More than 100 jobs have been saved in Coventry after a buyer was found for the city’s Isle of Capri casino. About 120 workers at the casino were told this week that their jobs were safe after the company was sold to one of the country’s biggest gaming firms.

Expectations are high on a small island off Taiwan that it could soon host casino resorts. By building casinos in Penghu County, Taiwan’s is seeking to create local jobs and discourage local residents from leaving to find work. Also, the county wants to revitalize the island by attracting more tourists from China as its relations with Taiwan are becoming warmer.

Things have never been this bad for Atlantic City's casinos. Revenue is plunging at a record-breaking pace. Nearly 3,100 jobs have been lost in a year. Things have gotten so bad at Atlantic City's gambling halls that the head of the local casino association recently urged workers not to discuss the economy with customers.

The biggest plus to having casinos in Bermuda would be the potential boost to tourism. As everyone knows, Bermuda's share of international tourism has steadily declined in the past twenty years. This has resulted in the closure of many of the island's hotels and a reduction in the number of available rooms from approximately 10,000 in [1990] to about 3,000 rooms today.

Panaji: The Congress party will urge the government to safeguard the interests of Goan youth who are employed on casinos, in view of the demand from some organisations that casinos in Goa be closed. Addressing mediapersons on Wednesday, in the presence of a group of employees of the Maharaja casino, the party's spokesperson, Vishnu Wagh, said, "90% of casino employees are Goan youth.

Golden, Colorado (CNN) -- Sometimes the best way to roll with the punches is to roll the dice. That's Jerry Goldsmith's attitude. The Colorado man lost his engineering job of 29 years -- and the six-figure salary that went with it -- and is now applying for a casino job dealing craps, blackjack, roulette and poker. "I was angry. I think everyone gets angry," says Goldsmith, 60, recalling his New Year's Day firing.

Up for grabs: 4,500 gaming jobs such as croupiers, casino schedulers and pit supervisors. Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, which is targeting to open by end of this year, is hiring staff in areas such as Table Games, Slots, Casino Finance, Player Development and Surveillance in the second recruitment drive later this month. Out of these 4,500 openings, 1,500 will be for supervisory roles.

Front-line staffers working in casinos run by Macau's six licensed gaming operators are required to wear name tags starting this month, so that non-local employees can be "distinguished" from local ones, the Macau Daily Times reported on Saturday. The Special Administrative Region's Labor Affairs Bureau said in a statement that it expected the public to support the scheme and help "monitor" if the casinos employ illegal immigrant workers.

Singaporeans wishing to try their hand at dealing cards at a casino can apply for jobs this week at the two upcoming integrated resorts. Resorts World at Sentosa (RWS) and Marina Bay Sands will both kick off their first recruitment drive for gaming staff, together with other non-gaming positions, at the Career 2009 & Education 2009 fair starting Thursday. The gaming positions available include dealers, pit supervisors and surveillance operators.

Casinos are a terrific source of good-paying, benefit-rich, blue-collar jobs, the Labor Resource Center of the University of Massachusetts at Boston has found. The center’s new report - “Gaming in Massachusetts: Can Casinos Bring ‘Good Jobs’ to the Commonwealth?” - finds that for workers without a college education, casinos and their related enterprises pay higher salaries and provide more generous benefits than non-gaming jobs.

Rincon Indian Reservation - Harrah's Rincon Casino said Monday that it has cut 66 jobs since summer, a relatively modest number that nonetheless adds to recent losses in an industry once said to be recession-proof. Many of the positions have merely opened up and gone unfilled, casino spokeswoman Sheryl Sebastian said. The casino has laid off some employees and shifted others from one position to another in an attempt to avoid further layoffs, she said.

Las Vegas - Beginning today, CityCenter will be accepting applications via www.citycentercareers.com to fill more than 12,000 jobs, marking the largest single new employment opportunity currently offered by any corporation in the U.S. "Today is a momentous occasion for us; we're proud to be creating 12,000 new jobs at CityCenter that will be filled by smart, passionate individuals from throughout the state and country," said Bobby Baldwin, CityCenter's president and CEO