{"id":777014976,"date":"2024-04-24T09:16:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T12:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777014976"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:52:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:52:34","slug":"cambodia-blocks-25-illegal-gambling-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/cambodia-blocks-25-illegal-gambling-websites","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia blocks 25 illegal gambling websites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cambodia&#8217;s Commercial Gambling Management Commission said the sites illegally\u00a0advertised on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Cambodia.-\u00a0The Commercial Gambling Management Commission of Cambodia (SEC)\u00a0has blocked 25 unauthorised gambling sites. The sites, including Wp333-Cs007, NagaCity88 and Webet.VIP, were found to that had been advertising through social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March,\u00a0prime minister\u00a0<strong>Hun Manet<\/strong>\u00a0urged investors to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/cambodias-prime-minister-calls-for-end-to-gambling-investments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reconsider or halt investments in the country\u2019s gambling sector<\/a>.\u00a0Manet asserted that the government aimed to suspend the issuance of new gambling licences and reduce or revoke existing ones. In 2023,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/cambodia-3155-arrested-for-illegal-gambling-in-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">police conducted 1,786 operations<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>against illegal gambling in Cambodia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia&#8217;s Commercial Gambling Management Commission said the sites illegally\u00a0advertised on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Cambodia's Commercial Gambling Management Commission has blocked 25 unauthorized gambling sites, including Wp333-Cs007, NagaCity88, and Webet.VIP, which were found to be advertising via social media. This action aligns with Prime Minister Hun Manet's directive for investors to reconsider or halt investments in the sector, signaling a governmental intent to suspend new licenses and potentially revoke existing ones, following extensive anti-illegal gambling operations in 2023.","focusai_entities":"Commercial Gambling Management Commission of Cambodia, Wp333-Cs007, NagaCity88, Webet.VIP, Hun Manet","focusai_location":"Cambodia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"License Revocation Criteria","query":"What specific criteria will the Cambodian government employ to evaluate and potentially revoke existing gambling licenses, and what is the projected timeline for such reviews?"},{"label":"Investment Climate Impact","query":"How will the Cambodian government's intensified regulatory stance and the Prime Minister's call for investment reconsideration impact foreign direct investment flows into other regulated sectors within Cambodia?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[439,16333],"tags":[20326],"class_list":["post-777014976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-illegal-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014976","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=777014976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777014989,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777014976\/revisions\/777014989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777014976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777014976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777014976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}