Good Morning Vietnam!

It's a strange old world. Since March 3rd 2011 gambling has been banned in Vietnam. The government decided to crack down in a bid to tackle the nation's love affair with the internet, in particular the growing number of children engrossed in late-night online gaming activity.

Deputy Minister Le Nam Thang commented, "Provincial departments of information and communication will inspect online games activities nationwide and deal with organizations that violate regulations by canceling their services."

These drastic measures affect all ages and mean that online gamblers are now unable to wager or play between the hours of 10pm to 8am. Those eager to gamble online in Vietnam will have to wait till morning to place their bets or will need to make sure they get their share of the action before the watershed at 10pm.

Vietnamese Developed Games Portal

t's an odd move in many ways, but especially when considering that a government owned company, VDCNET2E has been working in partnership with Casino Development since December 2010 to develop an online card game portal.

Casino Development is an online games software provider and is in the process of sharing their expertise with VDCNET2E to develop a browser based card game portal. Programmers from both companies are working together to develop this brand new online gaming portal.

It's Just the Start...

The online gaming and gambling market is growing fast in Vietnam. With a population of more than 89 million the potential to develop new products suited to the local market is vast.

It's anticipated that the new games portal will attract more than 10 million users and once launched it will be expanded with a growing variety of online games.

However exciting the games are, poor Vietnamese players will have to cram in all their online gaming fun between 8am and 10pm to comply with the government ban!