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…
Eight years after it took over regulation of consumer credit, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission last week announced it had discovered some people have problems handling credit cards. That tells you more about ASIC than credit cards. Having finally stumbled over what everyone with a vague interest in consumer finance already knew, our dopiest…
* September 2013: splits from Erica, the wife of his three young children. * May 2014: captured by paparazzi brawling with close friend and then-Nine Entertainment chief executive David Gyngell * December 2015: pays older sister Gretel a reported $1.25 billion to settle the terms of their father Kerry’s will. Steps down from Crown board…
There are questions that are acceptable on a date. Do you have siblings? Are you into rock climbing? Do you even like your job? And questions that just arent: when was the last time you had sex? What was your ex like? Are you in debt? One of the biggest taboos when dating is discussing…
PUBLISHED: 07:00 05 July 2018 | UPDATED: 07:08 05 July 2018 Henry Woodsford Gilbert was jailed for three years at Bristol Crown Court. Archant A Portishead man stabbed his friend, who had loaned him £40,000, in the back. Mark Gilbert, of West Hill, was jailed for three years at Bristol Crown Court on Thursday after…
Clubs NSW, the peak body for the operators of about 95,000 poker machines across the state, pledges in its mission statement “to support the communities served by its 1,200 member clubs.” So it is reasonable to ask the lobby group to explain how Dee Why RSL, one of its larger members, was supporting its community…
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,…
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…
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…
Joy was not the only member of Garys family to have begged the Dee Why RSL to intervene to curb his gambling. His wife Sonia says she had twice appealed to a manager at Dee Why to step in, once last December and again in January or February. Im not the carrying on and sobbing…