Lottery

One ticket holder wins record US$590m Powerball lottery jackpot

19 May 2013

US media quoted lottery officials as putting the winning purse at US$590.5 million. Powerball did not name the winner but said further details would be released.

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China Digest, February 18, 2013

18 Feb 2013

Sales of consumer goods totalled 1.7 billion yuan (HK$2.09 billion) for the week-long Lunar New Year holiday in Lanzhou, a 21 per cent increase from the holiday last year, Xinhua reports, citing...

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Joy for thousands of Spain's El Nino US$1.1b lottery winners

8 Jan 2013

Thousands of winners of Spain's US$1.1 billion El Nino lottery broke open champagne and wept for joy, savouring their luck at a time when the country faces its most severe economic crisis in...

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Italy's gambling addiction set to worsen

7 Jan 2013

Italy is to press on with plans to open 1,000 new gambling arcades despite mounting national anguish over the spread of pathological gambling in what until recently was a nation of frugal savers....

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Talking points

22 Dec 2012

Spaniards dream of 'El Gordo' miracle

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Two win more than US$250m each in American Powerball

30 Nov 2012

Two people have won more than US$250 million each, each beating odds of one in 175 million to share the second largest jackpot in US history.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

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Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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Bangkok divided over plans for lottery machines

Siripong Khwanthong sidles up to a lottery seller along a crowded street near Bangkok's Patpong pleasure district, studies the selection and settles on a ticket ending in 37.

"The number...

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Who said it?

I've got like 200 tickets laying around my house. I never check my tickets

U.S. grandma Julie Cervera, who won US$23 million without realising it for five months

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Former Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo arrested over graft

A "distraught" ex-Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was arrested at hospital after being charged over a third case of alleged corruption during her time in power.

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NORWAY

Norwegian family makes it three children, three lottery wins

A Norwegian family has now won the lottery an astonishing three times, winning a total of over €3million (HK$30.1 million) and with each win coinciding with the birth of a new family member.

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MARK SIX

Bumper jackpot shared as Mark Six lottery fever grips Hong Kong

It could have been the biggest win ever on Mark Six for one lucky punter last night, but instead 2.5 tickets won the first prize of HK$49,591,870.

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GB prove finding sporting success needn't be a lottery

I, too, have contributed to the future of British sport. Having picked up a couple of bars of chocolate at Tesco, I lined up at the counter where I spotted a sign which said the jackpot for the...

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