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Four Chinese men picked up in raids by the Shanghai police in June this year for facilitating online betting on World Cup football games have appeared in court, accused of helping more than 20 gamblers to wager a total of 51 million yuan (around $7.5 million) through an unidentified illegal offshore online gambling website.
The massive nation-wide anti-online gambling blitz by Chinese police continued as the week ended, with spokesmen reporting the destruction of a major online gambling syndicate based in the Jiangsu Province.
Chinese enforcement officials have unveiled some interesting statistics related to the country’s determined assault on illegal online gambling websites, reports The China Daily.
According to a report in the Chinese publication Global Times, the threats by Beijing enforcement agencies to clampdown on World Cup football betting are being ignored by many online sports betting sites that continue to evade police raids.
The Chinese government is about to tighten the internet screws on activities that it deems to be undesirable – including online gambling – in a new initiative to tighten controls, reports Associated Press.
The multi-ministry war being waged by the Chinese government on Internet gambling continues to hammer companies as well as individuals, according to a progress report issued this week by the Ministry of Culture.
Commenting on the recent slew of arrests in raids on Internet gambling operations in China, a director of the government’s cyber security bureau warned this week that there was more of the same in the pipeline.
The UK group Betex Group plc has announced that its Chinese operation has signed an exclusive 5-year contract with Nanjing Welfare Lottery Management Centre to launch and operate a new retail lottery concept across Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Province.
Former Chinese soccer star Lv Dong has been sentenced by a court in the north eastern city of Dashiqiao to three years in prison for operating an Internet sports betting ring. He was also required to pay a fine of 1.5 million yuan – about $200 000, reports the news agency Xinhua.
The Daily Telegraph carried an interesting article over the weekend in which it examined the firmly established gambling culture of the Chinese nation, a pastime that has continued to flourish despite being largely outlawed on the Chinese mainland since the Communist Party took power in 1949.
The Chinese government used an announcement of Internet pornography prosecution statistics this week as a further opportunity to caution that online pornography, gambling and “…other sites deemed harmful to society” remained its primary targets in the “purification of the Internet.”
The anonymous resident of Anyang City in the Henan Province of China who last week cracked the biggest lottery prize in recent Chinese history has unwittingly caused a flood of betting pilgrims to come to the city, boosting local business.
Stanley Casinos is launching a Chinese-language version of its online Circus Casino as part of its plan to integrate Internet and offline brands, reports Casinos International.
The Chinese new media mobile lottery operator VODone Limited has claimed some startlingly fast business development in its instant Internet broadcasting of lottery results and mobile lottery business, “Constant Lottery”.
The upcoming Asian Poker Tour this August will set the scene for what could be a Chinese version of the popular US poker movie Rounders, increasing awareness of the game as a sport.
Stephen Wong, writing in the publication Asia Times Online this week made the interesting observation that Communist Party aparatchiks and Chinese government officials could be turning to online gambling for their entertainment and profit in a reaction to government crackdowns on corruption and misappropriation of public funds.
Liberalising gambling laws could help China survive the global economic downturn, sports officials told the annual meeting of China’s parliament this week, according to a report from the Reuters news agency.
Some 100 students at an exclusive Chinese school have been expelled on allegations of running up gambling debts of over GBP 100 000 (1 million yuan) in an illegal gambling ring, reports the UK newspaper The Telegraph this week.
What is being described as China’s largest online gambling case yet came to a conclusion in a Shanghai court over the weekend, when twenty defendants involved in a $1-billion online football gambling case were fined and sentenced to prison terms ranging from one to six years. All 20 accuseds pleaded guilty in January 2009, when …
The latest in virtual cities, ICyou.se’s Interactive City, has signed an agreement with the Hong Kong based Bele gambling group which will foster cooperation and promotion for both in the Chinese market.
Mahjong Time, which provides online mahjong gaming software and is an official partner of the World Series of Mahjong (WSOM), has signed Chinese online sports news company Sportscn as a licensee of its mahjong game software.
The death sentence imposed on corrupt Chinese government official Li Shubiao in 2005 has been confirmed by the Chenzhou Intermediate People’s Court following a retrial for graft and misappropriation of public funds, reports the Xinhua news agency this week.
The world’s largest Internet population – the Chinese – were deprived of access to the New York Times last Friday, according to the newspaper.
The Chinese goavernment’s drive against illegal gambling focused on the major urban and industrial city of Shanghai this week, with the Shanghai Daily newspaper reporting the arrest of over 500 persons alleged to be either gamblers or operators of illegal gambling facilities.