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From homegrown initiatives at the ballot box in rural America, to the fate of th six concessionaires in Macau as their licenses are set to expire betwwen 2020 nad 2022, to Asian marketplaces like Japan and Vietnam that are set to change the world casino landscape, you'll find all the news that's fit print here. Complementary sections include the over arching Gaming Industry News section as well as Licenses, Taxation, and Online Gambling Regulation.
Proposed constitutional amendments in Arkansas to allow casino gambling in the state and to legalize marijuana have been rejected by Attorney General Leslie Rutledge (pictured).
The state’s attorney general ...
In Illinois, proposed legislation that could see the Midwestern state license up to six new casinos including one for the metropolis of Chicago has been passed by the Illinois State Senate.
According to a re...
In North Dakota, the federally-recognized Spirit Lake Tribe has reportedly postponed a controversial vote on whether to permit the sale and consumption of alcohol within its Spirit Lake Casino And Resort in ord...
In Brazil, a political scandal that could derail proposed legislation to legalize casinos is brewing after a disgraced oil and mining billionaire reportedly agreed to provide details of alleged illegal bribes h...
In an effort to see sports betting legalized in the state of New Jersey, Congressman Frank Pallone Jr. is looking to the administration of President Donald Trump. This week, Pallone sent a letter to Acting Soli...
Some of the 40 VIP gambling promoters accounts that have been reviewed by Macau's casino regulator so far have proved to have faults, but the severity of the issue is not clear yet.
Macau’s Gaming Inspection...
A decree stipulating the conditions for “clubs de jeux (gaming clubs) in Paris” along with provisions related to casinos has been signed by the Minister of the Interior and was published by the government of Fr...
The federal government’s stance on a proposal from the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation to open a commercial casino in northern Connecticut has reportedly not changed de...
A new decree specifying the conditions for operating casinos on board merchant ships that are carrying French passengers has been published in the Official Gazette.
The decree states that irrespective of the...
The seaside city of Miami Beach, Florida won’t be home to casinos any time soon after the city commission voted unanimously in a special session on Friday to approve two ordinances that would ban any type of ga...
A measure that would help to fill an estimated $878 million hole in the upcoming fiscal year’s budget was shot down by an Oklahoma Senate budget committee on Friday.
Tribal gaming in Oklahoma would have seen...
In an attempt to stop the perceived proliferation of video gambling machine parlors, officials in the Illinois village of Island Lake have reportedly passed a one-year moratorium on the issuing of any new opera...
As legislators in Japan continue the process of crafting specific rules governing the nation’s coming integrated casino resorts, the governor for Wakayama Prefecture has reportedly suggested that only foreigner...
Just a few days ago it was announced that the government of Japan was working on a new bill regarding the casino industry that would cover how new casinos would be regulated along with tax payments and number o...
Casino mogul and Forbes’ 2017 world's richest gambling billionaire, Sheldon Adelson, has reportedly met with Rio De Janeiro Mayor Marcelo Crivella and President Michel Temer to pitch an idea for an $8 billion r...