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Las Vegas in Laos: the riverside city awash with crime
AFP, Published on 14/07/2025
» VAN PAK LEN, Laos - Rising from the muddy fields on the Mekong riverbank in Laos, a lotus tops a casino in a sprawling city which analysts decry as a centre for cybercrime.
Search for missing cockfighters begins at Philippine lake
AFP, Published on 10/07/2025
» MANILA — Search teams arrived Thursday at a lake south of the Philippine capital Manila to look for dozens of cockfighters allegedly murdered by rogue police, the Department of Justice said.
Philippines raids Chinese-run scam centre, stepping up crackdown
Bloomberg News, Published on 21/02/2025
» MANILA — Philippine authorities arrested more than 400 individuals during a raid of what they said was a Chinese-run offshore gaming operator in Manila, as the Southeast Asian nation intensifies its crackdown on scam centres.
'Angry gamblers' behind half of abusive tennis social media posts - report
AFP, Published on 20/12/2024
» PARIS - Tennis chiefs revealed Thursday that "angry gamblers" accounted for almost half of abusive social media posts targeting top tennis stars.
Philippine Air cuts China flights amid weak demand, tensions
Bloomberg News, Published on 01/10/2024
» MANILA - Philippine Airlines Inc is cutting back flights to China, becoming the latest carrier to reduce traffic amid weak travel demand and fraying relations between Beijing and Manila.
Philippines arrests over 150 foreigners in online gambling raid
Bloomberg, Published on 01/09/2024
» Philippine authorities arrested more than 150 foreign nationals during a raid of an illegal online gaming hub on Saturday.
Philippines' Marcos orders closure of offshore gaming industry
Published on 22/07/2024
» MANILA - President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Monday banned gambling operations set up in the Philippines that target gamblers overseas, including Chinese mainlanders, because of crimes linked to the industry.
Turncoat warlord at centre of Myanmar drama
Reuters, Published on 25/04/2024
» Armed soldiers loyal to a turncoat warlord patrol the streets of the border town of Myawaddy, as troops of the ruling Myanmar junta and rebels jostle for control of the outpost that handles more than US$1 billion in border trade every year.
UK looks to overhaul gambling industry
AFP and Reuters, Published on 27/04/2023
» LONDON: The UK government on Thursday announced a proposed overhaul of Britain’s £14-billion ($17 billion) gambling industry with a view to tackling addiction in the smartphone era.
Inside the 'living hell' of Cambodia's scam operations
AFP, Published on 09/11/2022
» Trafficked, beaten and locked up far from his family in China, Lu was one of thousands of people in Cambodia forced to operate online scams to line their captors' pockets.