Europe News - Page 117

In its first move into the UK, Century Casinos has announced plans to develop and operate a casino in Croydon, greater London, UK.

International News Brief: Two German women who took a casino to court after their husbands gambled all of their savings away have won damages.

Trident Gaming signs deal with basketball star Vladimir Petrovic for the Greek League 1 basketball team Aris, and will pay his wages for the club.

International News Brief: Maltco CEO, John Katakis, responds to an article that says that people were not buying staple goods, including food, but instead preferred to spend more on Super Five lottery tickets.

International News Brief: The National Exhibition Centre has been told by one of its own board members to put its plans for a super-casino on the table or withdraw from the race.

International News Brief: The battle between Birmingham City FC and the NEC to be nominated as a site for Britain's first super-casino will be resolved by the end of next month with Blues almost certain to win the race.

International News Brief: Casino owners are rushing through applications to open new venues ahead of tight new UK government restrictions from April 2006.

Harrah's Entertainment has announced the company plans to co-develop a Caesars casino resort in the master-planned El Reino community of Ciudad Real, 118 miles south of Madrid.

International News Brief: Sportalnet, a Maltese registered on-line betting company will be the new owners of the Casinò di Venezia.

Harrah's Entertainment announced Tuesday it will spend $700 million to jointly develop a hotel-casino in Slovenia with a Slovenian company.

The Small Town Poker Tour will push up the date for the European Small Town Poker Tour Championships.

International News Brief: Moscow’s mayor Yuri Luzhkov has called on the city government to get rid of 90 percent of the slot machines, extremely popular among Muscovites of all ages.

International News Brief: Harrah's Entertainment Inc. is set to announce two casino-resort projects in Spain and Slovenia with a total value of about $1.37 billion.

International News Brief: Moscow City Duma passed a bill on Gambling Business Facilities on where gambling halls can be located.

International News Brief: If internet gambling is like the wild west, then Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Poker is the latest cowboy to swagger into the saloon.

International News Brief: The U.K. Government has threatened to bring in statutory controls over advertising for online gambling following evidence that operators are breaking the law.

News Brief: The steadily rising number of casinos in Britain could leap by more than 50% to 211 sites, even before next-generation gaming licences have been granted under the Gambling Act, the Guardian has learned.

International News Brief: Latvian Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis offered to reopen a law granting the right to regulate gaming institutions only to the federal government, he told journalists.

International News Brief: Sunderland’s Gala Casino is ready to welcome revellers with a launch night tipped by bosses to be the biggest party the city has ever seen.

International News Brief: The market players in Russia's booming gaming industry welcomed the government's move to bring more clarity to sector's regulation by appointing federal tax authorities in charge of issuing licenses.