カテゴリー: Gambling
Growing numbers in the capital Honiara are playing the street card game Pass for a chance of a big payout, while risking big lossesAs the school day ends in Honiara, *Irene, a 43-year-old teacher in a floral dress with a yellow daisy in her bun, steps …
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Measures include spending limits for online games and ban on rewarding players for logging in each dayChina’s $45bn (£31.3bn) gaming industry has been dealt a blow by proposals to limit the time and money spent on the sector.New rules including spendin…
Casino complex to be built in Osaka after ban was lifted despite fears about gambling addictionJapan has approved a controversial plan to build the country’s first casino, after decades of debate fuelled by fears that an increase in tourist spending co…
More than 30 closed for a week – with extension thought likely – and dozens of city zones locked down in gambling hubMacau has shut all its casinos for the first time in more than two years as authorities struggle to contain the worst coronavirus outbr…
Money should have gone to 463 low-income households but man received it all and commenced online casino spreeA Japanese man who was mistakenly sent ¥46.3m (£287,000/US$358,000) in Covid-19 relief funds has admitted he gambled away the entire amount in …
Justice department says Wynn lobbied the Trump administration for China to protect his business interests in MacauThe US Department of Justice on Tuesday sued Steve Wynn, the billionaire former casino mogul and senior Republican fund raiser, to compel …
Concerns raised over development costs for ‘integrated resort’, as well as crime and gambling addictionThe focus of Japan’s quest to open its first casino is a human-made island in Osaka that, if the city’s government gets its way, will end decades of …
Shenzhen residents can win one of 50,000 ‘red packets’ to spend in local shopsAuthorities in the Chinese city of Shenzhen have begun giving away more than 10m yuan ($1.49m) in a citizens’ lottery, as part of trials of a new digital currency.Almost 2 mi…