SGR ASX: Star attempts to grow revenues after $300m loss in horror six months Star had previously inked a deal to sell its Brisbane assets to its Hong Kong joint venture (JV) partners. He said the deal being in doubt meant the casino operator, again, could faced the prospect of bankruptcy. In a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange, Far East Consortium said Star must repay $10 million to the parties within 30 days of the termination, and failing that, it must transfer its third stake in the Gold Coast hotel project. The group's joint venture partners have threatened to walk away from the agreement struck to sell its stake in the Queen's Wharf casino and hotel complex. The report concedes that some improvements have been made since 2022, including a greater level of transparency and cooperation. However, the NICC said the report underscores concerns that it was not receiving all the facts from The Star at a time when it needed certainty the company could fund and prioritise an urgent business turnaround. The casino group had already requested a trading halt on Friday after Adam Bell SC’s latest damning report covering its operations was published on the same day by the NSW Independent Casino Commission (NICC). The Sydney-based exchange issued the announcement on Monday morning after Star failed to publish its annual financial report by last Friday’s (31 August) due date. Oxfam's latest inequality report has found the world's top 10 richest people (all men) made a whopping $150 million a day last year. It found that half of those using account-based pensions draw their super down at the legislated minimum rate. The ABC's resident economics guru Alan Kohler has hammered out this piece, the first of what will be a weekly column on Mondays this year, on the entrenched US exceptionalism and its extraordinary productivity gains in recent times. Both groups used a model banned by almost every jurisdiction in the world, apart from Macau.