Minister Tan Chuan-Jin said in Parliament yesterday that banning online gambling will simply force users to go underground.
Last month, the G announced its decision to approve the applications of two operators, exempting them from the Remote Gambling Act. This would allow them to offer online betting to users. The Act, which was passed in Parliament in October 2014, was put in place to ban online gambling. It came into effect in February last year.
Read more here: http://themiddleground.sg/2016/10/10...eguards-place/“The reality is that there are Singaporeans who are online gambling and they are gambling in a space where there are no social safeguards and no monitoring,” said Mr Tan.