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Gambling has come to the rescue of China's cultural patrimony. A Macau casino tycoon purchased a bronze horse head that was looted from Beijing's former Summer Palace in the 19th century and has donated it to China. Sotheby's Hong Kong announced Thursday that Stanley Ho paid $8.84 million for the piece, a record for Qing dynasty sculpture...
...horse will be displayed October 4-8 in Hong Kong as part of Sotheby's auction preview. Then it moves to Ho's Hotel Grand Lisboa in Macau. Its final destination hasn't been announced, though there is speculation it will end up in the Poly Museum with the other heads. "If the statue of the horse, the monkey, the ox, the tiger and the pig join together again after being scattered for 147 years, it will be an exciting feat," Niu said. "We are full of expectation...
...diplomatic benefits. After several years of fruitless talks, this seemed like a major diplomatic victory for the Bush Administration and its partners - Japan, South Korea, Russia and China. But Kim delayed moving on Yongbyon until the North got back more than $20 million that had been frozen in a Macau bank account - funds the U.S. believes were tied to the North's various illicit businesses, like narcotics and arms sales. Only after making sure every penny was returned did the North abide by its agreement to shutter Yongbyon, months later...
...MACAU Venetian Macao, world's biggest casino, opens...
...past - are hardly the stuff of dazzling scholarly insight. But his encyclopedic survey of the forces and events that have connected individuals, societies and cultures is nimbly paced and punctuated by lively anecdotes - of catamarans plying Polynesian seas, of Catholic converts in Mexico bearing icons made in Macau of missionaries martyred in Japan, and of the armless boy in an Indian trade delegation who awed imperial Rome by shooting arrows with his toes...