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The presidential campaign of U.S. Sen. John McCain and the Ohio Republican Party are supposed to be working together, but have split over a gambling measure on next week’s ballot, according to a press report.

The state party’s slate mailer urged support of McCain and opposition to Issue 6, which would allow a casino in Clinton County, but the McCain campaign nixed the second part, according to an article in the Washington Times.

That’s because McCain generally supports legalized gambling, the article noted. (more…)

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Britain’s second largest bookmaker, William Hill, has revealed that its total gross wins for the previous 15 weeks increased by nine percent thanks to a solid performance from its interactive channels.

Interactive gross wins for the company behind WillHill.com increased by 21 percent over the same period last year with sportsbook and gaming recording increases of 27 and 19 percent respectively. (more…)

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Police arrest 14 gamblers

Indonesian police continued their blitz on gambling with a hotel raid which saw a president commissioner of a private company and 14 others arrested. The Jakarta Post reports that police raids netted a “sophisticated gambling ring” last Friday during a raid on a five-star hotel that was directly opposite the Jakarta Police Headquarters.

National police spokesman Insp. Gen. Abubakar Nataprawira revealed that a criminal investigation division squad had arrested 15 people at the Sultan Hotel in Central Jakarta during the raid, which was mounted following a tip-off. During the raid, the police seized Rp 91 million and US$400 in cash, jewelry and gambling equipment. (more…)

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Would online gambling fare better if it simply went by “online predictive markets”?

Online “predictive markets” do not share the heat that is online gambling’s fortune. While online poker and the likes are in effect banned by US law, American politicians do not attack these websites.

The New York Times published an article by Paul McNamara of the IDG (International Date Group) that raised this issue. (more…)

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Google does a 180 on its online gambling advertisements policy – now it will allow officially registered UK and EEA online casinos to advertise.

Google, the world’s largest search engine, has opened up another lucrative market – online gambling advertising. The new move comes as liberalization through regulation of the gambling industry is taking place. Previously Google banned online gambling advertising, but now the stage is set for a new wave of gambling promotions and marketing. (more…)

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Councilor Luis Alberto Mauri seeks to prohibit all forms of online gambling in Argentina so that citizens can only gamble in taxed gambling arenas.

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Argentineans are about to face the wrath of the authorities regarding all forms of online gambling. The long-arm of the law has decided to put an end to all untaxed, unregistered online gambling activity. The latest unpopular bill to be proposed would effectively eliminate all online gambling. Councilor Luis Alberto Mauri wants all gambling Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block Argentineans from accessing their websites.

This is going to prove an unenviable challenge, given the country’s love of gambling activity.

Greater Control Lawmakers are quick to point out that they are all for regulated and taxable gambling activity, but not for the unregulated version. The targets of the new bill include: casino games, sports betting, poker and bingo. This is the only way for government to get a slice of the action, so they think. (more…)

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In India, the Minister of State for Finance has tabled a bill in Parliament that would amend the nation’s Prevention of Money Laundering Act 2002 and require money transfer providers to abide by mandatory reporting obligations.

If successful, Pawan Kumar Bansal’s bill would also see payment gateways such as Visa and MasterCard along with money changers and casinos come under the ambit of India’s money laundering laws.

Introduced in the Rajya Sabha, India’s upper house of Parliament, on Friday, the proposed bill introduces a new category of offence with cross-border implications for fighting terrorism while treating insider trading and market manipulation as laundering offences with stricter punishments. Offences related to human trafficking, piracy and environmental crimes along with over or under invoicing customs would also be punishable under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. (more…)

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Can sexual education and better parenting skills lead to a drop in gambling trends for youths? Two writers seem to think so.

Baptist Standard newspaper unveiled an incensing article that while has some merit as far as statistics go and reports of studies, had some pretty strong opinions on youth gambling. One of them indicating that youths from age 14 to 21 must have started gambling because they may or may not have come from broken homes or were sexually active at an early age.

A compilation of studies were used as the basis of this article. (more…)

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They allow the smoking of marijuana in their parks, and hand out needles to drug addicts in their pharmacies, but apparently the Dutch are not so liberal with online gambling.

Who would have thought that Holland, out of all of the Europeans countries would be one to slap taxes onto online gambling operators? This is a result of directives from the new, expanded, and mighty European Union which has set a crusade against monopolies of this kind in their community.

Holland is now set to launch legislation that would post heavy taxes onto online gambling companies. This is not always a bad thing, provided the money is invested in the industry itself, but that is not the case here, where the taxes are considered to be punitive. It would appear that the Dutch just have a hard time with the gambling ethos. (more…)

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NETELLER Plc (LSE: NLR), a leading independent, global provider of online payments, is pleased to announce that it is proposing to change its name to NEOVIA Financial Plc. A circular has today been sent to shareholders and is also available on the Company¹s website.

The new name represents a strategically important evolution for the NETELLER Group. It builds on a year long rebranding process to differentiate the parent company from the Group¹s operating brands of NETELLER, NETBANX and

Net+, each of which has a strongly established brand identity and reputation. The name, meaning ³New Way², supports the Group¹s strategic vision of providing differentiated, bold and exciting online payment solutions that target merchants and their ³online generation² customers. (more…)

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