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Problem teenagers
A worrying survey has found that more and more teens
are placing bets, and problem gamblers are getting younger
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lmost one-in-three Hong kong teenagers make a bet at least once a week
and many of them do it in Macau’s casinos, according to a new survey by a
group dedicated to tackling problem gambling.
The Evangelistic Club’s Rehabilitation Centre for Problem Gamblers inter-
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viewed 886 you people between the ages of 14 and 17 at the beginning of the year
and found that 35 percent gambled at least once a week on either Mark Six, horse
racing, football, mahjong - and Macau casinos.
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Five percent confessed to betting three times a week. Mahjong and card
games were the most popular activities, followed by Mark Six, football and horse
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racing. Another 17 percent admitted to gambling on cruise ships and
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at Macau casinos.
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The survey also discovered that 94 of the compulsive gamblers who asked for
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help in January last year were less than 35 years old, and of those, 64 percent can
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be categorised as pathological gamblers while 25 are problem gamblers. Most - 91
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percent - are males and 74 percent of pathological gamblers have university level
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degrees. The majority of the gamblers polled had lost about MOP51,000 thousand
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patacas and 17 percent has staked in excess of MOP500,000 gambling.The report
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warns of a drastic drop in the average age of gamblers and seek help from the reha-
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bilitation centre, falling from 45 years old in 2001 to 35 today.
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In one case, a 19-year-old who had been gambling since the age of 10 would
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use his schoolbooks to play “Big and Small” during class.
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The director of the club’s Centre for Problem Gamblers, Poon Yan Chi, says
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young people view gambling as a way of making easy money and only seek help
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when the losses - in Macau and elsewhere - mount.
(c) dFS - Int’t Fc Another pull to the gaming tables is boredom says Poon and he called on
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exchange mall families. Gaming operators also share responsibility, according to the centre’s
Great Food Hall director, they should bar the entrance of minors to their establishments.
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Rich truffle
Park’n Shop An Italian white truffle weighing just over 1 kg (2.2 lb) sold at an international auction for
Swindon - 370 Ocean centre $234,000 (almost 1.9 million patacas). The prized tuber went for the second year running
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rome, London, Abu dhabi and macau. Last december, Ho bought a 1.5-kg specimen -
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one of the biggest truffles unearthed in half a century - for a record $330,000 (2.64 million
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patacas). The 1.08-kg truffle - the biggest found in Italy this year - was flown first class to
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macau, with an Italian chef accompanying it, for the auction at SJm’s Grand Lisboa, after it
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was picked on November 21 in the central molise region.
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