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Casinos are flourishing across Southeast Asia and big investors are keen to build more.
- Published: 23 Jul 2012 at 13.48
- Newspaper section: Asia focus
POIPET: Circling Bangkok’s Lumpini Park looking for passengers, the double-decker bus operated by Cherd Chai Tour company is one of dozens that leave the centre of Thailand’s capital for the Cambodian border every morning.
Casinos are illegal in Thailand but every day hundreds of gamblers make the three-hour journey by express bus to Aranyaprathet on the Thai side of the border to gamble legally at casinos in Poipet, just across the frontier in Cambodia.
Crown Casino, like many others in Poipet, has since June 2010 reimbursed bus fares for Thais who make the trip and offers 100 baht in bonus chips for every customer that cashes in 4,000 baht.
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