Online casino gambling is promised to come to the province of Ontario, Canada, by 2012, but there is a strong opposition from the Canadian Auto Workers union who think that a possibility to gamble online may put problem gamblers even at a bigger risk of becoming addicted. However, internet experts are absolutely convinced that technology can make online casinos as secure against compulsive gambling as any land-based venue.

British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces have already begun allowing their lotteries to accept online casino gaming. Manitoba and Ontario are the next provinces to follow.

Legalization of online gambling can certainly help the problem of multi-million deficit in the provinces.

Slow legislation process regarding the e-gaming market in Italy nevertheless created one of the most concise and largest markets in Europe. The betting industry has come first, followed by internet poker. Finally, online casino sites have been announced to be coming into the market through Microgame, an already licensed and legally operating company in the Italian market.

Online casino sites are believed to have a huge potential within Italy and Europe as a whole.

Chinese government has always believed that censorship and filtering are absolutely acceptable. The recent restrictions in place turned out to be not as severe as the planned filtering ban of last year, however, they are supposed to weed out all illegal online casino gambling activity.

Any internet business offering games within the Chinese market should not violate the social morals and laws of the country. In addition to that, a new ID program is in place and all internet gaming companies should implement a real name identification program that verifies the age and places restrictions on the amount of online game play each person can engage in.

Liberalization of gambling laws in the UK resulted in the growth of the gambling industry. The number of gambling sites is increasing.

BingoAnywhere.com is a recently launched project of Cozy Games, a fairly new, but already recognized name in the UK.  There are already several huge bingo sites operating in the UK market, but what makes this site different is its appeal to a small niche part of the online casino bingo gaming population who like more intimate gaming atmosphere.

By the end of the year more options and promotions are expected, as well as the growth of the player base.

The idea of possibility to regulate the global online casino gambling industry hit the Japanese government once, at the time of global economic recession, though the idea was never materialized, thus leaving internet gambling illegal in Japan.

Illegal is still taking place in the country, that’s why the arrest of three individuals accused in participation in an illegal online casino gambling ring has been surprising. The ring has been under investigation for quite some time, but the portable nature of the online casinos and the industry as a whole made it hard for police to pinpoint them. The illegal online casino let the minors play and wager at the sites without any age checks and safeguards.

However, there is one point the police are not sure about: what to do with the nine internet gamblers who were gambling at these sites.

The BC Lottery Corporation had to shut down its Play Now online casino gambling site on its launch day as a result of security compromise causing the leak of personal information of account holders. An attempt to re-launch the site has actually failed too, as gamblers other than account holders were still able to access player accounts and important security data was accessible too.

Unfortunately the account breach is still active, and the company has not overcome the security issues yet. Initial reports say that the security breach compromised some player accounts and at least $8,000 was wagered illegally.

35 packages to attend Munich’s world-famous Oktoberfest and $75,000 in cash will be awarded during a special leaderboard challenge promotion recently announced by PartyPoker.com.

The four-week promotion starts on August 2 and is exclusive to Palladium Lounge members only. Its four winners will get $2,000  and 1,000 points each, the runners-up – $1,500 in cash and 975 points, while the third place winners will get $1,200 and 950 points. To say more, all the participants who finish in the top 100 will receive cash prizes, while points will be awarded all the way down to the 500th spot.

35 top players will get two-night accommodation with breakfast at a five-star hotel in Munich for themselves and a friend and two passes to Oktoberfest party. Special dinner, an open bar, poker tournament in the Davidoff Lounge and entry to a VIP party at Pasha, as well as an activity or spa treatment are also part of an award.

The Bolly Bingo site has been recently added to the Jackpot Joy Network, a prominent gambling network in the UK. The new site brings some authentic fun to Indian gamblers and besides that a new twist on the bingo games.

The Bolly Bingo site is already operating in the market, and its players can play all of their favorite games like the Monopoly jackpot game, The Price is Right and others. The game offers real time changes which can be enjoyed b y any gambler.

The UK liberalized gambling regulations resulted in the fact that now online casinos sites have to ensure that all of the messages leaving the gambling group should correspond with the strict standards laid out by the Advertising Standards Authority in the UK. The messages should not be misleading and contain over-sells for their gaming products.

One of William Hill’s email marketing messages about the currently running new bonus promotion  has been recently called out by the ASA. The complaint was initiated because of vague details, key details and requirements left out of the Will Hill emails.

Will Hill’s entire email campaign had to be abandoned.

Online casino gambling in China is illegal, and it is not a surprise that at the moment raids and arrests of very high profile gambling rings are taking place.

One of the latest raids has turned out to be the most successful – several employees from the Baidu Search Engine have been arrested (after Google pulled out of the market in China, Baidy became the largest search alternative in the country.

In accordance with official reports, the arrested employees worked in the company to illegally manipulate the search results to let “777 Real Online Casino” site pop up in the search results.

The Baidu company claims that the company has received money for advertising only, not for SEO manipulation. Baidu thinks the accused employees accepted the bribe which is completely outside of the company’s ethos and policies.

Baidu has officially apologized.