(CNN) -- You know it's a recession when leggy Las Vegas showgirls can't sell enough tickets to stay in business. That's what's happening to "Les Folies Bergere," a revue modeled after its famous namesake in Paris, that has run in Vegas for nearly 50 years. The curtain will go down on the act for the last time on March 28, according to the Tropicana Las Vegas, where the show runs on the Strip.

Phnom Penh (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen here on Wednesday instructed governmental officials to close all underground gambling dens across the country. "You have to close all the gambling places that are still hidden in your zones, especially near the Central Market in downtown Phnom Penh, and if not so, I will fire you," he said at a graduation ceremony of the Royal University of Phnom Penh.

More than 5,000 Chinese citizens left Maijayang yesterday after the Chinese and Myanmar governments cracked down on casinos in the border city. Several Chinese teenagers have been abducted recently in Maijayang. To stop gambling Myanmar has shut down the casinos in Maijayang and China has cut off power, water, telecommunications and even paths to the town which sits on the Sino-Burma border, Beijing News reported.

Bookmaker William Hill plans to close 14 shops in the Republic next month with the loss of 53 jobs. It confirmed yesterday that it was closing 14 outlets in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Clare, Wexford and Waterford. Its statement said this would put a number of jobs at risk of redundancy. It is understood that up to 53 staff will be laid off as a result. The British-based bookmaker blamed the economic downturn and the proposal to double betting turnover tax to 2 per cent from next May.

The announcement that the Wyndham Nassau Resort and Crystal Palace Casino will close its doors for two months as a result of the global recession has prompted the Bahamas Gaming Reform (BGR) Committee to renew its call for the Government to comprehensively examine the nation’s current gaming laws. The traditionally slow tourist season is between August 17 to October 5...

The Gaming Board secretary is suggesting Exuma casino operator Pinnacle Entertainment is now looking to close up shop on January 2, 2009, and not the end-of-the-month retreat it had initially indicated. "It has not been confirmed yet," Bernard Bonamy told Guardian Business Wednesday, "but they have indicated to the Bahamas Hotel Corporation that that is the date they are looking at; not the August 31, date.

More than 1,000 casinos have been closed down in Moscow in the past 18 months under a law passed last year to move gambling from large cities to far-flung regions, a Moscow government official said on Friday. Under the law designed to curb Russians’ growing addiction to gambling, approved by parliament and signed by then-president Vladimir Putin, casinos in the capital and other cities are to disappear completely by next July.

Tõnis Rüütel, head of the Estonian Association of Casinos Operators, told Eesti Päevaleht that the casino business is like any other business that is suffering from the current economic slowdown. “Almost all operators have been losing money for the last two quarters and the third quarter should be no different,” said Rüütel. Since spring, 15 casinos have already closed doors.

Due to a ministry regulation, 300 illegal casinos will be definitely closed in the country, in an action that has started this week in the city of Guayaquil. The chief of police of Guayas province, Fátima Campos, together with dozens of policemen, started to close those gambling venues located in the regenerated zones of the city. "It is addressed to centers that have illegal slots, because, according to the law, they should operate in five-star hotels.” she pointed.

The public prosecutor Martín Lapadú confirmed yesterday that last Friday he presented to the Argentine law a request to close the sports betting site Bwin. This judicial requirement would be effective in the following days. "Once it is closed, the webpage will not be operational", announced Lapadú. “The page does not have the proper authorization neither of the National Lottery nor the Gambling Institute of the City”, pointed Lapadú.

Bill number 883/07, from representative Antonio Carlos Mendes Thame (PSDB-SP), prevents the issuance of licenses in security warrants and precautionary measures to reopen bingos closed by the government. Mendes Thame affirmed that there is an improper interference of the Judicial Power in the task of the government to rule the activity of these centers. The author remarks that its proposal reproduces, in different circumstances, something that is already in the current Brazilian civil legal system.

More than 300 slot machine halls have stopped operating in St. Petersburg since January 1, according to local officials, as regional legislation now prohibits the existence of such halls in the city. Casinos will be permitted to operate until June 30, 2009, City Hall’s Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade (CEDIPT) said Wednesday in a statement.