International gangsters are the big winners in Asian pro sports

Business in Vancouver –  The development of professional sports in Asia is being undermined by endemic match fixing, engineered by international gangs involved in illegal gambling. The problems of match fixing by bought-off players and referees are at their worst in India, where the national sport is cricket, and in China, where it is football. But the corruption has infected most, if not all, Asian regional soccer leagues, with inquiries currently underway into apparent match fixing in Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia. In Taiwan the national sport is baseball, which came to the island nation when it became a Japanese colony…