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SOUTH AMERICA NEWS 01: MEXICO Officials investigating the Mexico gaming sector industry have restated their commitment to work to draft a new law –G3Newswire pg 08
02: CHILE Revenues in Chilean casinos have fallen according to the latest statistics from the Chilean Gaming Control Board (SCJ) –G3Newswire pg 10
03: JAMAICA Celebration Jamaica is set to begin construction of Jamaica’s first licensed casino in the next few months. –G3Newswire pg 12
NORTH AMERICA NEWS 07: US NEW YORK EPR Properties have unveiled Adelaar, a new four-season destination resort planned in Sullivan County, New York. –G3Newswire pg 32
08: US MASSACHUSETTS Mohegan Sun’s plan to develop a US$1.3bn resort casino, the Mohegan Sun Massachusetts gets green light –G3Newswire pg 33
09: US NEVADA SLS Las Vegas is to open its doors on September 1 with 50 per cent of its slots floor given over to IGT’s product range –G3Newswire pg 34
EMEA NEWS 04: SPAIN Aristocrat has gone live with its first server-based gaming operation in the Spanish regional province of Aragon –G3Newswire p g 14
05: GIBRALTAR The UK’s ‘Point of Consumption’ tax regime for online has been described as ‘a hammer blow’ for the Gibraltar economy. –G3Newswire pg 16
06: SWEDEN Swedish MEP, Christofer Fjellner, is championing the call for harmonised EU- wide legislation for online gambling –G3Newswire pg 20
ASIA & OCEANIA NEWS 10: INDIA Indian Hotel Association asks the Central Government for permission to operate gaming machines in provinces –G3Newswire pg 36
11: CAMBODIA NagaWorld, has continued to generate strong operational and financial results with revenue and profit increasing –G3Newswire pg 38
12: SOUTH KOREA Caesars Entertainment secures preliminary approval as part of a casino resort joint venture in South Korea –G3Newswire pg 39
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BELARUS 13: WHITER THAN WHITE Belarus has become Russia’s go-to country for legal gaming activities, flooding into the capital Minsk – Insight pg 24
14: UK - RESPONSIBLE GAMING The most recent UK budget has given tax breaks to the bingo industry, while heavily penalising the FOBT sector – Insight pg 26
14: SOCIAL GAMING LEGISLATION Peter Greenhill explores the current issues surrounding the burgeoning online gaming sector that is social gaming – Interactive pg 54
G3-247 REPORT 16: GERMAN ALLIANCE AND DEFIANCE Germany shows a unified front in the face of what some have dubbed ‘a Doomsday scenario’ for street gaming by 2017. – G3-247 Report pg 40
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