Espelkamp. Twenty-eight of the thirty-four international compliance managers currently working in the Gauselmann Group met for a workshop covering various topics at Schloss Benkhausen in Espelkamp in mid-July.

Olympia, WA (March 17, 2011) – Members of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) from across the state of Washington are spending the day in Olympia today to ask their state lawmakers to overturn the draconian state law that makes Washingtonians felons for enjoying a hand of poker on their home computers. The PPA, the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide and more than 20,000 in Washington State…

(Xinhua) — High level representatives of Macao’s six licensed gaming operators have met here for the third time to discuss issues concerning local gaming markets, the Macao Daily Times reported on Friday. This was the first time for Sheldon Adelson, chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corp., to make his first appearance in the meeting held Thursday.

An exhibitors‘ meeting for the InterGame Expo has been arranged at the Ibis Hotel London Earls Court on Tuesday, September 30, at 6.30pm. The Expo is to be held from January 27-29, 2009 and is a specialist event for the coin machine industry. Exhibitors are invited to view the facilities at the Ibis before discussing other elements of the show, including loading and unloading, marketing and social events.

According to numerous news sources, the Office of the US Trade Representative has requested the postponement of planned meetings with a European Union (EU) delegation to discuss US online gambling policies. Scheduled to take place next week in Washington, DC, the meetings were to consider accusations that EU-based online gambling firms were being unfairly discriminated against under the White House’s Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) of 2006.

The Regional director for UNI Americas Gaming Global Union has invited local gaming industry advocate Cindy Gibbs-Nicholas to attend its Gaming Global Seminar in Argentina between September 4 to 6. A statement yesterday stated Gibbs-Nicholas will spearhead talks with leaders from the region’s gaming sector trade union organisations and will highlight problems employees in the TT gaming sector currently face.

Concerned casino workers are seeking a meeting with Prime Minister Patrick Manning to once and for all resolve issues relating to the regularisation or proposed elimination of the local gaming and gambling industry. The union representing the workers, Union of Members Clubs and Lottery Workers, said this request comes on the heels of several meetings with Minister in the Ministry of Finance Conrad Enill which they saw as inconclusive.

Korea will host its first international conference on the subject of casinos next Tuesday. The International Conference on Casino Development and Strategy will be held at the Millennium Seoul Hilton in central Seoul on July 10-11. The meeting was organized by the Korea Casino Association; Kangwon Land, the operator of the nation’s only casino for Koreans; Grand Korea Leisure, a subsidiary of the Korea Tourism Organization and the operator of the foreigners-only casino Seven Luck.