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Vietnam police bust $170-million online gambling ring

Vietnam police bust $170-million online gambling ring

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Police in Thanh Hoa Province examine phones and other items seized from a million-dollar gambling ring busted May 28, 2019. Photo by VnExpress/Lam Son Police in the central province of Thanh Hoa have arrested nine people for allegedly operating online gambling operations. But the gang's leader, Tran Quang Truong, 30, has gone into hiding and the police are looking for him. They said the organizers of the gambling ring had set up a system of tier 1 and 2 agencies through which their clients could buy virtual money to play online card games. They could convert the virtual money back into cash whenever they wanted. The clients could make their transactions either directly at the agencies or through banks. The total value of these transactions have been estimated at nearly V...
Phu Quoc, a rising star in Asian luxury tourism

Phu Quoc, a rising star in Asian luxury tourism

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Vietnam’s largest island, Phu Quoc, was once a rather sleepy, low-key destination. But in the last couple of years it has become one of Asia’s most talked about destinations, especially for luxury tourism. At the turn of the 21st century Phu Quoc, blessed with stunning beaches and an attractive year-round climate, was an undeveloped tropical island with little tourism. But even then many tourism observers believed it had the potential to one day compete with the likes of Indonesia’s Bali and Thailand’s Phuket. The island would develop rather slowly for the next 10 years and remain associated with simple beachside pleasures such as eating fresh seafood, snorkelling or just flopping on an otherwise empty beach. Most visitors stayed for just two days before flying back to Ho Ch...