New law on online gambling needs to be formulated - Zahidi

A new law on online gambling needs to be formulated to enable the activity to be monitored and curbed more effectively, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.

Deputy Communications and Multimedia Minister Zahidi Zainul Abidin said the absence of such a law at the moment had made it difficult for monitoring to be carried out as the internet domains and protocol of websites used for the activity could be changed repeatedly...