The surge in the number of casino licences is not news to most people here. However, it would be interesting to know how many of them were issued over this past year.

Gaming firms put money on Kingdom’s casinos
Cambodia's gaming sector is growing rapidly on a surge of Chinese investment with a total of 79 casino licences now issued, a government official said yesterday.

Ros Phirun, deputy director of the finance industry department at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, said most of the country’s casinos were concentrated along the country’s borders to attract gamblers from neighbouring countries, while rules that allow brick-and-mortar casinos to operate online gambling were encouraging foreign casino operators to relocate to Cambodia.

“Casino companies continue to flow in to Cambodia with a marked increase in Chinese-owned casino operations recently,” he said, adding that the majority of this new investment was directed to Preah Sihanouk province.
Phnom Penh Post

The King Pharoah karaoke place across from the Square in Shv has been sold and is rapidly being knocked down. Presumably another casino.

How many casinos in Sihanoukville to date? 20?

By the time you've gone round counting them another one will have been built!
. Built with cheapest sought materials and labour no doubt. Probably 10 years life before they crumble to dust.

Luigi wrote: ↑Sun Jun 11, 2017 8:19 pm How many casinos in Sihanoukville to date? 20?

Absolutely no sure info, but for SHV I would double that figure. Every time I turn around there's another casino. I took a photo of the first casino when it was being built by the Golden Lions because it was so amazing (sorry dont remember name), but now they are everywhere. Impossible to keep up.
Unless someone has some stats on this ?

Willing to bet this is at least in-part related to the falling level of aid dollars coming into the kingdom.

StroppyChops wrote: Willing to bet this is at least in-part related to the falling level of aid dollars coming into the kingdom.

It's been a while since HE told the World Bank and the EU and all the western NGOs where they can stick it. We are buddies with China first and that's been clear for some time.
However, there are worst things than casinos. Just wait until they find some oil.

Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2017 1:06 am

StroppyChops wrote: Willing to bet this is at least in-part related to the falling level of aid dollars coming into the kingdom.

It's been a while since HE told the World Bank and the EU and all the western NGOs where they can stick it. We are buddies with China first and that's been clear for some time.
However, there are worst things than casinos. Just wait until they find some oil.

Or diamonds.

More casinos means more Thai tourists.

Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 12, 2017 1:06 amIt's been a while since HE told the World Bank and the EU and all the western NGOs where they can stick it.

HE is a political genius.