South Korean police have launched an investigation into local users of Polymarket over alleged illegal gambling, as the prediction-market platform faces mounting regulatory scrutiny while expanding its presence in Asia. Gangwon Provincial Police recently opened the probe at the request of the Korean National Police Agency, according to the provincial police force’s cyber investigation unit. The pr...
South Korean police have launched an investigation into local users of Polymarket over alleged illegal gambling, as the prediction-market platform faces mounting regulatory scrutiny while expanding its presence in Asia. Gangwon Provincial Police recently opened the probe at the request of the Korean National Police Agency, according to the provincial police force’s cyber investigation unit. The probe is focused on domestic Polymarket users, not the platform itself, the unit said. They declined to specify how many people are under investigation. The probe was first reported by Chosun Biz. Polymarket is a platform that lets users bet on the outcomes of real-world events, such as elections, using cryptocurrencies. The New York-headquartered firm has in recent weeks encountered several stumbling blocks in Asia, as it expands globally. South Korea’s media regulator said in May that it was reviewing whether Polymarket hosts illegal gambling content. Several contracts tied to outcomes in the country’s June 3 local elections had appeared on the platform. The country enforces strict anti-gambling laws, restricting most betting activity — such as horse racing and sports betting — to state-authorized channels. Later in May, Polymarket was banned and labeled a form online gambling in Indonesia, after a bet on the possible early end of President Prabowo Subianto ’s tenure circulated widely on social media. Read More: Polymarket Banned in Indonesia After Bets on Prabowo’s Ouster The company recently appointed a representative in Japan and is preparing to lobby for the authorization of prediction markets in the country, Bloomberg News reported previously.
Deeply negative sentiment may be setting the stage for a recovery in Indian equities, according to Devina Mehra, Chairperson and MD of First Global. She argues that widespread pessimism and heightened focus on risks historically improve the probability of stronger market returns, while valuations are not as elevated as commonly perceived. She spoke with Menaka Doshi on Bloomberg's Insight with Has...
Deeply negative sentiment may be setting the stage for a recovery in Indian equities, according to Devina Mehra, Chairperson and MD of First Global. She argues that widespread pessimism and heightened focus on risks historically improve the probability of stronger market returns, while valuations are not as elevated as commonly perceived. She spoke with Menaka Doshi on Bloomberg's Insight with Haslinda Amin (Source: Bloomberg)
Hong Kong financial stocks fell after a report that some banks have suspended opening bank accounts for clients in mainland China, as part of a broader push to stem capital flight after Beijing launched a crackdown on illegal cross-border trading. Bloomberg Intelligence's Francis Chan and Steven Lam discuss the implications. (Source: Bloomberg)
Hong Kong financial stocks fell after a report that some banks have suspended opening bank accounts for clients in mainland China, as part of a broader push to stem capital flight after Beijing launched a crackdown on illegal cross-border trading. Bloomberg Intelligence's Francis Chan and Steven Lam discuss the implications. (Source: Bloomberg)
Producer of The Rest is … podcasts reports sales of £37.9m, boosted by rise in subscriptions and live events The media production company co-founded by the former England footballer Gary Lineker and behind The Rest is … podcasts is now the fastest-growing business in Britain in a new ranking. Goalhanger made £37.9m in sales in 2025, growing at an average annual rate of 321% over the past three yea...
Producer of The Rest is … podcasts reports sales of £37.9m, boosted by rise in subscriptions and live events The media production company co-founded by the former England footballer Gary Lineker and behind The Rest is … podcasts is now the fastest-growing business in Britain in a new ranking. Goalhanger made £37.9m in sales in 2025, growing at an average annual rate of 321% over the past three years, according to the latest Sunday Times list of the 100 quickest-growing private companies. Continue reading...
Jess Asato’s lawyer says others want to take action over demeaning sexualised material created by Grok AI tool New claimants have come forward to take legal action against Elon Musk’s company xAI after the Labour MP Jess Asato launched a test case against the firm over demeaning sexualised material created by its Grok AI tool. A handful of complainants contacted Asato’s lawyer on Thursday in respo...
Jess Asato’s lawyer says others want to take action over demeaning sexualised material created by Grok AI tool New claimants have come forward to take legal action against Elon Musk’s company xAI after the Labour MP Jess Asato launched a test case against the firm over demeaning sexualised material created by its Grok AI tool. A handful of complainants contacted Asato’s lawyer on Thursday in response to coverage of the MP’s decision to sue Musk’s company for damages over its creation and circulation of fake images of her in a bikini and an AI-created video that she said showed her “being chloroformed and prepared for a sexual assault”. Continue reading...
Nicola Walker is a furious mother who decimates her best mate’s life after he sleeps with her daughter in an excruciating wrongcom. Plus, the LGBTQ+ adoption drama that has made waves There’s a brilliantly cringe take on intergenerational romance in this comedy starring Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement as the titular middle-aged best friends. Their relationship is shattered when Steve accidentall...
Nicola Walker is a furious mother who decimates her best mate’s life after he sleeps with her daughter in an excruciating wrongcom. Plus, the LGBTQ+ adoption drama that has made waves There’s a brilliantly cringe take on intergenerational romance in this comedy starring Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement as the titular middle-aged best friends. Their relationship is shattered when Steve accidentally falls for Alice’s 26-year-old daughter Izzy (Yali Topol Margalith). Alice and Steve (created by Sex Education writer Sophie Goodhart) rightly doesn’t shy away from the messiness of the whole scenario and instead leans into it with great relish. Alice’s fury leads to some terrible behaviour on all sides – there’s a new contender for the most excruciating TV dinner party of all time. But the story is nuanced and sympathetic, too. And the cast, Walker in particular, are sublime. Phil Harrison Disney+, from Monday Continue reading...
In this week’s newsletter: Utah’s gargantuan Stratos development is the latest battleground in the AI-driven fight for water, energy, and our environmental future • Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Kevin O’Leary is many things. He is a flamboyant venture capitalist, co-host of the TV show Shark Tank, vocal supporter of Donald Trump and, recently, a villainous tycoon (o...
In this week’s newsletter: Utah’s gargantuan Stratos development is the latest battleground in the AI-driven fight for water, energy, and our environmental future • Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Kevin O’Leary is many things. He is a flamboyant venture capitalist, co-host of the TV show Shark Tank, vocal supporter of Donald Trump and, recently, a villainous tycoon (or, in his character’s words, a vampire born in 1601) in the Oscar-nominated Marty Supreme. For the people of Utah, however, O’Leary is the highly controversial face of a new climate controversy. I’ll explain why, after this week’s most important reads. Prepare for imminent return of El Niño, UN warns ‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: academics set out sweeping vision for planetary survival Damaged, deserted, dilapidated … what comes next for the Great Barrier Reef island resorts lying in ruins? Continue reading...
From boat trips on Lake Garda to zip-wiring in Wales, you share your favourite family-friendly breaks in Europe • Tell us about a glamorous seaside hotel that didn’t break the bank? The best tip wins a £200 holiday voucher Lake Garda gave us one of the most memorable and unexpected family holidays yet. We hired a car and headed from Milan to Unesco-listed Peschiera del Garda and the family-focused...
From boat trips on Lake Garda to zip-wiring in Wales, you share your favourite family-friendly breaks in Europe • Tell us about a glamorous seaside hotel that didn’t break the bank? The best tip wins a £200 holiday voucher Lake Garda gave us one of the most memorable and unexpected family holidays yet. We hired a car and headed from Milan to Unesco-listed Peschiera del Garda and the family-focused apartment we found on Airbnb. A gentle 15-minute walk to the lakeside restaurants and gelaterias, this was the perfect base for exploring the beautiful town. Special mentions go to: Gelateria la Romana , with its wonderful ice-cream; the boat trip to Sirmione, an old town with thermal springs on a narrow peninsula; and, further up the lake, picturesque Malcesine and the cable car to the top of Monte Baldo to watch paragliders and to take in the amazing views. Alex Continue reading...
In her first novel for adults, the YA author explores the dark side of writers who fictionalise their children’s lives Children’s writers are sometimes cruel, and often damaged. And, as AS Byatt put it crisply when talking about her 2009 novel The Children’s Book: “Writing children’s books isn’t good for the writer’s own children.” Think of Christopher Milne, raging at having been Christopher Robi...
In her first novel for adults, the YA author explores the dark side of writers who fictionalise their children’s lives Children’s writers are sometimes cruel, and often damaged. And, as AS Byatt put it crisply when talking about her 2009 novel The Children’s Book: “Writing children’s books isn’t good for the writer’s own children.” Think of Christopher Milne, raging at having been Christopher Robin; Vivian Burnett, dragging Little Lord Fauntleroy behind him; Alastair Grahame, lying down on train tracks. This is fertile material, as Byatt recognised, for a grown-up book. The American author Melissa Albert, herself a very successful children’s writer, has made it the theme of her first adult novel. The Children’s protagonist is Guinevere Sharpe, who as a grown woman is trapped by a very public version of her childhood. Her mother, Edith, a sort of JK Rowling/Enid Blyton composite, wrote an era-defining run of children’s portal fantasies called the Ninth City series, in which Guin and her older brother Ennis appeared as the named protagonists. Continue reading...
Critics say high drop-out rate among under-18 army recruits make it a poor means of tackling youth unemployment Young people looking for employment should “really seriously take a look at the armed forces”, according to the veterans minister, Louise Sandher-Jones, and with more than 1 million 16 to 24-year-olds not in education, employment or training (Neets), everyone that age is aware of how ble...
Critics say high drop-out rate among under-18 army recruits make it a poor means of tackling youth unemployment Young people looking for employment should “really seriously take a look at the armed forces”, according to the veterans minister, Louise Sandher-Jones, and with more than 1 million 16 to 24-year-olds not in education, employment or training (Neets), everyone that age is aware of how bleak the job market is at present. But not all agree about whether the military is the answer. Alexandra Williams is from rural Lincolnshire and studied law at a university in Manchester. She went in with the intention of becoming a lawyer, but early on was led to believe that would be impossible. “One of my lecturers was like: you’ve got no contacts, you’re not going to get anywhere,” she says. Continue reading...
Dinnerstein/Baroklyn (Naïve) With a refreshingly organic approach, the US pianist and her string ensemble revitalise the modern minimalist master’s score for The Hours and his Tirol Concerto Getting ahead of next year’s 90th birthday celebrations, American pianist Simone Dinnerstein presents two works by Philip Glass, performing alongside her own string ensemble. Baroklyn – the name conflates her ...
Dinnerstein/Baroklyn (Naïve) With a refreshingly organic approach, the US pianist and her string ensemble revitalise the modern minimalist master’s score for The Hours and his Tirol Concerto Getting ahead of next year’s 90th birthday celebrations, American pianist Simone Dinnerstein presents two works by Philip Glass, performing alongside her own string ensemble. Baroklyn – the name conflates her home borough of Brooklyn and the baroque sensibilities of JS Bach – take a far-from-mechanical approach to the composer’s minimalist tics. Their aim is to emulate the passage of time like sand through an hourglass (hence the title) rather than chopping the music into segments like the hands of a clock. And it works. Arranged by Michael Riesman, Suite from The Hours splices Glass’s score for Stephen Daldry’s film into an almost symphonic three-movement work. The story’s pain and poetry is encapsulated in an immersive score for piano, strings, harp and celesta, with Dinnerstein raising the emotional stakes by adopting considerably slower tempi than the movie soundtrack. Continue reading...