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Online gamers with money to burn, who have neither the time nor patience to battle their way up to the higher levels of games such as World of Warcraft and Magic Land, are willing to pay others to do it for them. A business known as "gold farming" has appeared in China, in which young men, mostly with dim employment prospects, spend hours playing online games, accumulating points,...

A recent report revealed that, spanning the months of January through September, the Chinese government detained and arrested close to 1.2 million people on grounds of illegal betting. Police confiscated almost $300 million in cash and, most damningly, censured 8,740 members of the Communist Party for “cross-border” gambling with public funds. This anti-corruption purge follows growing concerns...

Janis Neulans is a Latvian laborer embarking on a journey that is becoming more and more common these days. Neulans travelled from Latvia to Ireland, where he felt that he could build the type of life for himself that is not possible in his home country. Since Latvia and nine other countries were added to the European Union in May 2004, nearly 450,000 people, most of them from the same strained...