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International News Brief: The Hong Kong racing season concluded on Sunday with approximately $7.73-billion in total handle, a 4.3% decrease from the 2004-'05 season and the continuation of a ten-year slide.

Betfair has become the first gaming company permitted to present a poker tournament in Singapore.

Efforts to promote Nevada's tourism industry are paying off in Asia and could soon result in direct air service from China, a state tourism leader said Wednesday.

nternational News Brief: In what is seen as a harbinger of change in the pecking order in the South Korea’s legal gambling industry, lotteries and casinos are booming in contrast to a decline in the traditional industry’s mainstay of horse and bicycle racing.

International News Brief: Hong Kong Correctional Services staff will increase surprise searches, night raids and joint searching operations in penal institutions during the World Cup to stem soccer gambling activities.

nternational News Brief: More than 500 people have been arrested in Bangkok for illegal gambling on football since the World Cup kicked off early this month, police said.

International News Brief: Rick Lee, a Malaysian company, had bought the Jockey Club Saigon from the Korean owner.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. has now reached commercial terms with 200 premium retailers, who combined will bring 250 branded stores to the company's malls on the Cotai Strip in Macao.

International News Brief: The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. is standing firm on its decision to close down the Legenda Hotel Casino at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone.

International News Brief: Hong Kong may not have a team at the World Cup but that has not stopped interest reaching stratospheric proportions because of the craze for soccer betting.

International News Brief: Legends International Resorts Ltd. yesterday warned the closure of its local operations, Legenda Hotel Casino in Subic, by state-run Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. will affect future foreign investments in the country.

nternational News Brief: The government of the Macau Special Administrative Region has collected 7.7 billion patacas in direct gaming taxes in the first five months, a year-on-year rise of 17.4 percent.

VendingData Corporation has received a purchase order for ten Deck Checkers to be installed in the Kangwon Land Casino in Kangwon Province, Korea and the Seven Luck Casino in Seoul.

International News Brief: After being granted the government license to operate the first Philippine-based online sports betting exchange, Interactive Entertainment Solutions Technologies is set to make a splash in the Asian market.

International News Brief: Eighty two percent of people surveyed in the city of 6.8 million said they thought that Brazil would make the final of the World Cup tournament and 63 percent said the South American football giant would win it.

Japan could be the gaming industry's next frontier now that many development opportunities around the world are spoken for, a recent Deutsche Bank study found.

The Asian Gaming Expo is the largest casino gaming equipment trade exhibition in the Asian region.

The Philippines-based Asian e-gaming regulator, Cagayan Economic Zone Authority is the latest independent online gambling body to accept the global integrity and operational standards of eCOGRA.

Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Fairmont Raffles Holdings have entered into a non-binding term sheet and expect to enter into binding definitive agreements before the end of Q3 2006.

nternational News Brief: Thai bookmakers taking bets on World Cup matches have migrated across the border to neighbouring Burma to avoid arrested for illegal gambling, news reports say.