How Chinese gamblers turned a Cambodian casino called NagaWorld into an international juggernaut.
Illustration by Andrea Ucini
It’s Thursday night at the casino complex NagaWorld, and no one is dancing to the Filipino cover band’s synth-heavy version of Madonna’s “Borderline.” Instead, patrons of the Darlin Darlin Bar, mostly young men, are playing dice games to expedite their imbibing as young waitresses in single-shoulder red gowns shuttle between the bartenders and the tables. At the rear of the bar, a wall of young women in miniskirts chat with each other or look at their phones, waiting for the men to inv
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