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A developer says approximately 30 jobs could be created by the conversion of two floors of Riversway House, a vacant office block on Morecambe Road.

Casinos in Busan, South Korea, are thriving because of the increase of foreign gamblers visiting the country's largest port city, according to industry figures released last week.

Supporters of a proposed casino in Oxford County said this week that building a new casino would attract another kind of entertainment to Maine that will complement offerings in tourist destinations such as Bar Harbor and Old Orchard Beach.

Australia's Star City casino this week unveiled a plan to transform its facility into a new harbor-front entertainment and gaming complex worthy of global attention.

A bill to give government recognition to six American Indian tribes in Virginia will come before a Senate committee this month, marking this as closest the tribes have ever come to that goal after decades of trying.

Gambling grew in August in Atlantic City, the seaside gaming resort in New Jersey.  With a fifth weekend -- rather than the regular sets of Saturdays and Sundays -- and lovely weather for most of the month, revenues inched up by about 1 percent over August 2007.

The Mohegan Sun, one of the largest gambling facilities in the U.S., will open a brand new casino this Friday. "It shows we're continuing to evolve," said Mitchell Etess, president and chief executive officer at Mohegan Sun.

A new report indicates that Louisiana's state-licensed casinos won $232.1 million last month, with winnings boosted by the national holiday, the Fourth of July weekend.

The prime minister of Taiwan, Liu Chao-shiuan, this week said he was in favor of legalizing casino gambling on Taiwan's offshore islands.

The debate over casinos is back, with the Patrick Administration this week releasing a long-awaited report prognosticating on the potential of Massachusetts as a gambling market.