Location: Asia

The Philippines Anti-Money Laundering Council is increasing its examination of online gambling activities in a bid to prevent money laundering and funding for terrorism. In ...

The United Nations has issued a report warning of the spread of the Asian scam industry, including illegal gambling, fraud, and money laundering, which is said to be worth US$40 ...

Two social media influencers arrested in Rajkot over the weekend for promoting gambling earned hundreds of thousands of rupees, according to Indian police. The accused, Dharmik ...

Police in India have arrested 14 people across three states as part of an investigation into the Mahadev betting platform. The arrests relate to the use of online portals ...

Police in the Indian state of Goa have arrested 45 people in the latest crackdown on illegal online gambling during the Indian Premier League season. The operation, which took ...

Daily fantasy sports operator PrizePicks has extended its partnership with professional baseball team, the Atlanta Braves, with a three-year deal. The renewed agreement ...

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Junior’s stringent measures to crack down on illegal POGOs have resulted in the expulsion of 84 Chinese individuals from the country ...

Goa police have completed two raids against illegal Indian Premier League online betting organizations. Officers found 101 mobile phones and 17 laptops used to operate the ...

The goverment of the Indian state of Karnataka is mulling a new law to regulate online gambling in a bid to crack down on games of chance and, at the same time, allow for skill ...

BetBlocker, a free-to-use self-exclusion app, has expanded its software by providing a Japanese language variant. BetBlocker launched in 2017 to enable anonymous self ...

Philippine Senate Deputy Minority Leader Risa Hontiveros has resumed her stance on passing the Anti-POGO Act which seeks to strengthen the existing full ban on POGOs which came ...

The Indian government is planning to make online gambling companies a target of the 2002 Prevention of Money Laundering Act. According to the Indian Express, the Ministry of ...

Hong Kong’s most prominent think tank, Our Hong Kong Foundation, has proposed that revenue from legalized basketball betting should be used to fund sports development in the ...

Six comedians from the Japanese entertainment agency Yoshimoto Kogyo are being accused of gambling on igaming platforms. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department sent papers to ...

The Director General of Goods and Service Tax Intelligence in India has blocked 357 links for offshore igaming platforms. The Hindustan Times reports that Jitin Prasada, the ...