The company immortalized in The Whos 1969 song, "Pinball Wizard," has turned a wizened 75 — and perhaps more importantly turned the corner in its retu....
[click here to read more]2007-06-19
Costs nightmare for Packers City of Dreams casino
JAMES Packers Macau gaming joint venture, Melco PBL Entertainment, has taken on more debt to help fund climbing construction costs for its City of Dre....
[click here to read more]2007-06-19
CASINO PLAN FLOATS INTO PLACE
Workers are seaming together pieces of a new Horseshoe casino platform, after the last two of six modules were floated into the Hammond Marina.The com....
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Five months after act passed, casino regulations still to be formulated
Exactly five months after the government used its majority to rush an amendment to legalise casino gambling through Parliament, despite resistance fro....
[click here to read more]2007-06-19
Bets back on for casino
MANCHESTERS supercasino bid is back on track after a legal challenge claiming new casinos would be unfair to existing venues was thrown out.The Britis....
[click here to read more]2007-06-19
New gaming deal could give Ontario natives $2.5-billion
Ontarios aboriginal communities could get $2.5-billion over the next 20 years under a new proposed deal to share revenue from provincial lotteries and....
[click here to read more]2007-06-19
Casinos lift ban against software pioneer
Harrahs casinos has lifted its ban against the man who wrote the first version of Microsoft Word. Richard Brodie had written in his blog last month th....
[click here to read more]2007-06-12
Ballys dealers approve union by wide margin
Casino dealers at Ballys Atlantic City voted emphatically in favor of forming a union Sunday in what both sides considered a pivotal vote in the union....
[click here to read more]2007-06-04
Govt against casinos
MINISTER in the Ministry of Finance, Conrad Enill, reaffirmed the Government’s opposition to casino gambling as he moved an umbrella Finance Bill in t....
[click here to read more]2007-06-04
B.C. lotto president fired
The president of the British Columbia Lottery Corp. has been fired after a week of criticism over lax security measures to ensure that B.C. lottery wi....
[click here to read more]2007-06-04
Tourism and Gaming
One of the tasks that I always liked as a business reporter covering major public casino operators was listening in to the companies quarterly confere....
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Smoking Ban Now Extends To Casinos
Its official. Colorado casinos will be going smoke-free on Jan. 1Gov. Bill Ritter signed that bill into law, among 14 other measures, Friday afternoon....
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All bets are off for Solihull casino plans
Solihulls casino plans are under further threat after the Government insisted they could not go ahead until the issue of a "supercasino" is settled.It....
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Where have the lottery millions gone?
Its been said that, statistically, one has a greater chance of being struck by lightning than of winning the national lottery. But every week, million....
[click here to read more]2007-06-04
