Acknowledgements

manuscript, I would like to thank S. Ha, C. Mak, C. L. Yeung and J. Moy for meeting very tight deadlines and managing the project. All of them have volunteered to participate in this project as a contribution to our society.

I cannot forget to acknowledge the various overseas governments which have posted their detailed reports on gambling on the web, and many of them have kindly given us approval to reproduce or quote their work in this book. In particular, we are grateful to the enthusiastic and prompt response from the UK authorities to approve our reproduction of the Report to the Home Secretary on Internet Gambling, prepared by the Gaming Board for Great Britain.

Finally, but most importantly, enormous thanks to Sir James Hodge, the British Consul General for Hong Kong, for his spontaneous response and unreserved support of my project and the rationale behind this book. UK is a very open society and the British Government has achieved much success in formulating a policy for gambling over the Internet. Sir James has written a very enlightening Foreword for this book under the title of Continued Debate for Gambling is Welcome, but should be Informed. This is the message I want to echo, and empower the reader, with.

Paul Kan
paulkan@intelligentpolicy.com
June 2002