From the Times of India: Chinese philosopher Confucius spent most of his life in poverty. But his picture and sayings decorate lottery tickets being sold to luck chasers by a provincial government in Shandong… Chinese...
From The Financial Times: Beijing plans after the Lunar New Year holiday next month to begin a nationwide roll-out of a new lottery network, according to the joint-venture company contracted to build the system. Chinese lottery revenues rose about 22 per cent to more than Rmb100bn ($13.8bn) last year and Citigroup expects the country, which […]
From BBC News: Two Chinese bank workers have been sentenced to death for stealing nearly $7m (¬£3.5m) from the bank’s vault – and losing almost all of it on the lottery. The theft, from the state-owned Agricultural Bank of China in the northern province of Hebei, is reported to be China’s biggest ever. The two […]
From Danwei blog: “There is not a single professional among the tens of thousands of people working in the lottery industry.” So says Wang Xuehong, director of the China Center for Lottery Studies at Peking University, as quoted in The Beijing News. The center had originally planned on recruiting twenty or thirty students for its […]
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