James Packer’s company PBL and its partner Melco have announced plans to build a third casino in Macau. The Trinity Casino will be located in the main peninsula area of Macau and is expected to cost more than $767 million. Construction will start this year and will be completed by late 2010.

The companies told the press that the Trinity complex would consist of two towers. One of the buildings will have serviced apartments and the other will house a boutique hotel and a casino with 215 gambling tables, including roulette, blackjack and baccarat, and 500 poker machines.

Antigua authorities say the Caribbean nation is certain to enter the UK white list of non-European Union jurisdictions allowed to offer gambling sites to British citizens. All gaming operations based in countries not included in said list, will be banned from advertising in the United Kingdom.

The Department of Culture, Media and Services recently released a roster with gambling licensing jurisdictions that are not part of the European Union but, still, are considered acceptable concerning advertising in Britain.

The 55-year-old actor begun a completely new generation of 007, and was successful at promoting films like GoldenEye and Tomorrow Never Dies.

"I thought I'd do a fifth Bond. I wanted to do a fifth Bond," he commented. "But I got a call from my agents saying the producers had changed their minds, which is their prerogative, but it was very disappointing and I was in shock for about 24 hours

Amazing Holdings, lead by three Scottish businessmen, is planning the construction of a £350 million complex in the Penghu Islands. It will feature a state-of-the-art hotel and an entertainment center that is expected to attract gamblers, especially high-rollers, from Taiwan and China and compete with casino mecca Macau.

Scottish entrepreneurs Ian Irwin and Tim Potter said the company is ready to move forward. “Things are moving along nicely, there is a lot of activity bubbling underneath in South-east Asia".

Aiming to reinforce its civic sense, Venice Casino is now offering courses to detach addicts from gambling. Casino croupiers have been instructed to identify gamblers that are potentially “at risk” and direct them to therapists that are paid for by the casino.

“I want to remove the demonic image of the casino as a place of perdition and lost souls,” Mauro Pizzigati, head of the casino, said. About 800,000 Italians are addicted to casino games.

Actor Daniel Craig astonished Bond fans as well as critics with his debut as a 007 actor in Casino Royale, which came out last year. Takings from the movie were more than it was expected and the bosses at Eon, the production company, decided that Craig deserved a raise in his paycheck.

The film collected 300 million pounds, a new record for a Bond film. Daniel Craig is now going to make something like 5 million pounds for the second Bond movie, and then 8 million for his third appearance in a 007 film.

Official numbers revealed this week by the organism that controls gambling in Switzerland are showing a big rise in the amount of bets collected in this country in recent times and predict a promising future for the industry.

The data show that the Swiss are strongly attracted by gambling and this was demonstrated when, last year, it was revealed that the money spent on gambling by the Swiss reached the incredible number of 2.8 billion Swiss francs (approximately 2.31 billion dollars), biting in this way the national record of fund raising for the concept of gambling.

Aiming to reinforce its civic sense, Venice Casino is now offering courses to detach addicts from gambling. Casino croupiers have been instructed to identify gamblers that are potentially “at risk” and direct them to therapists that are paid for by the casino.

“I want to remove the demonic image of the casino as a place of perdition and lost souls,” Mauro Pizzigati, head of the casino, said. About 800,000 Italians are addicted to casino games. Though most addictions involve roulette and slot machines, some have developed bingo.

According to a statement released this week, casino operator Trump Entertainment, which manages three casinos in Atlantic City, did not reach an agreement with potential buyers and decided to end all negotiations to sell itself. The decision brought the company’s shares down 18 percent.

Two years ago, Trump Entertainment came out of bankruptcy and this year in March it hired Merrill Lynch to advise it in financial matters. Even though Donald Trump’s company is no longer considering acquisition proposals, it continues reviewing other strategies.

The Latin-American Gambling Association (ALAJA), the Argentinean Chamber of the Gambling Industry (CAIJA) and the Latin-American Gambling fair (SAGGE) have announced their first encounter with the purpose of evaluating the industry and discuss the path that it will follow in the next years.

The event, named “First Meeting of Latin American Gambling Associations” by its organizers, will take place in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on October 5th, this year.