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Regulus Partners examines the Chinese government’s crackdown on offshore gambling and real-money games, fulfilling its wider determination to control consumer behaviour and how CCP actions will impact the sector’s regulatory outcomes across Asia.    China’s nineteenth-century battles with opium are one of the generally lesser-known but more profound undercurrents of modern history. Two wars with Britain were fought and lost, …

The Philippines gambling sector faces a period of uncertainty as  newly elected Prime Minister Rodrigo ‘Roa’ Duterte has ordered the national gambling regulator to stop processing licensing applications for e-bingo parlours and gaming cafes. Duterte who won May’s Philippine’s election promising his electorate an ultra-hardline stance on corruption, told cabinet ministers that ‘online gambling must be stopped’. The President nicknamed …