Now and then: Lottery dream fading

A woman, surnamed Yang, is taken to court suspected of owing 35,300 yuan to fellow villagers, which was used to buy lottery tickets, in Xiangying village of Zhengzhou, Central China's Henan province in 2006. There are about 7 million addicted lottery buyers among an estimated 200 million customers, with 430,000 having a severe addiction, according to the Online Survey Report on the Behavior of Chinese Lottery Buyers in 2012. [Photo/CFP]