Inside Indonesia’s Offshore Gambling Empire, Part Two: The Crackdown
SPECIAL REPORT, PART TWO: In mid-2024, just before President Prabowo Subianto took office, Indonesia launched a supposed crackdown on online gambling –…
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Khmer And Spend Your Money: Inside Indonesia’s Illicit Offshore Gambling Empire
SPECIAL REPORT: The Indonesian President, Prabowo Subianto, recently said that offshore gambling costs the country around US$8 billion (£4.64 billion) a year and…
Uncle Can You Spare A Crime, Now Thailand Goes To War With Gambling
Barely a month since the ousting of prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra for the crime of calling neighbouring Cambodia strongman Hun Sen “Uncle”…
One Country’s Misfortune is Another Country’s Opportunity, Vietnam Moves Into the Casino Cockpit
Just as Japan’s post-WW2 rebuild was super-powered by the outbreak of the Korean War, so too was Thailand’s society-changing tourist boom triggered…
Gambler, Gambler, Frontier Tensions Hit Thai-Cambodia Border Casinos
In scenes reminiscent of an exotic Bollywood movie, frontier tensions between “frenemies” Thailand and Cambodia are hitting the lucrative cross-border casino business….