\nThis was to the boon Cambodia\u2019s casinos, particularly those in the small gambling town of Poipet, 100 miles south of Chong Sai Taku.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nPoipet’s casino strip, which contains nine smallish casinos, is cunningly situated in a kind of gambling no man’s land between the Cambodian and Thai passport control counters.<\/p>\n
Saitaku Resort and Casino\u2019s plan to emulate Poipet\u2019s success, is, unfortunately, not at all going to plan.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, on the Vietnam Border<\/h2>\n
Hoping for better luck will be a newly proposed casino resort that will lie on Cambodia\u2019s northern border with Vietnam, whose citizens are also banned from gambling in most of their homegrown casinos.<\/p>\n
Empire World City, a $200 million property to be developed by Virtue Resorts Corp (interesting name for a company involved in a vice industry), will be located in Bavet City, a short distance from the Moc Bai border crossing with Vietnam.<\/p>\n
Virtue Resorts has said it chose the area because it foresees strong economic growth in there over the next decade. As well as a casino and hotel resort, the property will have an online casino hub and a commercial neighborhood mall. Additional features include a \u201cWater Show Arena.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A new Cambodian casino on the border with Thailand has provoked a bizarre border stand-off between the two countries. Since it\u2019s illegal for the residents of both countries to gamble in casinos, the Saitaku Resort and Casino, which opened several weeks ago at the Chong Sai Taku temporary border crossing in Cambodia\u2019s Ban Kruat district, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":48812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,10,61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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