2006 May 28 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

May 29 (Bloomberg) — Shares of CapitaLand Ltd. and Keppel Land Ltd. slumped after Singapore awarded a license for the city’s first casino-resort to rival bidder Las Vegas Sands Corp.

SINGAPORE : Betting on major sporting events is always going to happen, but in chunks of Asia it is illegal and police across the region are cracking down ahead of the World Cup.

NORWICH, Conn. - You’d be hard pressed to find a local teen who hasn’t visited one of the state’s two casinos.

Tennis is not typically thought of as a big betting sport, but the fact is the amount of action you can get on sports other than football, basketball, and baseball…

DOVER - As the coins keep coming into the casinos at the state’s three racetracks, some legislators and industry officials who want to grow gambling in Delaware face a tough task.

SMASHED TO PIECES. That was how Thailand ended the countrys badminton aspirations in the mixed doubles final of the Bingo Bonanza Philippine Open championships yesterday at the Philsports Arena in Pasig City.

May 28, 2006 Memorial Day weekend on the Strip boomed with poker possibilities, but it was MANSIONPoker.net’s Pokerdome Challenge at the Tropicana that lured spectators.

Although the head of the state Gambling Commission says it is unlikely that individual online gamblers will be targeted for arrest, the new law carries stiff penalties: as much as five years in prison and a …

Dozens of public housing residents were paid about $15 each to attend a rally in support of a planned casino and sports arena, a lawmaker said.