Vicksburg - Mississippi Bluffs Development LLC, headed in part by Denver developer Paul Bunge of Silver Tip of Mississippi LLC, has applied for a state gaming license to build a 50,000-square-foot casino in Vicksburg. In the application to the Mississippi Gaming Commission, the company estimates having 1,500 slot machines and 35 table games in a casino on one of four parcels of land formerly occupied by a now-defunct chemical company.

Jackson - Treasure Bay Casino can reopen with only 81 slot machines, the Mississippi Gaming Commission ruled on Thursday. The machines will be located in the old Pirate's Den and gamblers will have to walk through a plywood tunnel to get there. The casino plans to be back in business by next week, possibly as early as Monday, even though construction is ongoing.

Sheffield was one of eight shortlisted cities to be in with a chance of hosting a regional casino. And city leaders say they want to make sure any concerns are raised to make sure if a super casino goes ahead potential problems are addressed. Council Leader Jan Wilson said if Sheffield is selected by the Casino Advisory Panel there will be plenty of discussion with residents.

The Caribbean country of Antigua and Barbuda has asked for consultations with Washington over U.S. restrictions on Internet gambling, a step toward establishing a WTO panel to investigate whether the laws comply with international trade rules, according to a document made public Tuesday.

Riverwind, to become the state’s largest gaming casino, is on schedule to be completed and operating in mid-July. The 219,000-square-foot casino, just across the river from Norman on Highway 9 West, will be the 18th gaming facility owned and operated by the Chickasaw Nation. Chickasaw Nation officials said Riverwind is 80 percent built. More than 950 of the 1,874 employees needed to run it have been hired.

New Zealand-listed casino operator Sky City Entertainment is viewed as a possible buyer of Australian gaming assets worth up to NZD 1 billion. Goldman Sachs JBWere analyst Marcus Curley said SkyCity would be "one of the main potential acquirers" of the gaming businesses of Queensland-based Unitab, The Dominion Post reported today. Sky City shares closed at NZD 5.37 last night.

With its decision of 6 June 2006 (case no. 11 Ds Js 21918/04), served today, the County Court of Ravensburg refused to open main proceedings against the accused for having transferred sporting bets to an operator licensed in another EU Member State. In these proceedings an agent represented by attorney-at-law Martin Arendts, ARENDTS ANWÄLTE (www.gaminglaw.de), was accused for aiding and abetting illegal gambling. The Court refused to open main proceedings on the grounds that the current legal situation was not compatible with Community law and therefore the provision of Art. 284 German Criminal Code could not be invoked due to the primacy of Community law.

Las Vegas -- Global Gaming Expo (G2E), a joint venture of the American Gaming Association (AGA) and Reed Exhibitions, today announced its acquisition of the Asian Gaming Expo from the Australasian Gaming Machine Manufacturers Association (AGMMA). The Asian Gaming Expo, which currently is comprised of the largest casino gaming equipment trade exhibition in the Asian region and the Asian Gaming Expo Conference, will be renamed G2E Asia and will feature a unique perspective on the latest trends within the growing Asian gaming market.

Executives of the Isle of Capri corporate office in Biloxi, Mississippi, have announced that a year from now, they will cease operations in Grand Bahama. Jill Haynes, director of Corporate Communication, said the purpose for terminating operations on June 1, 2007 is to enable the company to focus more on its core properties in the United States.

Scotland's first classroom for casino croupiers launched in Glasgow today - boosting the city's bid to become Britain's gaming capital. The training centre, in St Enoch Square, is modelled on US-style casino schools. Bosses of the Glasgow firm which has set up the centre want to give people the skills they need to become top-flight casino workers.

One of the UK's leading experts on gambling yesterday called for the government's advisory panel to allow 11 supercasino licences. Professor Peter Collins, an eminent academic, criticised the current policy which allows just one regional casino in the UK. The government's advisory panel will shortly decide the location of the sole regional or resort casino. Glasgow is widely regarded as a front runner in the selection process.

Britain is not alone in seeing the potential economic benefits of enticing foreign tourists to part with their money at the roulette wheel. In Japan, MPs are about to attempt an overhaul of the country's strict gambling laws that would pave the way for the construction of a Japanese version of the super-casino.