Britain's training camp ahead of next year's Olympic Games in Beijing will be based in Macau, the British Olympic Association (BOA) announced Wednesday.The former Portuguese territory, which borders China, had sports facilities built for the 2005 East Asian Games. Its relative proximity to Beijing means it enjoys a similar climate and is in the same time

Shares of Melco PBL Entertainment Ltd. slipped Friday after an agent that planned to steer more business to the casino operator was unable to raise cash to expand its business.A-Max runs a company that packages deals on travel fare and hotel rooms into "junkets," or paid trips that businesses offer clients. The company has an

Macau billionaire Stanley Ho paid a record $330,000 for a white truffle at a charity auction, beating competing bids from the U.K. artist Damien Hirst and Sheik Mansoor Bin Zayed al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, the organizers said. [youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=AiP07urPAlY[/youtube] The 1.5 kilogram (3.3 pounds) tuber magnatum pico was found on Nov. 23 near Pisa by Cristiano and

After just celebrating his 88th birthday, it seems that Stanley Ho once again tries to push his long awaited Hong Kong listing. His biggest stumbling block will be his disgruntled and estranged sister Winnie Ho, who has managed so far to stop Stanley Ho from listing his casino empire. Unless he resolves his long

Unemployment rate for August-October 2007 was 3.0%, down by 0.1 percentage point over the previous period (July-September 2007) or 0.6 percentage point year-on-year. The underemployment rate went up by 0.1 and 0.3 percentage point over the previous period and the same period of 2006 respectively to 1.2%. Total labour force was estimated at 318,400, with a