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The SYNOT Group has announced that they are continuing their efforts in casino operations in the Asian market by opening a second gaming venue in Vietnam. This time, the Czech-based group will be offering casin...
As negotiations to bring gambling to the Crimea region of Russia continue at pace, local officials in the southern city of Sochi have this week granted a first casino operating license to a company called LLC D...
It was announced in July that Station Casinos LLC was given approval to create a casino in the city of Reno. The gaming venue would be located across from the Reno-Sparks Convention Center, a piece of property ...
La Villa Mediterranean (pictured) will not become Marseille’s first ever casino as Mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin has acknowledged that the venue lacks the space for a proper gambling floor, according to a report on ...
For decades, efforts to expand gambling options have been unsuccessful in New Hampshire, despite that the number of casinos in the small New England state continues to grow as the Boston Billiard Club & Cas...
The Melco-Hard Rock Resorts Cyprus consortium recently announced that it had received approval from the government of the Republic of Cyprus to create a casino gaming venue. The Melco led consortium was initial...
A proposal to bring a casino to Rockaway Beach is unlikely to come to fruition, according to the mayor of the small resort town in southwest Missouri.
Mayor Don Smith told the Springfield News-Leader that th...
The Meadowlands Liberty Convention & Visitors Bureau (MLCVB) a proponent of expanding casinos into the northern part of New Jersey released information Friday afternoon pointing to a possibility that the od...
The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation is now preparing to send out a request for proposal, known as an RFP, in the near future to consider as many as five operators for a central gaming venue in south Geor...
A legal challenge by the Casino Platja de Palma has been rejected by the Superior Court of Justice in the Balearic Islands in Spain, which ruled in favor of the decision by the executive branch to allow the Gra...
In the Dominican Republic, a federal judge has postponed the implementation of an injunction against Hard Rock International and its plan to build a 38-story hotel tower featuring a 23,000 sq ft casino in the c...
The boss of Cirsa Gaming Corporation has declared that his firm will not be taking part in the coming BCN World complex near Barcelona as he believes the giant development in north eastern Spain will not attrac...
In progress since last year November, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe’s $21.1 million Gray Wolf Peak Casino’s new facility opened its doors on Tuesday to between 100 and 200 waiting gamblers.
The ...
In the United Kingdom, Chelmsford City Racecourse has unveiled a $61.53 million plan that would see the Essex venue open and casino and be permitted to host up to ten outdoor music festivals a year.
Accordin...
Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd. (MPEL:US) will begin VIP gaming operations on November 5 at the $3.2 billion Studio City, for which in 2011, the casino operator acquired a 60 percent interest.
In an email rep...