The websites were shut down for suspected internet gambling between September 2021 and August 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Thailand.-\u00a0Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn<\/strong>, Thailand’s minister of digital economy and society, has reported that 2,819 websites have been closed over the past year\u00a0<\/strong>in a campaign against online gambling. The ministry collects evidence on online gambling and submits it to the court to have the sites taken down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chaiwut noted that the number of sites taken down had more than doubled over the previous year, with 1,259 <\/strong>sites taken down between September 2020 and August 2021<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In July, the Thai committee<\/a> tasked with studying the possibility of allowing integrated resorts with casinos<\/a> submitted its final report to the National Assembly and recommended that the government should issue a decree allowing such developments in key cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The committee said that legalising casinos could allow Thailand to make billions from foreign investors, visitors and Thai gamblers who would otherwise spend their money in neighbouring countries.\u00a0This latter point is one of the most surprising: the legislators are proposing that\u00a0Thais would be allowed to play in casinos<\/strong>, as opposed to the regimes in Vietnam and South Korea that severely restrict locals\u2019 access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The proposal stipulates that Thai nationals over the age of 20 with a bank account containing at least 500,000 baht should be allowed to gamble. The recommendations are based on Thailand\u2019s Gambling Act of 1935, which prohibits most types of wagering but includes a provision that gives the government the power to issue decrees or licenses for certain gambling activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The websites were shut down for suspected internet gambling between September 2021 and August 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Thailand's Ministry of Digital Economy and Society has significantly escalated its crackdown on illegal online gambling, shutting down 2,819 websites in the past year. Concurrently, a parliamentary committee has recommended legalizing integrated resorts with casinos, proposing a framework that would permit qualified Thai nationals to gamble, a notable shift from regional restrictions.","focusai_entities":"Chaiwut Thanakamanusorn, Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, National Assembly","focusai_location":"Thailand, Vietnam, South Korea","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.95), payments_fraud_aml (0.75), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"IR Licensing Framework?","query":"What specific governance frameworks and B2B\/B2C licensing structures are being proposed for the integrated resorts, particularly concerning the proposed access for Thai nationals?"},{"label":"Impact on Illegal Market?","query":"How might the proposed legalization of integrated resorts impact the ongoing efforts to suppress the illegal online gambling market in Thailand, and what are the projected GGR implications?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[23911,4138],"class_list":["post-33591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33614,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33591\/revisions\/33614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}