"This is just another step in our greater overall deployment into the Asian marketplace," remarked AngelCiti president George Gutierrez. "We recently attended a major gaming conference in Singapore and had the opportunity to open many doors into the Japanese- and Chinese-language gaming markets. We feel strongly that these relationships will bear fruit in terms of acquisitions, joint ventures and other unique opportunities that we will be able to implement over the course of the next 6 to 9 months. We feel the Asian markets will be a huge contributor to our bottom line in calendar year 2004 and beyond."

Excerpted from www.onlinecasinonews.com

In its latest misstep, the U.S. Justice Department has asked a Louisiana federal court to dismiss a lawsuit brought by casinocity.com that challenges the government's crackdown the past year on advertising by Internet casinos.

There is an ancient Chinese proverb about gambling and goes like this: "If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: The rules of the game, the stakes and the quitting time.”

A U.S. trade official, speaking on condition that she not be identified, confirmed that a WTO panel had issued a final report that was "largely unchanged" from its preliminary ruling against the U.S. ban one month ago.

Since they couldn't go after the offshore operations directly, prosecutors started threatening to go after companies that aid and abet those offshore bookies. That could mean anybody who accepts advertising from offshore betting parlors, including the search engines.

Last June, Deputy Assistant Attorney General John G. Malcolm sent a letter to media trade groups warning that their members could be breaking the law by accepting ads for gambling sites. Meanwhile, Raymond W. Gruender, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, has convened a grand jury in St. Louis that is issuing subpoenas to companies that do business with the online gambling industry.

Michelle Carinci, in an interview with The Canadian Press, said the website is already being used to create a database of potential on-line gamblers.

This was as a result of regulatory changes made by the Canadian Pari-Mutuel Agency last year allowing Internet wagers on horse racing.