Animal World film review: Li Yifeng, Michael Douglas in Chinese gambling fantasy, based on Japanese hit Kaiji – South China Morning Post

3/5 stars Chinese filmmaker Han Yan has made an admirably earnest adaptation of Nobuyuki Fukumotos manga and anime series Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji, with its profoundly silly premise. The director once again shows his aptitude for inserting wildly incongruent fantasy sequences into a story, having earlier put a couple of zombie attacks into the romcom Go…

Multiple killers behind death of Sydney man who gambled $90m at casinos – The Sydney Morning Herald

He said the 36-year-old was involved in organised crime and called himself a “professional gambler” after he developed a gambling addiction in his native Vietnam at age 15. Loading Court documents obtained by Fairfax Media show that Mr Hoang was well known to police, who had compiled eight different reports on him relating to cocaine,…

Boy, 13, with gambling addiction blows $106k placing online bets after stealing dad’s credit card – NEWS.com.au

A 13-YEAR-old boy with a gambling addiction managed to blow $A106,000 on betting websites after stealing his dads credit card. The teenager, from Lancashire, got hooked after seeing adverts for online bookmakers while watching a football match at Wembley, reports The Sun. He used his mobile phone to take pictures of his company director dads…

Dismantling California at-risk inmate housing brings hurdles – KVEO-TV

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Special California prisons intended to protect gang informants, disgraced cops and child molesters have become so violent, gang-riddled and crowded that officials are dismantling what’s become the United States’ largest protective custody program. The inmates are gradually being integrated into the general prison population, where some advocacy groups fear they will…