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...This is not the first time the club has been smeared. In 1996, jockey Stanley Chin was arrested for bribing other riders to throw a race at Hong Kong's Sha Tin track. Chin, who was paid by a businessman from mainland China to rig the order of finish so punters could cash in on a long-shot combination bet, was sentenced to three years in prison. No charges have been filed as yet in Operation Green. The Jockey Club had no official comment, but chief executive Larry Wong acknowledges the investigation "is an emotional setback...
...More than that, it's another blow to an august institution. Races at the club's Happy Valley and Sha Tin tracks are an obsession to hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong punters, who gather in the bleachers, at off-track betting outlets and in front of TVs in countless noodle shops whenever the ponies are at the post. The club's takings ($1.4 billion last year) make it Hong Kong's largest taxpayer as well as the SAR's most dependable charitable donor. Gambling money has built playgrounds, cultural centers and other civic improvements around the city...
...fierce. KDDI's au and Tu-ka services, with 17.7% and 5.7% of the market respectively, offer popular student-discount plans and a phone with a global positioning satellite function. J-Phone, owned by Britain's Vodafone, has forged the deepest inroads by offering a camera-equipped phone called Sha-Mail. Sha-Mail's popularity has increased J-Phone's market share...
What we would do, baby, without you? Sha...
...that a member of the banned China Democracy Party, Shan Chengfeng, wrote an open letter in December asking the IOC to press for the release of her activist husband and "every political prisoner," or that she is serving two years in a labor camp for her missive. Still, dissident Sha Yuguang, who has pressed for democratic reform for two decades, is typical in hoping that a Beijing Games will "bring China closer to the world, which helps promote political reform...