Irish Minister For Justice, Equality & Law Reform, Dermot Ahern, TD, has published the Report of the Casino Committee - Regulating Gaming In Ireland! This report makes some 32 recommendations that have significant public policy implications regarding the future architecture of many aspects of gaming and betting in Ireland. Announcing the publication, the Minister said: "I am very anxious that we get things right in relation to our gaming and betting codes.

There is to be a trial in South Australia of a card that aims to limit spending by gamblers on poker machines. The State Government says gamblers can use the card to nominate how much they can spend in a day and when that is reached, they will be alerted. The trial will be operated by the company which markets the venue card system J-Card. SA Gambling Minister Paul Caica says the trial will start next month...

The barriers against the cross-border offering of sports betting and gambling erected by the EU (and EEA) Member States have been under strict scrutiny by the European Commission for several years. The Commission judges numerous national provisions to be in breach of Community law and has therefore already initiated infringement proceedings against several Member States, including Germany (two proceedings, one relating to the sports betting monopoly and one relating to the new Interstate Treaty on Gambling) and Austria.

With a total of 20 gambling venues currently operating in the country, Puerto Rican government collects around USD 300 million a year in casinos. Seven new casinos are planned to open before the end of the year. Recreational machines hosted in this type of centers are administrated under a monitoring system, it means, an online central server. They also count with a procedure to count the profitability of the machines.

When asked how he managed to get an investment certificate to build the USD 4.2-billion Asian Coast Development Ltd. casino and beach resort complex in Communist Vietnam -- one of the fastest-growing tourist destinations in Asia -- Michael Aymong smiles and says: "Simple. You just have to want to try." The Toronto native now living in Vancouver then gives an analogy that any self-respecting Canuck would understand...

Following the Kansas Supreme Court ruling, which will allows four casinos to be built in the state, Harrah’s Entertainment and Penn National Gaming pitched their plans for casinos in the Sumner County Thursday and Marvel Gaming Co. following on Friday. The two gambling giants faced the Kansas Lottery Gaming Facility Review Board in a local school auditorium on Thursday to answer questions by the board.

In the UK, the Gambling Commission has published its latest list of approved test houses accepted to assess the compliance of online betting and gaming sites with its technical standards and requirements. The latest list includes new entries Gaming Associates, Gaming Laboratories International and Gaming Laboratories Austria and includes details of which technical standards and requirements each test house can assess.

The Spanish state would stop collecting 650 million euros a year due to the lack of regulation in online games, according to the Spanish Association of Internet Bettors (AEDAPI), named by Regulatory Affairs director of bwin group, Karin Klein, in Gaming Executive Summit 2008, a congress held in Madrid on July 9-10. In the event, one of the main international platforms of debate of the gambling sector, both for operators and regulators...

Toronto - Online gamblers play more frequently and aggressively than those who take their chances in casinos according to a study from the University of Western Ontario that suggests new regulations to govern Internet gambling. Gamblers are using websites run by offshore companies in "leaps and bounds" but if there were regulations to oversee Canadian gambling operations there could also be safeguards to reduce problem gambling...

Deputy United States Trade Representative (USTR) Ambassador John Veroneau is expected to arrive in Antigua and Barbuda today to begin high-level talks with Minister of Finance and the Economy, Dr. Errol Cort, on the longstanding trade battle between the two countries over internet gambling. According to a statement released yesterday by the Ministry of Finance, Ambassador Veroneau will lead a six-member high-level delegation from the United States...

Within EELEX show, the Conference “Gambling zones: Problems. Aims. Reforms” will be held and whip up the representatives of four gambling zones – south is “Azov City” (Krasnodar region), north is “Siberian Coin” (Altay region), west is “Yantarnaya” (Kaliningrad region), east is Primorsky region and “Kamskiye Polyani” (Tatarstan) which is working now. The conference will be dedicated to urgent questions of gambling business in Russia...

After the creation of the American Association of Gambling Regulators, in the latest Monterrey event, the head of Febrabingo, Carlos Eduardo Canto, talked in exclusive to Yogonet.com about how this new association might help to the regulation of the sector in Brazil and what is the current situation on the sector. Which is the current situation of Brazilian bingos?