Lottery online is one of the most popular forms of gambling in Laos and Thailand. This woman sells tickets at the edge of the city of Vientiane in central Laos. As you can see her customers are mostly locals. She is not a private capitalist but rather an agent of a state-run organization. She is marginalized but passively accepts her role in the market.

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An Oregon man who immigrated to the United States from Laos has won hundreds of millions of dollars in a lottery drawing, and plans to give some of it away. Forty-six-year-old Cheng Saephan spoke at a news conference Monday to announce that he and his wife would take half of the prize money, and give the rest to a friend. The winner is part of the Iu Mien ethnic group that helped American forces during the Vietnam war, and later emigrated to the United States.

The government of Laos has sent a directive to the Ministry of Finance, which oversees the country’s legal state lottery, asking it to reduce the number of drawings and manage winnings in a more transparent manner, sources told RFA’s Lao Service. The directive also requires that informal football lotteries and lottery chances bought by short messaging services be closed down.