China launches campaign to stamp out online gambling

From AFP, via Yahoo! News: “China is launching an assault on gambling websites as part of a sweeping campaign to prevent officials from betting away public money, state media reported.

The Ministry of Information Industry, the top agency in charge of the Internet, will tighten supervision of online content and crack down hard on offenders, the Xinhua news agency said.”

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