Location: Asia
Thailand introduces gaming law to regulate ‘hidden’ gambling
8 October 2025 at 6:38am UTC-4
Thailand’s Digital Economy Promotion Agency has advanced plans for the country’s first dedicated gaming law, which aims to regulate games that blur the line between play and ...
Yolo Group secures two UAE gaming vendor licences
8 October 2025 at 6:02am UTC-4
Yolo Group subsidiaries Hub88 Holdings and Live Online Gaming Services have been granted gaming-related vendor licenses from the United Arab Emirates’ General Commercial Gaming ...
Thai police dismantle illegal online casino in Chiang Rai
7 October 2025 at 8:01am UTC-4
Thailand’s cyber police have shut down an illegal online gambling operation in Chiang Rai’s Mae Chan district, arresting a 24-year-old woman believed to be an administrator ...
Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology publishes draft rules for online gaming bill
7 October 2025 at 6:46am UTC-4
Indian government agency, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, has published draft rules for the country’s Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming bill ...
Three members of Taiwanese baseball team fined for online gambling
7 October 2025 at 6:32am UTC-4
Three members of the Taiwanese professional baseball team, the TSG Hawkes, have received fines and game suspensions after an investigation found that they had been participating ...
Nine Koreans arrested in the Philippines for illegal gambling
6 October 2025 at 7:04am UTC-4
The Philippine National Police has revealed that nine Korean nationals were arrested in Cebu City for allegedly running an illegal igaming operation.
Five of the suspects had ...
Forty-four illegal gambling platforms blocked by Philippines’ telecom firms
6 October 2025 at 6:57am UTC-4
Forty-four of the 52 illegal gambling platforms in operation flagged by Philippine gambling regulator PAGCOR have been blocked by Philippine telecom firms Smart, Globe, Converge ...
Evolution shares fall after Philippine partner loses license
3 October 2025 at 6:47am UTC-4
Evolution's Philippine business partner One Visaya Gaming lost its license last week, causing the Stockholm-headquartered supplier’s shares to decline by nearly 6% on Thursday ...
Timor-Leste government approves cancellation of gambling licenses
2 October 2025 at 8:16am UTC-4
The Timor-Leste government has approved a motion cancelling all existing and pending online gambling licenses.
The resolution, which the Council of Ministers in the country ...
Philippine Senator accuses Government Service Insurance System of ignoring social cost of gambling investment
1 October 2025 at 6:35am UTC-4
Philippine Senator Risa Hontiveros has criticized the Philippines Government Service Insurance System, a state-run pension fund for public sector workers, for its PHP1 billion ...
PAGCOR adds PHP50 million to illegal gambling crackdown
30 September 2025 at 5:49am UTC-4
Philippine gambling regulator PAGCOR will contribute PHP50 million towards the National Bureau of Investigation’s efforts to eradicate illegal gambling, including identifiying ...
Vietnam to launch international football betting pilot
29 September 2025 at 7:38am UTC-4
Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance has released a draft decree that proposes a five-year pilot program for international football betting, alongside horse and greyhound racing ...
Japanese police charge two men over illegal affiliate site
26 September 2025 at 7:36am UTC-4
Two men have been charged in Japan’s first crackdown on an online casino affiliate site, after allegedly facilitating JPY70 billion in illegal wagers.
Gifu Prefectural Police ...
Japan targets online casinos and celebrity endorsements via new law
26 September 2025 at 7:27am UTC-4
A Japanese law to curb gambling addiction came into force on September 25, placing greater restrictions on illegal online gambling.
Under the revised law, which was passed by ...
Vietnam jails 43 people for running VND88,000 billion online gambling ring
26 September 2025 at 7:09am UTC-4
The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City has jailed four siblings and nearly 40 others for running an online gambling and cryptocurrency ring that moved about VND88,000 billion ...







