There’s a new Sri Lanka casino, approved by the government for investments worth around a billion dollars. The giant foreign-funded casinos in the capital Colombo on Thursday, including one involving Australian gambling mogul James Packer. Government spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said the cabinet granted the projects a partial 10-year tax holiday and approved the “mixed developments”, a euphemism for casino hotels. A Sri Lankan company set up to build a US$350-million resort with investments by Packer was given a prime lake-front property in the capital three months ago, while the second casino will be built nearby by local firm John Keells…

ABC News – Authorities in Las Vegas have installed 37 high definition cameras along the Las Vegas Strip in an effort to catch criminals and deter crime. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department bought the cameras with a federal grant. They will monitor areas concealed from patrol cars, and will be watched by police currently working desk jobs because of on-the-job injuries. The cameras have been placed about two stories off the Strip. Police hope the prominent cameras will serve a deterrent, and also allow them to monitor large crowds. SOURCE

IB Times – The Chinese gambling haven of Macau is booming as VIPs spend cash more heavily and rapidly, while Singaporean gamblers slow down and Japanese politicians back groundbreaking casinos, according to an industry report by Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) Monday. In Macau, record revenues in August and March earlier this year could help the city achieve revenue growth of 17 percent for 2013, or $44 billion for the year overall. Fresh infrastructure, like a new intercity railway completed in December 2012, or the new Chimelong casino due in late 2013, will attract more visitors from China, who represent the vast majority of…

Card Player – The poker room at Circus Circus Las Vegas just closed recently, according to reports. Card Player spoke on the phone with an individual from the casino and she said it has been shuttered “indefinitely,” but declined to provide any other information. The poker room was located near the entrance of the main casino and offered just five cash-game tables. The casino itself was most recently renovated in 2013. Circus Circus Las Vegas is a hotel and 126,000-square-foot casino located on the Las Vegas Strip. It opened in 1968 and now is owned and operated by MGM Resorts…

Macau Daily Times – Macau-based Melco International Development Ltd. and the administration of Russia’s Primorye (maritime) Territory have signed an investment deal worth USD700 million to build a new casino resort in Russia’s Far East. Lawrence Ho, Chairman of the board of Melco, told Russian media that he “is very optimistic regarding the potential of the company in the Russian Far East.” The intention of creating a new gambling resort in Russia had been announced in July. According to the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, expectations for the new development are set quite high, with the new integrated resort expected…

There has been a raid of a Pattaya Bar suspected of showing Australian horse racing. Those in attendance were allowed to place bets on the races with the bar owner. The raid was a joint operation involving local police and the Department of Special Investigations (DSI) Eastern Branch. That raid was carried out at 3.30pm on Saturday afternoon at The Members Lounge off Soi Baukao, owned by Khun Gaewjai aged 52 and her Australian husband Mr. Robert Steven Younger aged 58. At the rear of the bar was a separate room containing a 50 inch TV which was showing live…