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Yakuza are known to operate illegal casinos in Japan. In addition to traditional casino games, mahjong can be played for money and many mahjong parlors have ties with the Yakuza to assist collecting debt from players who default. Another illegal gambling opportunity is offered by mobile gambling sites. At these sites, Japanese gamblers can play ...
An anti-pachinko demonstration in Tokyo, Japan (2013) Gambling is illegal in Japan, but pachinko is regarded as an exception and treated as an amusement activity. [25] Although awarding direct money prizes for it is illegal, parlors may reward players with tokens which can then be sold for cash at nearby exchange centers.
Gambling in Vietnam is illegal and has been for centuries. A late 1940s travelogue notes that merchants kept bowls of dice at their stalls to engage in gambling with their customers when “housewives would routinely bet on the days their horoscope was fortunate", which means that on slightly more than fifty percent of such occasions they return home empty-handed and with the housekeeping ...
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Since 1992, Japan has been the biggest international donor to Vietnam. [26] A Japan Foundation center in Vietnam was established in Hoàn Kiếm, Hanoi in 2008. [27] There are about 22,000 Japanese people living in Vietnam in 2023, most of them live in large cities. Hanoi has about 8,700 and Ho Chi Minh City has about 10,600 Japanese people.
La Gi (pronounced:/la-yi/) is a District-level town (thị xã) of Bình Thuận province, Vietnam. Under the Republic of Vietnam period, La Gi was the provincial capital of Bình Tuy province (present-day western Bình Thuận Province). After the Vietnam War, it became the capital of Hàm Tân District. It was established in 2005 with the ...
October 14 – Miss Earth Vietnam 2023 held in Ho Chi Minh City From October 20 – COVID-19 is no longer a particularly dangerous infectious disease (group A) October 29 – Decision 3983/QD-BYT, annulling 160 documents on COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control issued by the Ministry of Health , takes effect
15 February – Vietnam lifts its COVID-19-related curbs on international passenger flights with no limitation on the number of flights in order to restore the travel to pre-pandemic level. [ 2 ] 6 September – A karaoke bar fire near Ho Chi Minh City kills at least 32 people.