{"id":9135,"date":"2015-09-30T15:34:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2015\/09\/30\/vietnam-casinos-earn-61-million-last-year-report\/"},"modified":"2015-09-30T15:34:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T15:34:49","slug":"vietnam-casinos-earn-61-million-last-year-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2015\/09\/30\/vietnam-casinos-earn-61-million-last-year-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam casinos earn $61 million last year: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i60.tinypic.com\/2q3tzwk.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\tVietnam&#8217;s eight casinos, only open to foreigners, posted a combined revenue of VND1.379 trillion (US$61.3 million) last year, according to new statistics released at a conference in Hanoi on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Institute for Regional Sustainable Development reported that the casinos paid VND339 billion in taxes last year. <\/p>\n<p>\tVietnam now also has 64 lottery companies and two sports facilities allowing gambling. Lottery companies paid VND20 trillion in taxes after earning a total of VND64 trillion ($2.85 million) in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\tAccording to the institute, illegal gambling activities have been piling up huge profits. <\/p>\n<p>\tThe Ministry of Public Security reported a total of 200 bookies for so de &#8212; an illegal numbers game based on the state lottery &#8212; in 18 cities and provinces earned at least VND500 million every day.<\/p>\n<p>\tLocal people in Vietnam are banned from gambling in any form and many people have traveled to Cambodian casinos.<\/p>\n<p>\tA survey conducted in Tay Ninh Province showed that about 200 people crossed the border to Cambodia for gambling every day. The number rose to 700-800 on weekends.<\/p>\n<p>\tA casino in Cambodia earned about US$250 million a year, mostly from Vietnamese gamblers, the report found.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vietnam&#8217;s eight casinos, only open to foreigners, posted a combined revenue of VND1.379 trillion (US$61.3 million) last year, according to new statistics released at a conference in Hanoi on Wednesday. The Institute for Regional Sustainable Development reported that the casinos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}