Fubon Bank is about to launch a sports lottery in Taiwan.
"We will launch a sports lottery on May 2," said Yang Jui-tung, vice president of the Taipei branch of Fubon Bank in an interview with Broadcasting Corp of China. "In the initial stage, we will introduce betting on local and overseas baseball, basketball and soccer."
Jui-tung added that the operation will expand to cover more sports in the future. "We will cover US baseball, basketball and European soccer games. As European soccer games are played Saturday evening, which is Saturday night in Taiwan, we will also have Japanese and South Korean soccer games so that on Sunday, we also have games to bet on," he said.