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Of those who reported having gambled in the past 12 months, around 14 per cent had a clinical or sub-clinical gambling disorder.
This was similar to Maori at 16 per cent, but much higher than Europeans at 8 per cent.
"A substantially higher proportion of Asian adults develop a gambling-related problem . . . this will increase if or when participation rates increase," said Abbott.
"In the future, it is highly likely that the prevalence of problem gambling and related harm will increase substantially in New Zealand's Asian population."
Overall, the total gambling population had dropped from 80 per cent in 2012 to 75 per cent in 2015.
The study found participation fell across most gambling forms including electronic gaming machines and casino table games.
But rates of problem gambling had not similarly dropped and gambling continued to also impact on Māori and Pacific people.
Ivan Yeo, Asian Family Services deputy director, said Asian cultural beliefs and values - such as "face saving" - exacerbated gambling harm.
"Individuals isolate themselves by refusing to attend social events for fear of being stigmatised, exacerbating feelings of shame and the experience of other harmful outcomes," Yeo said.
"Shame and stigma affect social and community connectedness, and severely impede help-seeking, early detection and future treatment."
Yeo said limited English ability, difficulties in finding jobs, being away from family and having significant spare cash and free time were among the reasons why many Asian migrants turned to gambling.
His advice for those who thought they had a gambling problem was not to try to fix the problem themselves and to seek professional help early.
Check out our extensive coverage on WAVY.com of the Something in the Water inaugural festival.
That's right it's Easter Weekend. Aside from the big day on Sunday, you can check out one of the biggest basketball tournaments in the nation as well as celebrate countries from around the world.
Different art mediums -- from music, poetry, dance and art -- the Something in the Water festival promises it all.
For the 2018-2019 Season of the Downing-Gross Cultural Art Center unveils a new art exhibit titled "The Evolution of Initial Impact."
Men's Fashion is taking over the 757.
Nauticus is celebrating it's 25th birthday by bringing a unique and mesmerizing treat for us all! The Albesila Luminarium will be at MacArthur Center Green in Downtown Norfolk from April 12 to April 21.
Nauticus is celebrating their 25th birthday by bringing a massive, inflatable maze of art and light to Downtown Norfolk this week.
Grab your baskets, Easter is right around the corner!
Your kids will be hopping for joy this weekend at the anual Eggstravaganza in Suffolk.
A ticket to this event gets you food, drink and free admission to many dowtown Hampton attractions.
The cherry blossom trees at Red Wing Park are in full bloom and ready for the annual Virginia Beach Cherry Blossom Festival on Sunday.
The September 2017 crash occurred during a pleasure flight for the Montgomery Gentry singer at Flying W Airport in Burlington County.
MEDFORD - Federal investigators say pilot error following engine maintenance problems caused the helicopter crash last year that killed Montgomery Gentry singer Troy Gentry and the pilot in South Jersey.
A final report issued Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board says the pilot cut the engine too soon as he tried an emergency landing, leading to an uncontrolled descent.
The September 2017 crash occurred during a pleasure flight for Gentry at the Flying W Airport in Medford, where he was to perform that night at the airport’s resort.
Gentry, 50, was half of the award-winning country music duo Montgomery Gentry.
According to the NTSB, pilot James Evan Robinson of Medford said he had previously done the emergency maneuver — known as an autorotation — but apparently cut the engine ahead of the runway before crashing in the woods.
"I began to see individual blades instead of a translucent disc," a helicopter flight instructor, who was on scene and communicated with the pilot through radio transmissions, told the NTSB.
The helicopter, a Schweizer 269, initially experienced problems when a mechanical assembly that allows the pilot to control the engine's revolutions per minute through a twist grip failed.
"The damage was consistent with an incorrectly adjusted throttle control tie rod assembly," the NTSB wrote of an examination of parts from the wreckage.
That flight instructor was one of three instructors — including one who is also a Federal Aviation Administration inspector — attempting to coach the 30-year-old pilot to a safe landing.
After Robinson radioed a problem with the helicopter, the pilots discussed emergency landing options, the report said.
The instructors suggested a run-on landing — similar to the way a fixed-wing aircraft would approach a runway on a gradual horizontal plane — but Robinson said a previous attempt at that maneuver was unsuccessful "and announced that he would stop the engine and perform a power-off autorotation."
An autorotation uses air rushing upward through the rotors to keep them spinning rather than through motor power. The maneuver, performed correctly, allows the pilot to safely descend the helicopter before landing.
"During the descent, the rotor rpm decayed to the point where the instructor could see the individual rotor blades. The helicopter descended from view before reaching the runway threshold, and the sounds of impact were heard," the report said.
After learning Robinson last performed an autorotation to a landing four months earlier, the instructors apparently had tried to convince him to try the other maneuver.
"Subsequent attempts to convince the pilot to attempt a run-on landing were unsuccessful," the report notes.
With Robinson intent on an autorotation, the instructors urged him not to start the maneuver until he was over the runway.
The pilot started the autorotation about 950 feet above the ground and about a quarter-mile from the runway, the report said.
One instructor told the NTSB he could see the helicopter pitch forward and, instead of seeing the bottom of the aircraft, "all I could see was the cockpit glass and rotor head."
The NTSB report also found fault with how the helicopter was maintained.
"Contributing to the accident was the failure of maintenance personnel to properly rig the throttle control tie-rod assembly, which resulted in an in-flight separation of the assembly and rendered control of engine rpm impossible," it said.
March 8, 2019 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) Friday has called on the Sudanese army to join the revolution and take the side of the protesters calling to oust the regime of president Omer al-Bashir.
Since last December, the Sudanese government has been facing unprecedented protests calling for the resignation of President Omer al-Bashir. But the latter refuses this demand saying the opposition has to prepare for the general election in April 2020.
The SPA is an umbrella organization of trade unions spearheading the demonstrations across the country.
In a live video aired on the SPA Facebook page on Friday, a spokesperson of the umbrella organization Al-Muntasir Ahmed said the regime seeks to push the protesters to resort to violence.
He was commenting on video footage that went viral on social media on Thursday in which dozens of armed security forces, police and government militias on four-wheel-drive vehicles appear wondering around a famous square in Burri neighbourhood and calling on protesters to come out of their homes and meet them.
Ahmed pointed out that they handed over the video to the international rights groups, saying “we told them that the regime is pushing the streets [protesters] to adopt violence”.
He conveyed four messages from the SPA to the protesters , Sudanese army, international community and the “critical mass” including the youths and the Islamists.
He described the Sudanese army as the “giant”, asking it to take the side of the people.
Last January, Defence Minister, Awad Ibn Ouf, and the Army’s Chief of General Staff Kamal Abdel-Marouf vowed full support to President al-Bashir saying the army wouldn’t hand over the country to the “homeless”.
Ahmed further called on the international community to support the revolution, saying the SPA realizes that international relations are based upon mutual interests.
The SPA spokesperson also urged the “critical mass” including the youths and the Islamists who are taking a neutral position towards the protests to join the revolution.
Since December 2018, over 33 people were killed across the country according to the Sudanese authorities but activists and rights groups say the death toll is over 50 people.
Also, hundreds of demonstrators have been injured and thousands arrested.
Late last month, the Sudanese government said it has released 2430 out of 2650 protesters.
The 16-year-old SEA Games gold medallist is also aiming do well in her next competitions in Portland and Havana to cap off a stellar 2017.
Having tasted bronze and silver at last month's Asean Modern Pentathlon Championships, the 13-year old wants to compete in more such events.
Fencer Lau Ywen: Singapore’s next big sporting star?
Lau Ywen’s cadet sabre world title win in April sets her up as one to watch over the next two Olympic cycles.
Channel NewsAsia brings you live updates of the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Hate them or love them, the Kardashians aren't going anywhere.
NBCUniversal has just finalized a new deal with the famous family to extend the Keeping Up with the Kardashians franchise for another three years, The Hollywood Reporter reports. The new report also refutes rumors that Kim and company signed a massive $100 million deal to keep them on E!
According to Page Six, momager Kris Jenner secured the massive amount for Kim, Khloe and Kourtney as well as Kendall and Kylie Jenner. The $100 million figure would have marked the highest in TV history for a reality brand. However, "the story is grossly inaccurate," an NBCUniversal spokesperson tells THR.
While there are no details on how much the family is actually receiving -- though we can only guess that it's still pretty massive -- what's clear is that the new deal doesn't include Bruce Jenner, who's reportedly getting his own E! docuseries later this year following his rumored gender transition. He is confirmed to...
"[The new series] will air when he is ready to be open about his transition," a source told People earlier this month.
VIDEO: Bruce Jenner's Car Crash -- Who's Really at Fault?
Last month, Kim Kardashian stopped by ET, when she shared that Bruce is actually "the happiest" she's ever seen him.
"I think everyone goes through things in life, and I think that story and what Bruce is going through, I think he'll share whenever the time is right," she said. "I feel like that's his journey to talk about."
LYNDONVILLE, N.Y. -- Nov. 18, 2015 -- Monroe Electronics, the global leader in emergency communications solutions for video services providers, today announced the successful completion of the first ever multilingual Emergency Alert System (EAS) test, conducted in coordination with the Federal Emergency Management Agen...
"We are very excited that the DASDEC's multilingual tools proved to be helpful in supporting FEMA's regional alert test," said Edward Czarnecki, Monroe Electronics' senior director for strategy and global government affairs. "The successful completion of this test gives us and our broadcast partners conf...
This successful test represents a number of firsts for the U.S. Emergency Alert System, including the first transmission of a multilingual alert message by FEMA and the first use of multilingual alerting as part of a live regional test.
During the live test, FEMA initiated a National Periodic Test (NPT) through DASEOC emergency communications platform as a Common Alerting Protocol message in English and Spanish. The bilingual EAS test message was sent at 1:20 p.m. PST at the FEMA demonstration booth at the International Association of Emergency Manage...
Broadcast stations using DASDEC systems equipped with OmniLingual Alert Module(TM) software were able to display the alert in the language of their choice -- English, Spanish, or both -- including the full expanded alert text, plus audio in both languages. Participating stations with this technology included Entravisio...
Participating stations from Entravision, the largest affiliate group of both the top-ranked Univision television network and Univision's UniMas network, automatically aired the Spanish version of the FEMA NPT, followed by the English version. Other participating stations, such as Minnesota's TPT, coupled thei...
"For more than a decade, ECHO and Twin Cities PBS have been working on meeting the needs of our increasingly diverse audiences to support public health, safety, and emergency messaging. With community input and our partnerships, we can support the needs of warning and alert systems," said Lillian McDonald, Managing Dir...
The DASDEC is currently utilized by the large majority of broadcast television stations across the nation, as well as radio stations, universities, and a variety of government facilities. The DASEOC emergency communications platform is used by numerous states and counties to provide interoperable alert messaging capabi...
Monroe Electronics began operations in 1954 designing and manufacturing specialized electrostatic discharge (ESD) instrumentation that continues today. From its headquarters in Lyndonville, New York, the company provides R&D, manufacturing, sales, and customer service for all Monroe Electronics, One-Net(TM), and Digita...
The New York Times Magazine recently focused on Americans splurging on mood-altering drugs for their pets.
Inevitably, the question emerges: Do animals think and feel? Are they self-aware? Are they…conscious?
Philosophers argue we can't know what goes on in an animal's mind because they don't share human language.
But recent research is breaking down that barrier to find out how self-aware animals are. Columbia's Herb Terrace and Nate Kornell trained monkeys to make bets: The primates wagered on how well they knew something.
Thinking about one's thinking is called metacognition, and thus far it's been attributed only to humans.
In their study, published in Psychological Science, monkeys bet on whether they knew the answer to a question. They won tokens by betting correctly that they either knew or didn’t know the answer.
The monkeys did so well at the gambling that they appeared to have the self-awareness required for thinking about their knowledge.
But researchers don't call this consciousness. They call it self-reflective behavior, similar to programmed robots. The monkey might be linking "a long pause" with "don't know the answer".
It was a political hot potato they just weren’t willing to pick up.
The municipality’s 23 councillors wouldn’t touch a new proposal for a high-speed ferry service between Halifax and Bedford at last night’s regular council meeting — opting to defer debate on the matter until January.
The unsolicited proposal from WaterLink Transportation was submitted by local businessman Jay Hasson, who recently purchased two hovercrafts that he wants to put to use in a two-year pilot project linking Bedford to the downtown core.
Hasson said he could have the service up and running by February and asked council to approve his idea in principle — but councillors weren’t biting, and they voted overwhelmingly to move the item to their next meeting.
A municipally backed fast-ferry project has been in the works for years, but has been in dry dock since April because a business plan was not completed quickly enough.
In other council news yesterday, it looks like the municipality’s race-relations committee won’t be resurrected anytime soon.
During yesterday’s afternoon session, several councillors expressed a desire to see the committee re-formed to help deal with the over-representation of African-Nova Scotian youth in the justice system. The group was disbanded last year during a major review of the city’s boards and committees.
But Halifax Regional Police Chief Frank Beazley told council that the current system of holding regular meetings between himself, HRM public safety officer Don Spicer, Dr. Donald Clairmont and several prominent members of the black community in HRM has been working just fine.
Beazley said the consultations, which began last summer, are expected to continue in 2010.
Violation of the prohibitions is punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 and imprisonment for up to 12 months, or both.
LAS CRUCES - The Bureau of Land Management Las Cruces District implemented fire restrictions on June 7 in order to reduce the risk of wildfire on public land in Doña Ana, Otero, Luna, Sierra, Grant and Hidalgo counties. When visiting public lands, visitors needs to be aware of the prohibited acts in the fire restrictio...
Building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire, charcoal, coal or wood stove. The use of stoves fueled by pressurized liquid or gas (can be turned off) within areas cleared of flammable materials at least 10 feet in diameter is allowed.

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