Month: August 2024

In 2022, the China Payments and Settlements Association said in its annual report submitted online on Thursday that it had helped its member organization block payments worth nearly 2 billion yuan ($277 million) that were known to be for gambling activities. It did not specify the type of gambling activity involved. The society is described…

Vietnam’s finance ministry has proposed “regular checks” on its casinos, citing locations across seven provinces and cities, local media VnExpress reported, citing a government announcement. The report did not comment on the scope of such inspection work. However, VnExpress noted that the ministry recently found cases of “multiple casinos” serving “unauthorized customers” and offered “unacceptable…

Nico Paz is considering leaving Real Madrid. Madrid Extra, which delivers the news of Real, quoted European transfer market expert Fabrizio Romano on the 12th (Korea time) and said, “Fars is considering leaving Real.” Born in 2004, Argentine midfielder Pas is the second-tier resource that Real expects. After joining Real Youth in 2016 after playing…

Germany’s highest court on Tuesday largely approved plans to shrink the country’s parliament, despite objections from smaller parties who say the reform is unfair to them. The conservative CSU and far-left Die Linke had appealed to the constitutional court in Karlsruhe about the changes, passed by the Bundestag lower house in March 2023. But in…

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te welcomed what he called the “largest-ever” delegation of foreign lawmakers to Taiwan and said Tuesday it showed the importance of democracies uniting, even as Beijing pressured members of the delegation not to visit. “This demonstrates the support and the value various other countries place on Taiwan,” Lai said. “It also sends…

Israel on Tuesday carried out a rare strike on Beirut, which it said killed the Hezbollah commander who was allegedly behind a weekend rocket attack that killed 12 young people in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. At least three other people were killed. Hezbollah did not immediately confirm the commander’s death. The Israeli strike killed a…

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised interest rates on Wednesday and unveiled a detailed quantitative tightening plan, taking another landmark step towards phasing out a decade of massive stimulus. The decision, which defied dominant market expectations for the BOJ to stand pat on rates, takes its short-term policy rate to levels unseen since 2008. At…

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday the United States was not involved in the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, and reiterated the importance of a ceasefire in Gaza. “This is something we were not aware of or involved in. It’s very hard to speculate,” Blinken said in an interview with Channel…

Iran and its regional allies vowed retaliation on Thursday for the deaths of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, raising regional tensions as mourners filled Tehran’s city center calling for revenge. A public funeral was held for Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital where he was killed early Wednesday in an attack on which…

“Let the batters win or let me win…I’m grateful to the fans” “When it’s bad, it’s bad no matter what you do…” The Lotte Giants of baseball rallied from a 0-4 deficit to win 6-5 against the NC Dinos on Aug. 6 at Sajik Stadium in Busan, extending their winning streak to three games. It…