Local play changes game at Vietnam’s Ho TramMuhammad Cohen

Allowing qualified Vietnamese gamblers to play at The Grand Ho Tram could jump the resort and Vietnam into the top rank of Asia gaming destinations.

Local players on the casino floor should energize the beachfront resort two hours from commercial capital Ho Chi Minh City with a world class golf course that convenient to a new international airport opening this year, splashing Ho Tram onto the regional map.

Former US diplomat and broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is Asia editor at large for Clarion Media, a longtime contributor to Forbes, columnist for Asia Times and author of Hong Kong n Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about TV news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his biography, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, ex-Twitter @MuhammadCohen and now on Blue Sky @MuhammadCohen.bsky.social.