The Interior Ministry has banned the arcade "claw crane" machines at many shopping malls, deeming them gambling tools. The order banning the machines was signed by Pawin Chamniprasart, deputy interior ...

For 16-year-old Kuan-ting Lin, teaming up with his father to beat a claw crane game seemed like a winning idea. During a trip to Japan a few months ago, he played the arcade game for the first time ...

As Taiwan’s economy stagnates, claw crane arcades where customers lower a grabber to try to pick up a prize from a glass box are booming as affordable entertainment, while operators see them as a way ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As a mom of four, Le-An Than is always looking for new ways to entertain her kiddos. After all, there are only so many museums and playgrounds to patronize ...

The crane machine—also known as claw machines, crane games and, in Japan, as “UFO catchers” due to their proclivity for aerial abductions—first gripped the public imagination in the early 1900s. Even ...