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A Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia contractor has filed a High Court claim against a private limited company and a newspaper, alleging that they induced him to gamble. Chuah Yan Keng (43) claims that the newspaper published an advertisement last year on services provided by another defendant company and/or three unidentified online gambling websites, reports The Star [...]

Casino gambling revenue in Macau, the Chinese offshore gambling destination, almost doubled last month, according to a report from the Bloomberg business news agency. Gambling revenue for the city’s casinos in May 2010 rose to about 17 billion patacas (US$2.12 billion) from 8.8 billion patacas a year earlier, according to unidentified sources. The total for [...]

According to mandatory filings regarding its quarterly lobbying expenditure, the American Gaming Association, a trade group representing the interests of US land casino operators, invested a further $430,000 in government lobbying in the first quarter of 2010. Reporting on the expenditure, the Associated Press news agency revealed that the target for the funds was once [...]

Trying to bring clarity to the increasingly complicated European online gambling legislative scene this week, the Spanish EU Presidency has urged that a common definition of illegal gambling is vital to the coordinated and effective regulation of gambling throughout the trading bloc. These conclusions were presented to the EU Competitiveness Council this week, underlining the [...]

Online gambling has proved to be a short life and an unhappy one for the unidentified owners of the Tradition online casino, a venture that launched only last year on July 20th, powered by Rival software. The operation is one of 24 similarly powered online casinos listed as owned by Rival’s UK-based Silverstone Overseas Limited, [...]

Neil Mitchell of eGaming Review Online this week wrote an interesting piece regarding the number one online poker room, PokerStars, recent purchase of various poker news portals. "Is this the start of an increase in such activity across the board?" he asks. Gambling911.com is learning that next week’s i-Gaming Affiliate Super Show in Prague will [...]

The son of online gambling supporter and former US Presidential candidate Ron Paul, Rand Paul, has decisively won the Kentucky Republican Primary and is widely being hailed as the first big winner representing the Tea Party movement.  Paul is believed to share many of the views of his father, a staunch Constitutionalist.  Rand Paul wins [...]

Australian online gambling payment processor Daniel Tzvetkoff is scheduled to appear in court for the first time Friday where he will answer money laundering charges according to the Gold Coast News.  Tzvetkoff is facing a maximum sentence of 75 years. Another payment processor in the sector, Canadian Douglas Rennick, faced similar charges and learned this [...]

Australians are lapping up their weekly, almost daily, dose of crime and all matters of vice. Media Man and Gambling911 continue their probe into both real crime and TV entertainment drama down under. Australian viewers can’t get enough of crime TV, so it appears, with Network Nine Australia doing a first showing of the ‘Australian [...]

The Morongo Band of California Mission Indians were disappointed this week when the National Indian Gaming Association laid aside its proposal to block Barney Frank’s federal legislative attempt to legalise and tax online gambling in the United States. The Morongo, in concert with Californian commercial poker rooms, had hoped to marshall tribal support to halt [...]