Czech Republic News - Page 5

Tennis star beats Brazilian football legend Ronaldo and world number one poker player Daniel Negreanu to win €50,000 for charity.

Nils Jarefjäll won the first European Masters of Poker season IV title at the Card Casino in Prague.

News brief: A radio report in the European country says that one of the five firms thought to be in contention for a gaming license is Fortuna Group.

International News Brief: Czech towns that regulate the operation of gambling machines want to have the right to restrict all gambling on their territory embedded in a new law on lotteries, representatives of the Association of Municipalities Against Gambling said.

Trans World Corporation, the owner and operator of casinos in the Czech Republic, today announces a profit of $37,000 for the quarter ended June 30, 2006.

Century Casinos, Inc. has acquired the remaining 50% of all issued and outstanding shares of Casino Millennium in Prague, Czech Republic, that were owned by Strabag AG.

International News Brief: People spent a record CZK 50 billion on gambling machines last year, according to Finance Ministry spokeswoman Petra Krainova.

betandwin has entered into a co-operation agreement with FC Slovan Liberec, the Czech division one soccer team.

International News Brief: Phone gambling and other games of chance air on Prima TV nightly after midnight and the offerings are on the rise in the Czech Republic.

International News Brief: Tough controls on casinos and gambling businesses planned by the Czech Republic government are no more than a first step in regulating an industry that is mired in corruption and linked to money laundering and violent criminals, observers say.

The nostalgia of Miami Beach in the Fifties is captured at American Chance Casinos', a subsidiary of Trans World Corporation, newest hot spot in the Czech Republic.

International News Brief: A man from the south of Israel was arrested Monday on that suspicion he threw two grenades at underworld kingpin Assi Abutboul in front of a Prague casino in early August.

International News Brief: Some two weeks after a grenade attack which injured 18 bystanders outside an Israeli-owned casino in Prague, the owners announced Monday the establishment was closing due to technical reasons.

International News Brief: The former government should have imposed tougher controls over casinos, President Vaclav Klaus has said, as police continue to hunt for an attacker who injured 18 by detonating a grenade outside a gambling business in central Prague.

International News Brief: Prague police have found a wig, pistol and hand grenade they believe were dumped by a suspect fleeing a casino bombing that hurt 18 bystanders in the city last week.

International News Brief: The Czech authorities are working on the theory that a bomb in the heart of Prague which injured 18 people yesterday was intended as an attack on an Israeli-owned casino.

Century Casinos has acquired an additional 40% of Casino Millennium, the company operating the casino in the Marriott Hotel in Prague, Czech Republic.