The National Lottery of Charity and Health (Lonabol) will control gambling venues in Bolivia. Until the end of the year, it will have a regulation that will rule the issuance of casino licenses through a tender process, so it may control and prevent the proliferation of this entertainment centers. Executive director of Lonabol, Marco Antonio Cárdenas, who said that Bolivia has to allow an activity that is legal in other countries...

Gov. Steve Beshear is sending a message to to the more than 140 online gambling Web sites that operate in Kentucky: All bets are off. Beshear said his administration sought and was granted an order by a Franklin County Circuit judge last week that transferred the domain names of 141 illegal Internet gambling sites to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in an effort to stop illegal and unregulated online gaming.

The State Government will crack down on pubs and clubs that operate as virtual 24-hour casinos in city suburbs. Eight venues in Brisbane, Logan, the Gold Coast and Townsville have licences to operate pokies until 5.30am. Their opening times vary from 8am to 10am. Another two in Brisbane and one on the Gold Coast stay open to 4.30am or 5am, again with opening times between 8am and 10am.

Tallahasse: The Attorney General of Florida wants a federal agency to step in and stop gambling at Seminole Indian casinos, even though the governor signed an agreement with the tribe last year. "The legislation never gave permission for it. That's the basis upon which the Supreme Court ruled the compact null and void," Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said in a phone interview Friday.

Macau in the coming years is going to face challenging growth and small and medium-sized companies will have difficulty surviving, as they will be competing against the gambling and tourism industries, according to the Economist’s Intelligence 2008/2009 outlook. The Economist Intelligence Report Unit’s most recent report states that the Macau government...

The Philippines may never be known as a casino gambling mecca such as Las Vegas or Macau, but they could improve their foreign investments. That is according to their trade secretary Favila. On Monday Trade Secretary Favila told the House of Representatives that exploring the option of a casino gambling complex modeled after Las Vegas could be beneficial to improving foreign investments.

Holland has cleared a proposed taxation bill that would allow the Dutch Government to tax games of chance such as blackjack and online craps. The government would also be able to tax those companies for whom the Dutch have prosecuted or attempted to prosecute. There is also a provision that would allow Holland to tax foreign customers.

The Remote Gambling Association (RGA), the body representing European online casinos, filed a complaint against US with the European Commission, alleging that the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in 2006 effectively restrained trade and acted as a protectionist action. The complaint added that this UIGEA passage allowed US interests to continue activities forbidden to overseas competitors.

Mauricio Macri, Mayor of the City of Buenos Aires, demanded the National Government the 100% of the games of chance profits for the city (they currently receive just a 26%). The agreement, signed in 2003 during Aníbal Ibarra conduct in government, ratified by law, states a co-participation in the dividends among ministries of Social Development of the city and the nation, a 50% each.

After seeking to ban Western dance and pop music, Malaysian northern state of Kedah wants to phase out gaming houses, something the non-Muslims, especially ethnic Chinese, resent. State Chinese Community Affairs Committee chairman Tan Wei Shu said although gambling was wrong in Chinese culture, the community would kick up a fuss if the local authorities shut down common gaming houses, reported a newspaper.

While attending a recent celebrity poker tournament near the Democratic Convention in Denver, Representative Barney Frank did not act defeated regarding the failure of his bill to prevent the enforcement of the UIGEA to escape committee. In fact, Frank told reporters that the law would pass in 2009 under a Democrat-controlled Congress. This news was met with hope by all online gambling fans, as well as purists for individual freedom.

Jean-François Cot, secretary general of the employers’ association of Casinos de France, told Le Figaro that the crisis through which the sector is presently going could deeply affect about ten of them, that is about 5% of the casinos. ”It is clear that the drop in GGR won’t recover any soon. And we all know that in the other countries, it took several years to revert to a slightly comparable turnover,” he specified on Wednesday 13 August.