China Jails Workers From Crown Resorts of Australia in Message to Casinos<br />Although gambling is illegal in mainland China, many Chinese flock to Macau — a special administrative region under Beijing’s rule<br />but governed by separate laws — as well as places like Australia, Singapore and the Philippines to try their luck.<br />“The uncertainty was stifling for a lot of casino operators because they didn’t exactly know how this was going to pan out<br />and what the exact objections were because not much was made public,” said Sudhir Kalé, the founder of GamePlan Consultants, a gambling consultancy based in Australia that has advised Crown in the past.<br />“Most operators will also learn that, every now and then, the government does become very serious about implementing the laws in the strictest sense of the word,<br />and therefore they will be a lot more subtle in terms of promoting their properties to the mainland Chinese market,” he said
