{"id":29540,"date":"2022-05-04T07:29:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T10:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=29540"},"modified":"2026-04-23T09:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:02:35","slug":"singapore-pools-to-resume-lottery-draws-with-live-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/singapore-pools-to-resume-lottery-draws-with-live-audience","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Pools to resume lottery draws with live audience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Singapore Pools has announced it will resume lottery draws with live audiences from May 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Singapore.-\u00a0Singapore Pools\u00a0has announced that it will hold its first draw with a live audience in over two years at the Singapore Pools Building on May 5. Participants do not need to verify their vaccination status<\/strong>\u00a0or complete the SafeEntry check. However, they must wear masks indoors at all times, as required by existing safety management measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Singapore Turf Club has reopened to live spectators after two years of holding races behind closed doors due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Parts of the club were temporarily converted into Covid-19 recovery facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singapore has lifted most of its restrictions on vaccinated travellers<\/a>, and visitors can now enter without quarantine or testing on arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singapore Pools, which is the only operator legally allowed to run lotteries in Singapore, said: “All lottery draws are conducted according to strict security guidelines and procedures, in the presence of an independent public accounting firm from start to end.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singapore parliament passes new gambling legislation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Singapore parliament has approved the\u00a0Gambling Regulatory Authority of Singapore Bill<\/strong>\u00a0and the\u00a0Gambling Control Bill.<\/strong>\u00a0The former will create the\u00a0Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRA)<\/a>\u00a0as a single regulator for all forms of gambling. Singapore hopes the new regulator will be in place for mid-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second bill will make it a criminal offence for under-aged individuals to gamble<\/strong>, \u201cregardless whether with legal or unlawful operators\u201d and for under-aged individuals to enter gambling areas, \u201cexcept where entry checks are not required\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Singapore Pools has announced it will resume lottery draws with live audiences from May 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Singapore Pools has resumed live lottery draws, and the Singapore Turf Club has reopened to spectators, signaling a return to pre-pandemic operational norms. Concurrently, Singapore's parliament has passed legislation to establish the Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRA) as a unified regulator for all gambling forms and to criminalize underage gambling, reinforcing the nation's governance framework.","focusai_entities":"Singapore Pools, Singapore Turf Club, Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRA)","focusai_location":"Singapore","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GRA's Full Scope?","query":"What specific gaming verticals, beyond lotteries and racing, will fall under the Gambling Regulatory Authority's consolidated oversight, and what is the projected timeline for full operational implementation of the GRA?"},{"label":"Impact on GGR\/NGR?","query":"How are the resumption of live lottery draws and racing spectators, combined with the new regulatory framework, projected to impact Singapore's overall Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) for the current fiscal year?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[229],"class_list":["post-29540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29540","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29551,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29540\/revisions\/29551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}