The three major stakeholders in the stalled Baha Mar resort project in the Bahamas have begun talks aimed at completing the project. Bahamas Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson (l.) is...
The government of Paraguay is preparing to announce the winners of two 10-year gaming licenses in Asunción. Each developer must pledge to invest at least $10 million, and will...
An undisclosed, tentative deal has been reached between locked-out members of Unifor and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. The OLG locked out the workers last month after reaching...
The developers of Brisbane’s Queen’s Wharf development project are counting on Asian high rollers to butter their bread. Echo Entertainment will build the $2 billion waterfront resort, designed to...
Toronto police are cracking down in illegal gambling in the city and recently raided 30 locations, including three illegal casinos and nine illegal gambling houses, resulting in charges against...
Critics of a 22-year-old gaming monopoly in the Australian state of Tasmania are attacking an arrangement that gives one firm the exclusive right to offer poker in the region.
Pari Mutuel Urbain and the Jockey Club Brasiliero have formed a joint venture to promote horseracing in Brazil through a new subsidiary, PMU Brasil. PMU will operate betting for...
Tourism from China is suddenly a big business in New Zealand and Australia, who are scrambling to attract all kinds of visitors from new economic powerhouse, including visitors to...
Fitch Ratings says Crown Resorts Ltd. and Echo Entertainment, Australia’s top gaming companies and ongoing rivals, are holding steady credit-wise despite weaker economies and expansion plans that were made...
Christian Porter, newly Social Services minister in Australia, says the country’s planned review of the gaming structure and regulations is on track to be complete in December. The review...
Sarkis Izmirlian met with Prime Minister Perry Christie (l.) and the attorney general of the Bahamas in a last-ditch effort to save his Baha Mar resort project. The nearly...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (l.) ordered ministers to prepare a study of the likely socioeconomic impacts of legalizing gaming in Israel and opening a proposed casino in Eilat,...
Bloomberry Resorts Corp., the parent company of Solaire Resort and Casino in Manila’s Entertainment City largely owned by Ricky Razon (l.), has established a subsidiary that will explore investment...
A director of the trouble-plagued Baha Mar project in the Bahamas says the termination of the project’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy status will jeopardize the $3.5 billion resort’s “commercial viability.”...
Michael Graydon, former top regulator in British Columbia, granted a betting increase for all casinos in the province a short time before being hired by a company running casinos...
The Federal Group has announced plans to upgrade its two casinos in Tasmania, but wants an extension of its gaming monopoly to make the multimillion-dollar investment. The virulent anti-gaming...
Ontario gaming regulators locked out 1,500 workers at three casinos after labor talks hit an impasse. The casinos have reopened with reduced and are being run by non-union staff...
Will there be a casino resort in Karratha, Western Australia (l.)? Parliament has confirmed receipt of a “proposal for a gaming and entertaining complex” in the rough-and-tumble industrial area.
Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation has signed a 20-year agreement with the Ontario Gaming East Limited Partnership, which will pay $50.4 million to operate gaming services in the East...
A U.S. bankruptcy court has said that the financial plight of Baha Mar Ltd. is an international issue best left to the Bahamas to settle. The Baha Mar resort...