Europe News - Page 114

International News Brief: British lawmakers have called for tough new measures to crack down on corruption in sports-related betting.

International News Brief: The great-great- grandson of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky is involved in litigation demanding that the writer's picture be removed from lottery tickets.

International News Brief: Imagine gambling in a casino, working out on a treadmill and going shopping while flying across an ocean.

One analyst is betting that Russia may soon rival Asia as one of the world's fastest-growing gambling markets.

nternational News Brief: Wales’s win over England in Cardiff on Saturday has shaken up the betting for the RBS Six Nations, with William Hill now offering Ireland as 13-8 favourites to win the tournament.

Most Russians love gambling. According to the data of the FBK auditor-consulting company, the country's citizens annually spend 37.5 billion rubles on gambling games and lotteries.

Opinion: David A. Marcus, CEO of Echovox, examines the effect of the changing UK gambling legislation on the mobile gambling (m-gambling) market

International News Brief: In the early 90s, women represented just four per cent of gamblers but now 20 per cent of British women visit an online casino or betting site more than once a year.

Spin3 and Microgaming are launching the first complete mobile casino system.

International News Brief: The British are, it seems, a nation of virtual poker-lovers.

International News Brief: Ladbrokes is to launch a casino that allows people to gamble from their mobile phones.

The founders of CryptoLogic Inc. have sold shares worth about CAD$30 million, eight per cent of the company, to British institutional investors.

International News Brief: Tough controls on casinos and gambling businesses planned by the Czech Republic government are no more than a first step in regulating an industry that is mired in corruption and linked to money laundering and violent criminals, observers say.

nternational News Brief: Euro Off-Track, the wagering company that lost its simulcasting agreements with the NYRA after being named in a federal indictment of 17 individuals on charges of illegal gambling and race-fixing, claims to have acted as a whistleblower in the case.

International News Brief: Stanley Leisure Plc, the largest U.K. casino operator, may apply to operate all the 24 casinos allowed under new British gambling laws after the government placed limits on the number of Las Vegas-style venues it will permit.

International News Brief: Gaming and betting operator Totesport has launched an online casino, called totesportcasino.com.

International News Brief: Stanley Leisure has split from the rest of the casino industry in its lobbying of the Government over the controversial Gambling Bill.

International News Brief: Claims that ministers want to limit the size of teddy bears given as prizes at seaside arcades have been denied.

Ladbrokes Limited declares that Jamie Foxx is the strongest favorite for best actor since Russell Crowe received a golden statuette for Gladiator in 2000.

The nostalgia of Miami Beach in the Fifties is captured at American Chance Casinos', a subsidiary of Trans World Corporation, newest hot spot in the Czech Republic.