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Cambodia: 496 arrested for illegal gambling in first two months of 2024

Authorities carried out 300 raids between January 1 and March 3. Cambodia.- Touch Sokhak, the deputy spokesman of the Ministry of Interior, has revealed that 496 people were arrested in operations at 300 illicit gambling sites in the first two months of the year. According to Sokhak, law enforcement authorities took legal action against 69…
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Cambodia: 496 arrested for illegal gambling in first two months of 2024
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Cambodia implements legal changes for casinos

Cambodia is determined to break away from the ways of old once and for all, especially when this concerns its casino industry. In a new report by The Khmer Times, the media details a new revenue-based tax model that came into effect on December 30, 2022 that will now help the country better regulate its gambling industry and casinos. According to…
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Cambodia executes fresh revenue-based tax model for casinos

From December 30, 2022, Cambodia's Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) began applying the latest revenue-based rules for taxes and procedures for commercial gambling business, aka casinos, to the self-proclaimed regime, after decades of applying a "lump sum" method of taxation, according to a senior official of the ministry. Decision on the…
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Cambodia changes tax rules for commercial gambling businesses

Cambodia has changed tax regulations for commercial gambling businesses, moving towards a self-declaration regime. It has thus changed the lump sum-based system that had been in place since the 1990s. The new rules, the government says, also help implement anti-money laundering and anti-corruption rules, and combat tax evasion. The changes were…
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Cambodia changes tax rules for commercial gambling businesses
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More victims recovered from Cambodia casino hotel fire

POIPET, Cambodia (AP) - The confirmed death toll from a massive fire at a casino hotel complex in western Cambodia rose to 25 on Friday as the search resumed for victims, officials said. The blaze at the Grand Diamond City casino and hotel in the town of Poipet on the Thai border started around midnight Wednesday and was extinguished more than 12…
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Cambodia cranks up illegal gambling crackdown

Cambodian police have cracked down more than 10000 illegal gambling sites and arrested over 200 people over the past month, the National Police confirmed. Speaking at a press conference on "The achievements of the Ministry of Interior over the past five years," National Police spokesman Lieutenant General Chhay Kim Khoeun said, quoted by the Khmer…
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Cambodian police rescue Vietnamese woman from gambling company

Vietnamese escapees from a Cambodian casino rest at a house in An Giang Province, southern Vietnam, August 19, 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Ngoc Tai Police in Cambodia's Sihanoukville City said they rescued a Vietnamese woman from an online gambling firm on Friday as part of a crackdown on illegal labor and human trafficking. The woman, whose identity…
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Cambodian police rescue Vietnamese woman from gambling company
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Cambodia seeks to boost tourism with 70 casino license renewals

Days after more than 40 people made an intrepid crossing from Cambodia and swam through the Mekong River back to Vietnam, the country is attempting to give a boost to its gaming sector and casino industry. The Khmer Times cited information by the General Secretariat of the Commercial Gambling Management Commission of Cambodia which confirmed that…
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Cambodia renews 47 casino licenses in bid to boost sector

Cambodia's Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) says it has renewed 47 casino licenses and another seven games of chance licenses as it looks to help the gaming sector rebuild from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The update, provided by the Ministry's General Secretariat of Commercial Gambling Management Commission of Cambodia (CGMC) on…
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Cambodian government renews 70 licenses for casinos and gambling-oriented companies

The General Secretariat of Commercial Gambling Management Commission of Cambodia (CGMC) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has announced the renewal of 70 licenses to casino and game of chance companies in the second quarter of this year. The General Secretariat granted licenses to 47 casinos and seven games of chance companies on Friday,…
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Covid-19, gambling ban leave S’ville biz sulking

Covid-19 and the ban on online gambling have left several businesses in Cambodia's coastal city Sihanoukville sulking with over 1500 multi-million building projects reportedly abandoned midway by investors. The city had a thriving gambling business from 2015 to 2019, but the government suddenly clamped a ban on it in August 2019, forcing many of…
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An estimated 1,000 Thai nationals in clutches of online gambling syndicates in Cambodia

It is estimated that there are at least 1000 more Thais who remain in Cambodia as alleged forced workers and were in need of help. This was revealed by Assistant national police chief Surachate Hakparn kast Thursday after overseeing the rescue of some 500 Thai nationals from several parts of Cambodia, who had been duped into working for supposedly…
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An estimated 1,000 Thai nationals in clutches of online gambling syndicates in Cambodia
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20 Thai online casino workers detained for illegal entry

Immigration police have detained 20 Thai workers who crossed border illegally to work at an online casino in Preah Sihanouk province. The Thai nationals were arrested for illegal entry on Friday in Sihanoukville and are awaiting deportation through Phnom Penh. General Department of Immigration spokesman General Keo Vannthan told Khmer…
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Cambodian-Chinese Operation Ends with Gambling and Crypto Busts

Chinese authorities continue to work with their overseas counterpart in a bid to clamp down on illegal casinos that target nationals. A police raid in Cambodia's capital last week ended up with a brief shootout and 200 people apprehended. Illegal activities, including gambling, continue to thrive around Cambodia as Chinese and Cambodian law…
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CDC rejects Al Jazeera claims of casinos in SEZ’s

The Council for Development of Cambodia (CDC) has rejected outright, an international news report alleging that "many" casinos operate within Cambodian Special Economic Zones (SEZs). Qatar-based Al Jazeera released an article titled "Cambodia's nightlife scene tests Covid success" raising concerns about human trafficking, underaged sex workers in…
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CDC rejects Al Jazeera claims of casinos in SEZ’s