting Casino Beats Sands to Singapore
    By Lance Burkhart on January 4, 2010
    Las Vegas Sands will be a few months behind Genting in opening its new Singapore casino aimed at the Asian gambling market....
12. Smoking Vulture Brains a New African Gambling Tradition
    By Brian Chan on December 30, 2009
    From now on, whenever a gambling or casino patron goes on a hot streak, observers will say, "He's smoking vulture brains!" ...
13. Russia Follows Casino Ban by Exporting Gambling
    By Brian Chan on December 28, 2009
    Russian casino operators have used the country's ban on gambling as a launchpad to open casinos in tiny countries free from gambling regulation....
14. Israeli Online Casino Crackdown Continues
    By Brian Chan on December 26, 2009
    An Israeli court indicted five men accused of operating a series of online casinos within the country's boundaries....
15. Gambling and Strip Clubs Reveal Tiger to be One of Us
    By Lance Burkhart on December 24, 2009
    Revelations that Tiger Woods loves high-stakes gambling and high-end strip clubs only continues to humanize the golf champion....
16. Caribbean Gaming Show 2010 Announcement
    By Angela Bedford on December 22, 2009
    The Caribbean Gaming Show and Conference is set for March 10th and 11th in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic....
17. Las Vegas Sands Looks to Asian Gambling as Future
    By Brian Chan on December 21, 2009
    Sheldon Adelson of Las Vegas Sands is predicting his Asian division will nearly double gambling, retail, and hotel sales next year....
18. World Cup Soccer to Be Sports Betting Event of the Year
    By Brian Chan on December 13, 2009
    The looming World Cup in South Africa promises to be among the biggest sports betting events in gambling history....
19. Online Gambling Merger May Create Industry Giant
    By Lance Burkhart on December 12, 2009
    Online gambling operators bwin and PartyGaming are in exploratory talks over a potential multi-billion dollar merger....
20. Online Casino Technology Prevents Sports Fixing
    By Brian Chan on December 8, 2009
    Fixed matches being exposed in European soccer do not result from licensed online casinos, who use technology to prevent losses to suspicious wagers and bets....