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'Let lotteries fight against online gambling'
Expanding China's lottery industry is key to combating the growing level of illegal online sports gambling, which is already worth more than 1 trillion yuan a year, said a lottery expert. >>>
Legal betting goal for many
Zhu Kai has been losing a lot of sleep since the start of this year's FIFA World Cup finals in South Africa, although he is more worried about the amount of money he has lost. >>>

Gambling still a fact of Chinese life
From mah-jong on the streets of Chengdu to cockfights in Kaifeng, Henan province, gambling has long been a way of life for many people in China. Although it has been banned since 1949, gambling continues unabated. >>>
Police officer commits suicide for soccer betting debts
A Chinese police officer has killed himself after running up debts in online gambling on the football World Cup games, police said Thursday. Cai Jiabing, 31, was found dead Tuesday in his office chair in Hechi city, south China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. >>>
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China arrests hundreds of online football gamblers
Chinese police have arrested more than 810 online football gamblers during the World Cup as the Ministry of Public Security cracks down on domestic and foreign online gambling groups. >>>
Bet once, lose everything
"We lost our business, sold our house and now are in huge debt," said Wang Ningfang, whose husband, Liu Chunyang, lost 1.4 million yuan betting on football games online. "Our lives are now a total mess." >>>

Online gambler becomes Beijing's first to be jailed
A man has been jailed for one year and fined 10,000 yuan for helping others bet on soccer matches. Beijing's Dongcheng District People's Court passed the sentence on Zhao Yan on Wednesday morning. >>>
Authorities crack down on 600 online soccer gambling groups
Police have broken up 600 online soccer gambling groups and arrested more than 810 gamblers since the South Africa World Cup began. >>>
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Football officials to stand trial on corruption
Legal experts said the current law does not cover the crime of match fixing and appealed for new legislation to be enacted. Yan Qiang, vice-director of Titan Sports, said that although the bribery suspicions were well founded, there was no evidence that Xie and Nan were involved in match fixing. >>>
Cleansing the soccer world
The ministries of Public Security and Justice began their investigation into soccer corruption in November last year. >>>

Longer sentences kick off for football gambling
People convicted of organizing football gambling can now be sentenced to up to 10 years in jail, instead of three as before, a Dongcheng district judge said. >>>
Former soccer chief summoned for bribery case
China has launched a new anti-corruption sweep on soccer after the police recently summoned former soccer boss Xie Yalong and two other CFA officials to assist in the bribery case of Nan Yong. >>>
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