{"id":32858,"date":"2021-06-07T09:47:25","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/07\/plans-to-build-papua-new-guinea-png-first-casino-trigger-fears-over-social-problems"},"modified":"2021-06-07T09:47:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T00:47:25","slug":"plans-to-build-papua-new-guineas-first-casino-trigger-fears-over-social-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32858","title":{"rendered":"Plans to build Papua New Guinea\u2019s first casino trigger fears over social problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say PNG does not have adequate governance or welfare systems to deal with problems casino may bring<\/p>\n<p>Plans to build Papua New Guinea\u2019s first casino in Port Moresby have sparked criticism from transparency advocates and experts who say the country\u2019s industry regulator has undermined its independence with the deal and fear it could worsen social problems.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement to build the US$43m<strong> <\/strong>venue was signed on 28 May by Paga Hill Development Corporation and the National Gaming Control Board (NGCB), drawing immediate condemnation from Transparency International.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/07\/plans-to-build-papua-new-guinea-png-first-casino-trigger-fears-over-social-problems\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say PNG does not have adequate governance or welfare systems to deal with problems casino may bringPlans to build Papua New Guinea\u2019s first casino in Port Moresby have sparked criticism from transparency advocates and experts who say the country&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1887,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1887"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32859,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32858\/revisions\/32859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}