Gambling

I wonder if gambling is legal in Cambodia?

The 2005 edition of "Culture Shock! Cambodia" says it isn't.  It says that the reason there are many casinos near the Cambodia-Thai border is because gambling is illegal in Thailand but not Cambodia.  So the Thais who want to gamble cross the border into Cambodia, and hence poor some of their money into this country.

Last Friday's edition of the "Phnom Penh Post" however, says something to the contrary.  It mentions gambling as a past-time associated with the kick-boxing sport and other sporting past-times favoured by the Cambodians.  It says that Prime Minister Hun Sen has outlawed gambling, but it continues.

Perhaps gambling was legal in the past, but no longer legal now.  Perhaps certain types of gambling is illegal but not others.  I wonder what the real scoop is.