Tik Kanitsarin -- a well-known TV personality and participant of Big Brother in 2006 -- started online gambling, a habit that left her with huge debts. Moreover, the Thailand Youth Institute also revealed that due to the coronavirus pandemic, the number of online gambling websites has increased from 240 in January to over 580 in June. Additionally, in casinos, there is table limit for placing bets but no such limits exist in online gambling, according to Thanakorn Komkris of the Stop Gambling Foundation (SGF). A study revealed that this strategy is quite effective as 15% of people who see such advertisements end up on gambling websites," said Thanakorn. The number of online gambling websites more than doubled in June.

Source: Bangkok Post October 09, 2020 04:30 UTC