Despite success, Singapore casinos face political risks

Monsters and Critics, 7 Oct 2010
Stories about casino-related crimes have been making headlines in Singapore's media, including cases of gamblers using other people's identity cards to get into the casinos as well as the story of a local businessman losing 26 million Singapore dollars in a three-day gambling spree.
With those sensational stories, and all the other cases of problem gambling that never made it into the newspapers, 'the political risk increases' for the casinos as the authorities might come up with even more safeguards, said da Cunha.
There was also an external dimension to the political risk as 'the hordes of day-trippers coming across the land links from Malaysia will likely see the export of social problems,' he said. Full story

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