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Casino Numbers Rise Over 50% in 2018

About 150 casinos are now in operation, up from 98 in 2017. In the coastal province of Sihanoukville alone there are 88. The law bans Cambodians from entering casinos. For PIME missionary, “it is difficult to assess the consequences of the trend because all this has happened so fast”.

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Phnom Penh (AsiaNews) – Cambodia granted 52 licences to casinos in 2018; that pushed the number of gambling facilities up by 53 per cent over the previous year, the Ministry of Economy and Finance reported.

 

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

This has turned the province and its homonymous provincial capital into one of Asia’s gambling meccas. Both have experienced a building boom in the past few years thanks to a steady flow of Chinese investment in hotels, casinos and real estate.

However, one of the side effects of China’s growing presence and investments, especially in south-western Cambodia, has been crime and instability, Provincial Governor Yun Min said in a letter to the central government.

The presence of so many gambling facilities is a source of concern for its impact on locals. Although Cambodians are not allowed in the casinos, groups like the Affiliated Network for Social Accountability have warned that more and more of them are falling into poverty from gambling.

“From a social point of view, casinos worry the Church”, said Fr Gianluca Tavola, superior delegate of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) in Cambodia.

According to the clergyman, “no one believes that a casino can deliver well-being, social balance and the common good. In my opinion, today it is difficult to assess the consequences of the trend because all this has happened so fast over the past two to three years.”

“The city of Sihanoukville is just one big construction site. An invasion is taking place with Chinese nationals and companies scooping up land and businesses. This has forced several local and foreign businesses to sell, cease their activities or move east, to Kampot. In fact, Western tourists now prefer the latter, boosting local resorts.”

http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Casino-boom-in-Cambodia:–53-per-cent-in-2018-only-45865.html

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John_Galt

Casino's are a good way to get foreign money into the country. 

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andy
On ‎1‎/‎5‎/‎2019 at 4:17 PM, John_Galt said:

Casino's are a good way to get foreign money into the country. 

 

There are many on road one Phnom Penh, mostly always empty! But hell the Chinese community is growing and spreading fast. Fastest-growing with restaurants and street café. Signage and menu in Chinese and Chinese. Not a word in Khmer or English. Even massage and Chinese pussy bar on 136

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John_Galt
3 hours ago, andy said:

 

There are many on road one Phnom Penh, mostly always empty! But hell the Chinese community is growing and spreading fast. Fastest-growing with restaurants and street café. Signage and menu in Chinese and Chinese. Not a word in Khmer or English. Even massage and Chinese pussy bar on 136


Their population here is definitely growing. 

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andy

One of the reasons too for my move, 20.000 are due in Koh Kong. The population of the place now with Khmer is 20.000

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