{"id":777034030,"date":"2025-11-03T06:49:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T09:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777034030"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:32:54","slug":"thai-pm-reaffirms-anti-casino-stance-in-talks-with-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thai-pm-reaffirms-anti-casino-stance-in-talks-with-beijing","title":{"rendered":"Thai PM reaffirms anti-casino stance in talks with Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Anutin says that most Thais oppose the legalisation of gambling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Thailand.- Thai prime minister Anutin Charnvirakul<\/strong> has reiterated his opposition to gambling and said that his government will not consider allowing casino. He made the comments during a bilateral meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping<\/strong> at the APEC Economic Leaders’ gathering in South Korea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anutin said most Thais oppose the legalisation of gambling. President Xi commended Thailand’s decision and said China will take more steps to discourage its citizens from traveling abroad for casino tourism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These statements follow Anutin\u2019s decision to reinstate the ban on poker<\/a> and all card games associated with gambling. The Pheu Thai Party has warned<\/a> that the move may cost the country 1.4bn baht<\/strong> a year in lost revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Jeju police make 21 arrests in operation against illegal gambling network<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anutin says that most Thais oppose the legalisation of gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2395,"featured_media":777031352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has reaffirmed his government's opposition to gambling legalization, specifically casinos, and reinstated a ban on poker and card games. This stance was commended by China's President Xi Jinping, who pledged further measures to deter Chinese citizens from engaging in overseas casino tourism. The Pheu Thai Party estimates a potential annual revenue loss of 1.4 billion baht for Thailand due to this prohibition.","focusai_entities":"Anutin Charnvirakul, Xi Jinping, Pheu Thai Party","focusai_location":"Thailand, China, South Korea","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Thailand GGR Impact?","query":"What is the estimated long-term GGR impact on regional integrated resorts and iGaming operators given Thailand's definitive stance against gambling legalization?"},{"label":"China Tourism Effect?","query":"How will China's reinforced policy to discourage outbound casino tourism specifically affect the NGR and VIP segment performance of established gaming jurisdictions in Southeast Asia?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,154],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-777034030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-legislation-news","tag-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034030","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\/2395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777034030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777034042,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034030\/revisions\/777034042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777031352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777034030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777034030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777034030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}