Las Vegas – The American Gaming Association and JCM Global are set to celebrate their decade-long partnership for responsible gaming at the 10th annual JCM/AGA Golf Classic held at Cascata in Boulder City, Nev., on April 28. The Golf Classic is a fundraiser for the National Center for Responsible Gaming (NCRG). Since its inception, the event has raised more than USD 500,000 for the NCRG, including USD 75,000 last year.

Taipei (XFN-ASIA) - Ma Ying-jeou, who is due to take office as president on May 20, is in favor of allowing local governments in the offshore islands to issue gaming licenses if they so choose, the Economic Daily News reported. Subject to parliament passing the necessary amendments, his administration is ready grant such licensing authority to local governments in the islands, Ma said during a visit to Penghu in the Taiwan Strait.

Sydney (Thomson Financial) - Australian gaming groups Tatts Group Ltd, renamed from Tattersalls Group Ltd., and Tabcorp Holdings Ltd. said on Thursday that trading in the shares of the two companies had been suspended following a decision by the state government of Victoria which could affect a key source of revenue for the two groups. The government of the southeast Australian state announced plans to abolish the two companies' duopoly in the state's slot poker machine licences and will allow hotels and clubs to directly bid for licences beyond 2012.

Thousands of American Indian tribal and industry leaders will gather April 20-23 in San Diego, California, for "Indian Gaming '08," the 17th annual meeting and trade show of the National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA). The event to take place at the San Diego Convention Center. The NIGA trade show is one of the largest annual gatherings of American Indian tribal and industry leaders, typically drawing several thousand delegates.

To control the tidal wave of slot machine outlets and casinos which have flooded Ukrainian cities, politicians are looking to copy a radical step taken by Moscow. The Russian capital passed a law in December 2006 forcing all gaming operations to move outside city limits to specialized gambling zones, and certain Ukrainian members of parliament (MP) want to do the same...

The deadline for the US to put forward a proposal to settle its long running Internet gambling dispute passed last Monday with Antigua and Barbuda reportedly receiving no word from the US. Up to late last Monday, neither Antigua and Barbuda's attorney in the matter Mark Mendel nor the local Directorate of Gaming had received any communication on the matter from US officials.

Washington, D.C. (April 2, 2008) – Former Senator Alfonse D'Amato, chairman of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group comprised of almost one million online and offline poker players nationwide, issued the following statement on today's hearing before the House Financial Services Committee hearing on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).

Der heutige 1. April könnte ein historischer Tag für alle Online-Spieler in den Niederlanden werden: Soeben hat der holländische Senat mit 37 zu 35 Stimmen gegen das geplante Anti-Online-Gambling-Gesetz entschieden. Damit scheint in unserem Nachbarland der Weg zu einer vernünftigen legalen Lösung in Sachen Online-Poker frei zu sein. Das Monopol der staatlichen Spielbanken ist durch das Votum definitiv durchbrochen.

Gaming tourism continues to power Macau's buoyant economy, as its gross domestic product (GDP) for 2007 grew 27.3 % over the previous year, according to Macau's Statistics and Census Service. Latest figures showed that the region's GDP for 2007 was estimated at 153.61 billion patacas (USD 19.2 billion) in real terms and per-capita GDP amounted to 292,165 patacas (USD 36,357) - outstripping the USD 29,847 in neighboring Hong Kong.

Espelkamp/Hamburg. Das Tochterunternehmen der Gauselmann Gruppe – Merkur Interactive GmbH – hat vor wenigen Wochen das Hamburger Unternehmer EDICT GmbH zu 100 Prozent übernommen. EDICT gehörte zur 'Jahr und Achterfeld Beteiligungs KG'. Seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 1998 fokussiert sich das Unternehmen auf die Entwicklung von Software für Online-Kasinos und Backend-Spiel-Systeme im Bereich der digitalen Spieleangebote.

Chen Si-ting, head of Nevada's representative office in Taiwan, visited the Miaoli County government this week to gain a better understanding of its plan to establish a special gaming district in the county's Tongsiao Township. An engineering consultancy company commissioned by the county government to select and assess potential sites for the gaming district recently completed its inicial report.

Swedish prosecutors have been advised to halt cases against media organizations accepting ads from foreign online gambling companies. Many online poker operators may now decide to begin advertising in Sweden, competing openly with state-supoprted Svenska Spel. The order came from UC Malmo, a department of Sweden’s Prosecution Authority, according to reports by Gaming Intelligence Group.