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Byline: Jonathan Ansfield, Wang Zhenru and Alexandra A. Seno, Peter Hudson, Karen Lowry Miller, Piotr Zaremba and Andrew Nagorski, Mark Hosenball, Mark Russell, Vibhuti Patel, Jenny Barchfield, Nicki Gostin
CHINA
Raising the Stakes?
Gambling has been illegal in China since the communists took power in 1949, but authorities usually look the other way. Lately, however, high-profile cases of officials blowing government funds at the tables have stung the leadership in Beijing, acutely aware of how intense the resentment of official corruption is throughout China. To nab those high rollers, authorities recently launched the largest crackdown on ...
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