06/25/21 Australia: Victoria eases Covid-19 restrictions Casinos will now be limited to 300 people per indoor space under new Covid-19 rules.
06/25/21 Former Crown employee wants to be called as witness Jenny Jiang, who was detained in China in 2016 along with 18 other employees for breaking Chinese gambling laws, wants to be called to give more details about Crown Resorts’ operations in China.
06/24/21 Australia: pubs in Melbourne demand payout due to Covid-19 impact A group of nine pubs has petitioned for insurers to pay out due to closures and the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
06/24/21 Australia: ACMA to develop gambling self-exclusion register The Australian authority ACMA will develop a National Self-Exclusion Register to let people self-exclude from all licensed interactive gaming providers in a single process.
06/23/21 Star Entertainment and Crown Resorts discuss potential merger Star Entertainment and Crown Resorts’ CEOs met virtually to discuss options regarding a possible merger.
06/23/21 CCC to cut staff due to Imperial Pacific’s closure The Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC) is in an economic crisis due to Imperial Pacific International’s non-payment of its licence, and itplans to lay off 22 workers.
06/23/21 Cambodian government to intercede in NagaCorp conflict with unions A meeting between NagaCorp’s management and laid-off workers will be attended by the country’s Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training.
06/22/21 Reef Casino expects to announce profits of AU$3m Reef Casino Trust has announced its distributable profit for the first six months of the year will be approximately AU$3m.
06/21/21 AUSTRAC to join forces with local banks over casino investigations AUSTRAC will partner with Australian banks to continue investigating all three casino operators due to potential financial crimes.
06/16/21 NagaCorp completes issue of US$200m in senior notes NagaCorp has announced that its additional US$200m issue of 7.95 per cent senior notes has completed.
06/16/21 Imperial Pacific requests review into gaming licence suspension IPI says that it should be exempt from paying its licence fee to the Commonwealth Casino Commission for the last year.
06/15/21 Australia: NSW launches gambling harms programme The NSW government has launched a campaign dubbed “The Number that Changed My Life” to help people dealing with gambling addiction issues.
06/15/21 Oaktree makes new offer for James Packer’s Crown shares Oaktree has increased its original bid with an AU$3.1bn (US$2.39bn) offer to acquire James Packer’s 37 per cent stake in Crown Resorts.
06/14/21 War of words over legal advice for former IPI chairwoman Cui Li Jie’s former lawyer, Juan T. Lizama, has said that John Mo Shi Jian, a former Macau law professor, was giving the former IPI chairwoman bad advice.
06/12/21 SkyCity expects strong performance for FY21 SkyCity expects a normalised EBITDA of between $247-253m for the financial year ending June 30 thanks to a rise in domestic tourism.
