Bangkok (TNA) -- Slightly more than half of the total respondents in a poll conducted by Assumption University’s ABAC Poll disagreed with the Thai government’s plan to legalize casinos in the kingdom with the aim of attracting more foreign tourists and generating additional revenue to offset the administration’s budget deficit. The survey was conducted on 2,726 people in 18 provinces nationwide and found 56.4 per cent of respondents opposed the idea...

Trump Entertainment Resorts, the casino company founded by Donald Trump, posted its biggest loss since coming out of bankruptcy in 2005 as declining revenue prompted it to write down the value of its three properties. The loss swelled to USD 183.2 million from USD 9.68 million a year earlier, the Atlantic City-based company said yesterday in a statement. Revenue fell 6.4 percent to USD 228.6 million.

The Commonwealth’s Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi has long been seen as the biggest obstacle in the way of Governor Deval Patrick’s plan to build three luxury casinos in the Bay State. DiMasi lived up to that reputation Monday by delivering a blistering attack against the governor’s projections for how many jobs the initiative would create. A Globe piece made clear on Sunday that Patrick’s numbers are lazy at best, and exceedingly misleading at worst.

Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has backed the idea of legalising casinos in the country in a move which immediately drew criticism from opponents, who fear legalised gambling will lead to greater social problems. The controversial question of legalised casinos was asked by a member of the public, who phoned in to Samak’s weekly programme which is televised across the country on Channel 11 and also on a network of state radios.

Costa Rica government named a high-level commission with the aim to revise the law that regulates casinos, made in 1922, and toughen the rules in order to avoid the massive arrival of gambling venues in the country. The commission will be comprised by Ministers of Tourism, Carlos Benavides, Foreign Commerce, Marco Ruiz, and Justice, Laura Chinchilla, who will have 15 days to make a report to be presented to the government council.

Atlantic City, New Jersey (AP) -- Unlike gamblers on a hot streak who think the good times will never end, the casinos know better. Yet companies have forged on with plans to spend at least USD 9 billion on a wave of new casino projects in the country's second-largest gambling destination, even as not-so-subtle signs were surfacing that it might be time to walk away from the table for a while.

The number of casinos is set to nearly double despite a Government promise to restrict openings. Gaming firms have applied to build 125 smaller casinos and 16 "regional" centres to add to the 144 they already run. The total of 285 is almost double the cap of 150 set by the Government when introducing new gambling legislation in January 2005. Culture Minister Richard Caborn told MPs during a line-by-line debate on the Gambling Bill: "We can say with certainty that there will be no more than 150 casinos."

Los Angeles (Reuters) - U.S. gambling giant Las Vegas Sands is not interested in running any casinos in Britain after the government there scaled back its plan to open a supercasino in Manchester, a top executive said on Wednesday. "We spent a lot of time with the folks there (in Britain), trying to figure out how to do a larger style of gaming," said William Weidner, Chief Operating Officer of Las Vegas Sands, at the Reuters Travel and Leisure Summit in Los Angeles.

Atlantic City - The 11 casinos here reported a 10 percent decrease in total revenue last month, with every gambling hall, even the formidable Borgata, showing a decline. The casinos won USD 355 million at the slot machines and table games, compared with USD 394.5 million in January 2007. The revenue losses ranged from 21 percent at the Tropicana and the Trump Marina to 0.8 percent at Trump Plaza.

Am Samstagabend hatte ISA-CASINOS Partner und langjährige Wegbegleiter zur offiziellen Jubiläumsfeier in der Spielbank Baden-Baden eingeladen. Peter Wolf, Geschäftsführer der Baden-Württembergischen Spielbanken, begrüßte die Gäste und gratulierte den Machern von ISA-CASINOS zu ihrem Erfolg. Reinhold Schmitt, Chefredakteur und Gründer der Internetplattform, freute sich ganz besonders, das Jubiläum an der Geburtsstätte von ISA-CASINOS feiern zu können. Bei der Gründung im Jahr 1998 war die Spielbank Baden-Baden der erste Partner von ISA-CASINOS.

The nation’s fastest-growing city is poised to add more than 133 hectares of gaming development, which could bring as many as 2,500 hotel rooms - and a mini-Strip of sorts - to North Las Vegas. In Southern Nevada it’s the gigantic casinos that get noticed first. North Las Vegas, however, hasn’t had many towering projects of the type that defines areas and provides directional beacons across the valley - until now.

The Senate today approved a bill that would limit casinos to the counties where they are already operating. Senate Bill 2199 passed 36-14. “After 15 or 16 years of legalized gaming, every county along the (Mississippi) river or the coast has had ample opportunity to approve it,” said Sen. Lee Yancey, R-Brandon, principle author of the bill.