Casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson, who recently launched the world's biggest gambling complex, may have given up on hopes of establishing a casino in Israel, but Tourism Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch on Monday said he plans to push hard for a legal gambling house in the southern city of Eilat. Aharonovitch made the announcement Monday at a meeting of the Knesset Economics Committee where he presented the ministry's work plan for 2008.

Koronadal City (MindaNews) -- Officials in Sarawak, Malaysia have agreed with their Philippine counterparts to touch base with Ekran Berhad for the possible reopening of the mothballed multi-billion peso Samal Casino Resort. South Cotabato Gov. Daisy Avance Fuentes, chair of the recently concluded 2nd BIMP-EAGA Chief of Ministers, Governors and Heads of Local Government Forum here...

Yarmouth's Pleasure Beach boss Albert Jones is to lay down what he hopes will be a winning hand in the battle to bring gaming on a Las Vegas scale to the resort. Residents will be given their first real glimpse of his bold plans for a GBP 35m casino and leisure complex, creating about 1,000 jobs, at a public exhibition in the town next week. The centre, to be called The Edge, would revitalise a strip of wasteland on South Denes between the Pleasure Beach and the outer harbour site.

Macau/New DelhiI: Goa will soon have a new addition to its list of attractions. And it could be no bigger than a casino spread over 20,000 sq ft, thanks to the Rs 3,400-crore Playwin, the country’s largest online lottery company and gaming brand of Pan India Infravest. The company believes that this offshore casino will be by far the biggest casino operation in the state.

Atlantic City (AP) -- State casino regulators extended the Tropicana Casino and Resort's license until next week, when a final decision on whether it should be renewed can be made. The state Casino Control Commission has heard two weeks of testimony on whether to relicense the casino in light of concerns about cleanliness, staffing levels and compliance with state regulations.

The Communist Party and the state think that it is now not the right time to allow open casinos, because opinions still vary about this. Deputy Prime Minister said so during the National Assembly deputies about whether the country should allow open casinos at the latest legislative session. Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung said: “It is not because we still cannot keep control over casinos.

Seniat, the Venezuelan tax administration agency, has planned the verification of other bingo halls and casinos in the region of Guayana for the following days, where they will proceed to the confiscation of equipments in case the contributor does not fit in with the regulation of the public administration. Within the transformation of the plans “Evasion and Smuggling Zero”,...

Supervisor John McKay wants to put the proposed Choctaw casino in Jackson County away as an issue. He plans to push for a vote on a casino resolution endorsing the November 6 vote. In the non-binding referendum, 60 percent of the voters cast ballots against the casino. Supervisors brought the resolution forward in their November 13 meeting. However, due to the absence of Supervisor Frank Leach, a final decision was delayed.

For five years, government regulators have been aware of misspending of gambling profits by Seminole tribal leaders in violation of federal law but have taken no enforcement action. Indian leaders elsewhere in the country have been cited for using tribal funds on such things as Super Bowl expenses and accepting free jackets worth USD 1,330.

International Leisure Development (ILD) aims to inaugurate mega-complex Gran Scala in October 2010 with a first phase of developments. According to sources of the project, figures indicate that, on that date, twelve casino hotels and twenty hotels will be operating. In a second phase, six to twelve months later, a second theme park should be built, called Aquántica and promoted by the same group of fifteen firms called Spyland.

Harrah’s Entertainment and Sumner Gaming and Resorts announced their proposal for a destination resort to be located in Sumner County, Kansas, which was submitted to the Sumner County Commission today for its consideration. Subject to certain customary conditions and receipt of corporate approvals, the proposal was also submitted earlier this month to the Kansas State Lottery for their review.

Gambling is prohibited in Islam. Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim country, with nearly 90 percent of its 235 million people being followers of the Islamic faith. Other plans to build casinos in Indonesia have faltered due to vocal opposition from Islamic activists. It remains to be seen whether Bintan island’s local government will be able to push the plan through. "We are aware of the controversy," Bintan district’s deputy chief Mastur Taher said.