Don’t be stupid” Hun Sen, cambodian prime minister, said in a 5 hours speech in August 2012, in response to opposition criticism that the gambling dens were harmful to the country.“You force me to talk about it.

“I don’t like casinos, but the biggest goal for giving permission to build casinos is to protect the border” “One can remove border markers, but one can’t remove five-storey hotels. Casinos have become the hottest new business for former opium kingpins, mass murderers and shady politicians.” (Source:Time Asia, 2000) “The border regions in the Golden Triangle formed by the intersection of Burma, Laos and Thailand have long been lawless zones where rebel groups hold sway the smuggling of drugs, weapons, timber and people flourishes aids and malaria are rife.