Gambling ban driving Tens of thousands Chinese nationals away

[geovalin]

Tens of thousands of Chinese nationals are reportedly leaving the Kingdom following a government ban on online gambling intended to reduce the number of crimes committed by foreigners. On August 18, Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a directive banning all online and arcade gambling in the Kingdom in a bid to safeguard security and public order.

 

Mr Hun Sen noted that some licensed online gambling operations rigged their games and threatened those who are not able to repay their gambling debt. “Some foreigners have used this form of gambling to cheat victims inside and outside the country,” Mr Hun Sen said in the directive. “The Royal Government has decided to stop issuing licenses for such operations within and from outside the Kingdom with immediate effect.”

 

Brigadier General Ath Bony, deputy director of the General Administrative Department at the General Department of Immigration, yesterday said more Chinese nationals are leaving in comparison to arriving since the ban was enforced last month. From August 18 until September 7, there were about 140,000 departures of Chinese nationals recorded. Meanwhile, 130,000 Chinese national arrivals were recorded in the same period.

 

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[Damrongsak]

Tens of thousands of Chinese nationals ... gambling, or gaming people ... that's a road to success and happy households. Seriously, if a few percent of them are crooks, relative to the mass of visitors, they can easily overwhelm the Cambodian system.  Armageddon!

[jondoe18]

Casinos in PAttaya 555
dreamers !

[Puchaiyank]

banning all online and arcade gambling in the Kingdom in a bid to safeguard security and public order. 

 

That is the same logic used to harass expats at immigration...must be a catch-all phrase to run off tourists and retirees...????

[hansnl]

4 hours ago, Damrongsak said:

Tens of thousands of Chinese nationals ... gambling, or gaming people ... that's a road to success and happy households. Seriously, if a few percent of them are crooks, relative to the mass of visitors, they can easily overwhelm the Cambodian system.  Armageddon!

It are all class A tourists, the Chinese.

[phycokiller]

I dont quite understand this, so chinese are coming to cambodia to do online gamling? but its on line. they could do it from a hotel room anywhere in the world. maybe its the arcade game part that they are leaving for, whatever that is

[my friend I]

34 minutes ago, phycokiller said:

I dont quite understand this, so chinese are coming to cambodia to do online gamling? but its on line. they could do it from a hotel room anywhere in the world. maybe its the arcade game part that they are leaving for, whatever that is

They are running the online gambling in Cambodia, usually in hotels, because it is illegal in China.

[phantomfiddler]

What a fantastic scam ! Get the Chines to build countless casinos in Sihanoukville, and then ban gambling ????

[bender92]

4 minutes ago, phantomfiddler said:

What a fantastic scam ! Get the Chines to build countless casinos in Sihanoukville, and then ban gambling ????

Not the same. Online gambling is banned, not casinos.

[HarrySeaman]

Lots of the on-line gambling sites were run out of the back rooms of the casinos.  Win-win for the casinos.  Win money from the Chinese who travel to Sihanoukville to gamble and from those who stay at home and gamble on-line. 

 

 

[Burma Bill]

Yippee!! Get rid of them all!

[Burma Bill]

5 hours ago, jondoe18 said:

Casinos in PAttaya 555
dreamers !

Could become a reality with ever decreasing tourist figures!

[jondoe18]

1 hour ago, Burma Bill said:

Could become a reality with ever decreasing tourist figures!

Maybe when the yuan replaces the dollar in the system ..

Or when wholesale opium supplies to China resume!