Beijing shut down Internet cafes around the city Monday and state media branded Web games played at them a drug preying on China's youth after a fire killed 24 people at an unlicensed Cyber cafe. As ...

China shut down more than 130,000 illegal Internet cafes in the country over a six year period, as part of crackdown to control the market, according to a new Chinese government report. Internet cafes ...

ANTIOCH — After a four-year run, Internet cafes that offer sweepstakes games meant to feel like casino-style gambling are on the way out of here. Cot on the Web, Antioch’s lone remaining cafe in ...

The Ohio General Assembly has begun deliberating how the state should regulate sweepstakes games, a move that could give legitimacy to this controversial but burgeoning industry. How many sweepstakes ...

Many Internet cafes that have popped up in suburban strip malls and gas stations offer something more than coffee and access to the Web and email. Known as Internet sweepstakes cafes, they sell time ...

All you need to understand about digitalization and technological advancement in Latin America can be learned by tracing the evolution of a single cultural phenomenon in the region: Internet cafés.

They have served as crucibles for the country’s online culture and as schools and sanctuaries for its marginalized migrant workers. But according to a new report from the Ministry of Culture, China’s ...

LIMA — One of Allen County’s two Internet cafés was open for business Monday while the other was preparing to reopen. Both are named 777 Sweeps Stakes. One is at 1980 Elida Road, right at the ...

A quick Monday afternoon check by a Dayton Daily News reporter of some local Internet sweepstakes cafés show that most appear to be closed after a new state law that limits their operations went into ...

A giant flat-screen TV hangs from the ceiling at El Rinconcito Internet Cafe in southwest Santa Rosa, replaying the morning’s World Cup soccer game as boys with buzz cuts play video games or watch ...

Yet Internet cafe operators may soon wish they were organized, for the business is increasingly under attack. In Europe, Greece and Germany have led the way in efforts to require "gaming licenses" for ...