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One ring in Chengdu, a city in the southwest, handled one billion yuan (US$120 million; euro100 million) in bets, Xinhua said. But it didn’t give a time period or say how much of that was World Cup-related.

Gambling was outlawed in China after the 1949 communist revolution but has flourished in recent years amid rising incomes and looser social restrictions. The government regularly reports breaking up underground gambling parlors.

The Chengdu group, with 2,000 registered gamblers, was run from abroad, possibly Hong Kong, Macau or Taiwan, the report said.

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