Lottery ticket sales 'are set for radical change'

[Walter Travolta]

and I thought gambling was illegal in Thailand

[lostinisaan]

"The team will interrogate lottery sellers to find out the source of the problem. We will take recourse to the Revenue Code, which is known to crack down on mafias,'' he said.

But the Nigerian scammers, drug dealers, child porn sellers are free to continue working without work permits, they don't even need visas.

The show must got on...

[sandyf]

Should we laugh or should we cry??

A government, that have granted itself absolute power, has not managed to solve the lottery ticket price issue after more than one year in power!!

And those clowns are supposed to run the country..........

Rome wasn't built in a day. There has been a lot going on with the lottery that many on here will be unaware of. There was illegal lottery ticket schemes on the go that have been stamped out. I know someone that used to sell the illegal tickets but she was forced out of business and had to take up selling the legitimate lottery tickets. The illegal tickets are no longer available in this area, the risk and penalty became too great.

[PETERTHEEATER]

A previous government signed a contract with CAMELOT UK to set up an electronic lottery within Thailand. The machines were imported and 'D' day date agreed but then the government cancelled the project and had to pay Camelot a large sum of money for violating the agreed contract. Middlemen can't make money off a properly run ele tronic game so it doesn't fit the Thai culture.