Number of casinos jumps by 53% in 2018

[geovalin]

Cambodia granted 52 licences to casinos last year, bringing the total awarded to 150 at the end of 2018, thanks largely to a surge in gambling businesses in the Kingdom’s Preah Sihanouk province.

 

Figures from the Ministry of Economy and Finance said that there were 53 per cent more licensed casinos at the end of last year compared to the end of 2017 when there were just 98.

 

Ros Phirun, the deputy director-general of the ministry’s General Department of Financial Industry – the gambling business regulator in the Kingdom – said there are 88 casinos in the coastal province alone.

 

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[natway09]

All casinos do is ruin families & the lives of the locals living around them.

You may as well call Sinukeville "Gambling China".

Cambodia has sold their soul !!!

[Top Chef]

Tell that to Las Vegas and Singapore

Edited January 3, 2019 by Top Chef

[balo]

It's only Chinese owners behind all the casinos. They buy all the land available and build casinos , especially in Sihanoukville. 

 

Not sure how much of it ends up in the pockets of the locals.