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Hard Rock International and Hotel Properties Limited announced today their plans to develop a Hard Rock Hotel in Penang, Malaysia.

Global Cash Access will provide state-of-the-art cash access services to the Grand Waldo Casino, Rio Casino and the Waldo Casino.

International News Brief: Macau's casino gambling revenue in the third quarter rose 46% according to the Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau.

Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. announces the 1st Asian Casino Affiliate Convention is scheduled for November 28-29, 2007 at the recently built Venetian Hotel & Casino in Macau, PR China.

International News Brief: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is pushing for a casino in Eilat, after three years of freezing the matter.

Five casinos in Macau are now customers of Central Credit, a subsidiary of Global Cash Access Holdings, Inc.

The World Poker Tour China National Traktor Poker Tour crowned its first Provincial Champions yesterday in Lanzhou, Gansu.

TransAct Technologies Incorporated and Galaxy Entertainment Group's StarWorld Macau Resort announce the implementation of a new marketing pilot program.

Our Top-10 list of Gambling Destinations begins in New England, travels the high seas to China and lands in Las Vegas.

International News Brief: Hong Kong won't build casinos to compete with neighbouring Macau, despite the challenge posed by the gambling mecca's rapid transformation into a tourism and convention hub, Hong Kong's leader said on Thursday.

International News Brief: The Taiwan-backed operator of Vietnam's biggest casino, Royal International Corp says that its first Sheraton hotel casino would be delayed several months because of design changes.

International News Brief: Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng has called for a vote on the opening of casinos on Taiwan's outlying islands during the current legislative session.

After a successful debut in Macau this June, G2E Asia 2008 will include a pavilion dedicated to the internet gaming industry.

Chinese customers at the newly-opened 3,000-room Venetian Macau are experiencing a taste of Las Vegas-style gambling, glitz and luxury on a massive scale.

International News Brief: Two British women were seized by police after being caught playing bingo in a bar while on holiday in Turkey.

Golden Sun Profits Limited and Macau Success signed a conditional Sale and Purchase Agreement.

Gaming Standards Association has signed a memo of understanding with the Macao Polytechnic Institute.

A District Court judge has set back efforts by casino operator Sheldon Adelson to keep sealed pretrial depositions and other business information that his attorneys said could threaten the billionaire's growing Chinese operations.

News Brief: Shares in his Wynn Resorts tumbled nearly 10 percent after a casino analyst at Morgan Stanley said Wynn had wildly overestimated the action he expected at his extravagant new Wynn Macau casino.

International News Brief: A Singapore-based company has won the Bureau of Internal Revenue's bidding for M/V Philippine Dream, a floating casino in Cebu, Philippines.