Maybe it was the heat outside, but the coolly air-conditioned Sands Macau made an estimated operating profit of 20.8 million USD (162.2 million HKD) last month. Las Vegas Sands, the casino's United States-based parent company, released the provisional figure on Tuesday night as part of its own quarterly earnings announcement.

With the acquisition of an 80 percent shareholding in ASTRA GAMES HOLDINGS LTD, the leading-edge gaming equipment manufacturer headquartered in Bridgend near Cardiff, by Novo Gaming UK Ltd the Austrian-based NOVOMATIC Group of Companies continues its successful course of expansion also in the field of manufacturing

Los Angeles (Reuters) - Donald Trump has two messages to himself as he looks to reorganize his debt-laden casino empire. First, "you're fired" and second, "you've got a raise," according to a federal filing on Tuesday.

London’s 2005 International Casino Exhibition (ICE), will be open for business 16 per cent longer than in previous years following a ballot of its exhibitors, a majority of which favoured an earlier opening time of 10.00am on all three days of the show (25, 26, 27 January 2005).

Atlantic City, New Jersey - Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts plans to restructure under a bankruptcy protection plan that would strip Donald Trump of his majority stake in the debt-burdened company.

Port Canaveral - U.S. Coast Guard inspectors, for the second time in less than a month, have shut down a Brevard County operator of gambling cruises, a spokeswoman for the Canaveral Port Authority said Monday night.

Baton Rouge, Lousiana - Casino City, Inc. today filed a complaint against the U.S. Department of Justice in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana. The complaint seeks a declaratory judgment that advertising online casinos and sportsbooks is constitutionally protected commercial free speech under the First Amendment of the United States.

Las Vegas - When they're not competing for space on casino floors, Nevada gaming machine companies often engage in bitter disputes about who was the first to invent a software program or device.

Roger Withers, who boasts a distinguished career in the international leisure, electronic entertainment, lotteries, betting and gaming sectors, has been appointed Chairman of ATE Ltd.

Las Vegas - Las Vegas Sands, Inc. (L.V.S.I.), parent company of The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas and the Sands Macao in The People's Republic of China's Special Administrative Region of Macao, announced that it is considering an initial public offering of its common stock.

Members of the Tourism Committee of the federal Chamber of Deputies are confident that the first negotiations for the installation of casinos in Mexico will begin in 2005, following approval of the gaming law that is now being evaluated.

After the “ghost of Gambelli” showed up in Badem-Württemberg the last time (we reported on both decisions of the Administrative Court of Karlsruhe in edition No. 10 of our newsletter), the requirements set forth by the “Gambelli-decision” were now implemented by a state of the northern part of the republic.