Tuesday, 17. August 2004

Hong Kong police probe insect-fight gambling ring


Hong Kong's obsession with gambling reached unusual extremes with the arrest of 115 people for betting on insect fights, police said. The city is well known as a haven for China's horse racing and soccer gamblers, but raids on a club in the seedy Mongkok district of Kowloon broke a betting syndicate gambled on battles between huge crickets.

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