From the news, Johor residents has greatly affected by the casino inside the IRs. It is really convenient for them to get here and gamble everyday since there are "free" buses organized by private individuals and companies to bring them to the casino everyday.
The life of some Johor family are greatly affected since about 30% of the gamblers are mainly housewives and some of them spend the whole day inside the casino and even take loans to gamble. However I think its their own responsibility to control themselves than blaming Singapore is at fault. There is casinos in Malaysia since before, so I believe the Malaysian Government do need to educate their people in gambling and control themselves. Similar cases happened in other countries all around the world and its all the countries' own responsible to educate their people and they did a good job.
Also, the Singapore Government can only "pressure" the casinos to limited the customers from Malaysia but not regulate them as it is not in the part of the deal and it will touch on politics. It takes the Malaysian Government to issue a official request to the casinos to limit its people to visit the casinos in Singapore. So before that, we can do nothing.
- by Yang Xin YU
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