Inside Asian Gaming

OCTOBER 2018 INSIDE ASIAN GAMING 39 “The government wants to have this bill as soon as possible to ensure that the industry will be developed in the proper manner and also of course to meet the government target for tourist attractions.” – H.E. Mey Vann IN FOCUS S ET in the heart of the Indochina peninsula, the Kingdom of Cambodia has everything it could need to become the region’s next key tourism and leisure destination. But when it comes to gaming, one element has been missing from this equation – a long-touted legal framework to lay the foundations for the industry’s future development. On 7 September 2018, Cambodia’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MOEF) and the Ministry of Interior, in conjunction with Malaysian gaming machine supplier RGB International Bhd and Inside Asian Gaming , hosted the inaugural Cambodia International Gaming Conference (CIGC) at the Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra, where the main topic of discussion was the Law on the Management of Integrated Resorts and Commercial Gambling (LMCG). The LMCG is still some time away from becoming a reality, with Director General of the General Department of Financial Industry for the MOEF, H.E. Mey Vann, telling IAG he is “hopeful” of passing the bill into law by 2019. “But it depends on how the parliament members agree,” he