Gambling opportunities are now more accessible than ever, especially with the availability of online gambling. However, this has led to a troubling trend among young people. According to a research company, many young people view gambling as a quick and easy way to make money and this surge in youth gambling has sparked concerns. According...
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Cutting Losses: Southeast Asia’s Crackdown on Online Gambling
Online gambling has emerged as a lucrative sector in Southeast Asia, luring in foreign investors and capital across the region. Consisting of live casino games, online gaming machines, and sports betting, the sector is primarily driven by offshore Chinese gamblers. By setting up operations in states with liberal gaming laws, they effectively evade China’s stringent ban on gambling...
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Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns
Jakarta: Indonesia said it has banned the privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo, citing concerns that it could be used to access pornography and online gambling websites which are illegal in the country, the communications ministry said on Friday. Indonesia, with the world’s biggest Muslim population, has strict rules that ban the sharing online of content deemed...
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Belgium Ignites Global Debate by Changing Gambling Age, Highlighting Huge Regulatory Gaps
WATERFORD, Ireland, Aug. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Belgium has ignited a global debate by raising its legal gambling age from 18 to 21, citing concerns over gambling addiction. The move sets Belgium apart from other EU countries like Sweden, Germany, Finland, and Austria, where the legal gambling age is 18. Miranda Raaff, Head of...
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India’s Online Gambling Industry Is a Lottery
For two years Darshan Babu borrowed from moneylenders to bet on cricket matches. Pretty soon, he owed close to $180,000. As the debt grew and creditors began putting the squeeze on Darshan and his young family, it all became too much. On March 18 this year, Darshan’s 24-year-old wife, Ranjitha V, died by suicide. In...
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Suffering losses in online gambling, TN man scripts burglary drama to steal, pawn wife’s jewels
CHENNAI: To compensate for the losses he incurred in online gambling, a man connived with his relative take away his wife’s jewellery when the family was away and then enacted a burglary drama, sending police on a wild goose chase for a couple of days. Near midnight last Sunday, B Janardhanan (44) of EGP Nagar...
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Benny Rhamdani Tight-Lipped on ‘T’, Alleged Online Gambling Kingpin, After Interrogation
Jakarta. The Indonesian National Police’s Criminal Investigation Unit (Bareskrim) interrogated Benny Rhamdani, Head of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (BP2MI), on Monday regarding his claim about an individual identified only as “T,” who is suspected of masterminding online gambling operations in Indonesia. As the identity of “T” has yet to be verified, Bareskrim plans to...
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Bankruptcies jump 28% in states with legal online sports betting
Bankruptcies have risen 28% in states that legalised online sports gambling, according to a new working paper from the University of California, Los Angeles. A 2018 Supreme Court ruling paved the way for states to legalise sports gambling; in the 38 states that did so, financial measures including credit scores and bankruptcies worsened significantly across...
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BP2MI Chief to Testify on Alleged Online Gambling Kingpin
Jakarta. Benny Rhamdani, the Head of the Indonesian Migrant Workers Protection Agency (BP2MI), claimed in a forum that an individual known as “T” is orchestrating online gambling operations in Indonesia. Rhamdani is set to provide testimony regarding his statement to the Criminal Investigation Department of the National Police (Bareskrim Polri) on Monday, July 29. “I am...
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A nation bet big on online casinos. It didn’t go well.
While the players are in China, the croupiers on their screens are often far away in studios in the Philippine capital Manila. Filipino officials say many of these operations are also run and staffed by Chinese nationals. Now, the Southeast Asian nation is shutting them down, concerned that the businesses have become fronts for a...
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Myths About Online Gambling
With online gambling growing rapidly in popularity, there’s also a lot of misinformation out there about what it entails. Between shady offshore sites and sensationalized media coverage, it’s easy to get the wrong idea about internet betting and gaming on trustworthy sites, such as Roll XO. To separate fact from fiction, let’s take a closer...
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Philippine President Announces Ban on Online Gambling Operations
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has announced a ban on online gambling operations, accusing them of connection to a variety of crimes, including murder, kidnapping, online scams, human trafficking, and torture. In this annual State of the Nation address, Marcos said that the ban would take effect immediately, but that he had given the country’s...