Independent voices from the TWT Communities
Soccer betting is illegal in Cambodia, but visitors to this seedy frontier town wouldn't know it.
"We can't always pronounce the teams we are betting on, but that doesn't matter," said Sampoath Pererra, a Sri Lankan palm oil worker who has made his life in Poipet, a two-street town sandwiched between the Cambodian and Thai borders. "The important thing is we can recognize them."
