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		<title>African and Oceanic Art Auction Raises $10,859,944</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sotheby&#8217;sauction of African and Oceanic Art from the Collection of Frieda and Milton Rosenthal surpassed pre-sale estimates, bringing $10,859,944 (est. $6,849,500/ 10,808,000). This offering represents the most important collection of African and Oceanic Art to be offered in forty years in New York and is the highest total for a single-owner sale of African and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asianauction.info/2008/11/18/african-and-oceanic-art-auction-raises-10859944/</link>
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		<title>Mallet Japan Modern and Contemporary Auction Dec 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mallet Japan will be offering 2 paintings by Georges Rouault, one depicting a face of clown and the other capturing a profile of French poet, Paul Verlaine, each with an estimate of 7,000,000-10,000,000 JPY.
lot# 342 Clown (oil on carton laid down on cradled panel, painted circa 1945, signed by Isabelle Rouault on the reverse, 27 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asianauction.info/2008/11/17/mallet-japan-modern-and-contemporary-auction-dec-5/</link>
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		<title>Hong Kong Auction of Modern and Contemporary Asian Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ravenel Art Group is pleased to announce it’s first Hong Kong auction of Contemporary and Modern Asian Art on Monday December 1, 2008.
Ravenel Art, the leading art auction house in Taipei, will offer key works by leading artists in a number of categories in its Hong Kong Auction. In Modern Chinese Art which includes works [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asianauction.info/2008/11/13/hong-kong-auction-of-modern-and-contemporary-asian-art/</link>
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		<title>Hong Kong Auction for Lunar New Year Fair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department will hold auctions of stalls for the coming Lunar New Year fairs in Victoria Park and Kowloon would start on Wednesday November 12.
    For the Victoria Park Fair, there will be 180 wet goods stalls, 284 dry goods stalls, eight thematic stalls and three fast food [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asianauction.info/2008/11/10/hong-kong-auction-for-lunar-new-year-fair/</link>
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		<title>10th Annual World Alba White Truffle Auction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year the auction is being held at The Ritz-Carlton Tokyo.
Mark Lettenbichler, Area General Manager of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, said the auction which will feature five smaller white truffles as well as the &#8216;Queen Tartufo&#8217; star fungus.
Last year, the highest bid at the Alba Truffle Auction was 208,000 US dollars for a 750 gram [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asianauction.info/2008/11/09/10th-annual-world-alba-white-truffle-auction/</link>
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		<title>Acker Merrall &#38; Condit Hong Kong Wine Auction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A wine auction in Hong Kong, has raised more than 64 million Hong Kong dollars, breaking an Asian record for wine auctions and beating a presale estimate of 50 million Hong Kong dollars.
The highlight of the sale, a case of 1990 Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, went for 1.89 million Hong Kong dollars.
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		<link>http://www.asianauction.info/2008/11/04/acker-merrall-condit-hong-kong-wine-auction/</link>
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		<title>Hong Kong Car Number Plate Auction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Car registration number 1234 fetched 360,000 Hong Kong dollars at Sunday&#8217;s government auction where a total of 280 unusual plates raised just short of 345,000 US dollars.
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		<link>http://www.asianauction.info/2008/11/03/hong-kong-car-number-plate-auction/</link>
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		<title>Indian Contemporary Modern Art Auction Nov 3-8</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd. has announced its auction of Indian Contemporary and Modern Art on the 8th of November 2008 at 6.30 pm at Emami Towers, 687 Anandapur, E.M. Bypass, Kolkata 700107.
The auction of Indian Contemporary and Modern Art consists of diverse works from various artists across the country, therefore proving to be a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asianauction.info/2008/10/27/indian-contemporary-modern-art-auction-nov-3-8/</link>
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		<title>Auction Tea Prices Fall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[African tea prices fell 2.7 percent at auction in Mombasa, Kenya. The average price dropped to $2.20 a kilogram at the Oct. 21-22 auction, from $2.28 a week earlier.
Sri Lanka tea auctions also had a serious slump last week with low grown tea sales dropping by over 50 %.
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		<link>http://www.asianauction.info/2008/10/27/auction-tea-prices-fall/</link>
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		<title>Myanmar Gem Stone Auction Takes $175 million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent Myanmar government sale of gemstones fetched about $175 million during a two week auction, which ended on October 16.
Jade, gemstones and pearls were auctioned.
The take was up about 46 percent from the country&#8217;s auctions held in June and March, and up 17 percent from fourth-quarter auction in 2007.
More than 2,000 gem merchants attended [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asianauction.info/2008/10/18/myanmar-gem-stone-auction-takes-175-million/</link>
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