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Hong Kong police have confiscated about HK$130 million in betting records and arrested more than 50 people in a crackdown on illegal football gambling launched ahead of the Euro 2016 tournament. One of the bookmaking rackets, which had raked in orders of HK$31 million, was broken up on June...

The UK Gambling Commission has written to operators to warn them about facilitating betting on television programmes and other novelty markets. The regulator said that there had been repeated instances of operators offering markets on pre-recorded TV programmes such as Great British Bake Off, Strictly Come Dancing, and other...

South Korea’s gambling tax revenue rose by 4 percent in 2015 amid persisting weakness in the Asian gambling sector. Thanks to the gambling sector’s increased sale, the Asian country bucked the regional downward trend of gambling tax revenues and posted a KRW2.42 trillion (US$2.06 billion) profit in 2015 from...

Nos primeiros cinco meses do ano (1 de janeiro a 31 de maio), os portugueses apostaram 161 milhões de euros no Placard, o mais recente jogo com a chancela da Santa Casa. Em média, os portugueses gastaram mais de um milhão de euros (1 059 210 euros) neste portefólio:...

The state of South Australia has introduced a 15% interstate tax on gambling, based on the place of consumption. All bets placed in South Australia with Australian-based betting companies will now be liable for the tax, Treasurer Tom Koutsantonis said. The tax will raise AU$9.2 million ($7 million) a...

Another week brings another round of Euro 2016 betting busts by Asian law enforcement. Our first stop takes us to Hong Kong, where police are busy tallying the score of their Operation Crowbeak anti-betting crackdown. Police say they’ve arrested over 50 individuals and confiscated around HKD 130m (US $16.7m) in...

The referendum that marked a historic time for Britain and Europe was a momentous event for punters too. Brexit vote broke the record for gambling on non-sporting events in the UK—eclipsing even the widely popular Royal baby and previous elections in the country—with punters putting down an estimated £120 million...

Brazilian lawmakers have introduced new legislation which would establish a regulatory framework for gaming in Brazil, although it explicitly bans any form of betting including online. The bill has similar provisions to those of Senate Bill 186/2014 – another bill introduced this year to legalise various forms of gambling including online...

Police have busted a remote gambling syndicate believed to have received more than S$200,000 in soccer bets in the past two weeks, in the midst of the ongoing UEFA European Championship from Jun 10 to Jul 10. In a news release on Sunday (Jun 26), the Singapore Police Force...

Novadic-Kentron, in collaboration with E-ASSYST, agog and Janshen-Hahnraths-Group / Fair Play Casinos (FPC) developed an app for the prevention of gambling problems. This app is based on the already existing Prof. treatment model Dr. Peeters (Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen). The app has been developed for a wide range...