{"id":13814,"date":"2021-01-27T07:30:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T07:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=13814"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:20:31","slug":"imperial-pacific-will-not-meet-deadline-for-new-casino-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/imperial-pacific-will-not-meet-deadline-for-new-casino-resort","title":{"rendered":"Imperial Pacific will not meet deadline for new casino resort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Imperial Pacific&#8217;s resort in Garapan will not complete on time, the Commonwealth Casino Commission has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Northern Mariana Islands.- <strong>Imperial Pacific International<\/strong> will not meet the deadline to finish its new rcasino esort in Garapan by February 28, according to the <strong>Commonwealth Casino Commission<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commission described a presentation on the company&#8217;s progress given by <strong>IPI chief engineer Eric Poon<\/strong> as &#8220;alarming&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The director of the Commission, Andrew Yeom said it was \u201cquite alarming and very concerning\u201d that the construction milestones schedule had been changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the casino licence agreement sets a timeline for IPI to finish the project,  Yeom said any change to the schedule would be a serious breach of contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told Poon: \u201cYou only have about a month to go. So please do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added: \u201cIf there are no amendments [to the CLA], that is obviously going to be a serious breach of contract.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imperial Pacific&#8217;s resort in Garapan will not complete on time, the Commonwealth Casino Commission has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Imperial Pacific International (IPI) has failed to meet the stipulated construction deadline for its Garapan integrated resort, a development the Commonwealth Casino Commission (CCC) has characterized as \"alarming.\" This operational delay constitutes a serious breach of IPI's casino licence agreement, portending significant regulatory and financial implications for the licensee.","focusai_entities":"Imperial Pacific International, Commonwealth Casino Commission, Eric Poon, Andrew Yeom","focusai_location":"Northern Mariana Islands, Garapan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Enforcement Actions?","query":"What specific enforcement actions, including potential licence suspension or revocation, are stipulated within the Commonwealth Casino Commission's regulatory framework for this breach?"},{"label":"Capital Markets Impact?","query":"How will this significant project delay and contractual breach impact Imperial Pacific International's capital markets standing and its ability to attract future investment or debt financing?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,16336,28,158],"tags":[23911,14213,23907],"class_list":["post-13814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australasia-news","category-casino-news","category-slider-home","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-imperial-pacific","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13820,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13814\/revisions\/13820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}