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Google has removed the Paytm App, one of India’s biggest digital payment apps, for several hours from its online store for breaching gambling rules, a day before the start of the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament. Betting is illegal in India, but the countdown to the 53-day IPL has seen a profusion of…
read moreThe Nepal Police is suspecting that illegal gambling dens have thrived during the past six months of Covid-19 lockdown and restrictions. Every year, Nepal Police crackdown on hundreds of illegal gambling dens which are operated mostly in private houses across the country. But during the coronavirus pandemic, not many raids have been conducted as…
read moreCambodia’s cabinet has approved the draft law on commercial gaming management, according to reports in the Phnom Penh Post. The law “focuses on ensuring integrated commercial gambling that contributes to economic growth, tourism promotion, job creation, and revenue generation,” the report said, citing a press release from the Council of Ministers. It calls for…
read moreKazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has signed the law “On Amendments and Additions to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Gambling.” Bookmakers will be moved to Kapshagay and Schuchinsk gambling zones. Earlier it was reported that the government of Kazakhstan wanted to create three new game zones in the country, however, deputies…
read moreSingapore is set to establish a new Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRA) by 2021 to consolidate and optimise all gambling regulatory resources within a single agency. The GRA will see the current Casino Regulatory Authority (CRA), which oversees Singapore’s casinos, and the Gambling Regulatory Unit, which regulates remote gambling services and “fruit machines,” come under one…
read moreRodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines, has hinted at more stringent online gaming regulation. He claims that he is planning to impose further regulations on the country’s online gaming industry, but ruled out a ban on the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs). He added that further tightening of POGO regulations could be a reasonable…
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