Cockfighting is Big Business in HCM City
Lam Van Tay, a breeder of ornamental cocks in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Tan District, has brought along two small cocks to show them off. The beautiful birds suddenly flare their neck feathers, angrily flap their wings, and aggressively attack each other with raised claws. Read More »Betting Ads During Sports Games Not Welcome in Vietnam
Live broadcast of European football matches is causing a headache in Vietnam where betting is completely outlawed because of stadium advertising by bookmakers in Vietnamese and other languages. Read More »Vietnamese Man Held for Gambler’s Death in Cambodia
Cambodian police Tuesday arrested Nguyen Thi Bich Lan, a member of the loan shark ring in Svay Rieng Province that allegedly caused the death of a Vietnamese gambler on August 9. Read More »Police: Vietnamese Journalist’s Murder Mystery Solved
Previously we reported about the case of Vietnamese journalist Le Hoang Hung who died after he was burned in sleep. Because of his work uncovering corruption and abuses of power, people originally speculated that the murder attempt was retribution… Read More »One of the Perks of Tet in Vietnam: Gambling
In Vietnam, there are only a handful of casinos and they are all restricted to those with a foreign passport. Besides state-run lotteries, gambling of any kind is prohibited… except for the few days of the Lunar New Year, that is. During Tet, many Vietnamese can be seen in the streets gambling, even young children.Despite strict Vietnamese laws, gambling and betting remain widespread in Vietnam, from cockfighting, to sports betting, to Vietnamese going online to gamble at overseas casinos. Read More »
