New referendum for casino on Taiwan’s Penghu Island coming soon, reports say

Taiwan’s next attraction—a casino—is possibly coming soon.

A local group that called itself the Alliance Promoting Internationalization of Penghu is reportedly near its goal of gathering enough signatures to trigger a local referendum on whether Penghu, one of Taiwan’s outlying islands, should allow casino gaming in its territory.

The alliance told Taiwan’s Chinese-language media that a referendum can be held in June, as long as it is able to get the required number of signatures next month, according to GGRAsia.

All groups that want to lobby for casinos to be legalized in the country’s outlying islands must collect 4,113 signatures, or about 5 percent of the more than 80,000 eligible voters in the island. Only then can their petitions will be sent to the election committee, which, in turn, will prepare for a referendum.