Vietnam moves toward casinos for all

To encourage investment and keep gambling spending at home, Vietnam opens the door to casinos for its citizens. Gaming industry experts say allowing the local population to play is the key to building casino resorts that have the size and scope to attract international visitors.

Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a blogger for Forbes, editor at large for Inside Asian Gaming and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.