The Bacchanalia Gala Dinner and Auction, the highlight of this week’s Vancouver’s international wine festival, raised $447,000 in support of the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company.

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The opening day of the 5th Annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Event saw record attendance figures as more than 80 special interest automobiles were sold, at No Reserve, in front of a packed house, broadcast on television among an audience of avid enthusiasts.
SPEED broadcast for more than three hours on the auction block as Craig Jackson, [...]

oledo police will hold its first abandoned and forfeited vehicle auction tomorrow with about 110 cars, trucks, boats, and motorcycles up for bid.
The auction will begin at 11 a.m. at the police impound lot, 198 Dura Ave., in North Toledo. Bidders must register at the auctioneer’s trailer. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. There is [...]

A West Kowloon site has been triggered for sale under the application list, and will be put up for auction on May 8 with an opening bid of $2.605 billion.
The site, at the junction of Hoi Wang Road, Yan Cheung Road and Yan Yau Cheung Road, will be offered for sale at the Hong Kong [...]

This weekend, Strawser Auctions of Wolcottville, Ind., returns to Pennsylvania for its semiannual Eastern Seaboard sale of majolica – tin-glazed earthenware that lends itself to fanciful shapes – as evidenced by the nearly 1,000 lots to be offered today and tomorrow at Alderfer Auction Center in Hatfield.
A George Jones monkey-shaped marmalade tray is expected to [...]

Nigeria has reached the end of a huge debt elimination programme under the administration of its president, Olusegun Obasanjo, though an auction has not settled all the country’s remaining legacy debt.
Of roughly 1.76m oil warrants auctioned, about 21 per cent, were bought back at the government’s indicated minimum price of $220, at a total cost [...]

A spectacular golden wreath dating back to the 4th Century BC is due to go on display at the National Archaeology Museum in Greece.
The Macedonian wreath was returned to Athens at the weekend by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
Greece fought for 10 years to prove that it had been illegally spirited out of the [...]

The average weighted price for Bank of Russia Bond (OBR) series 04001-7 (maturing on October 18, 2007 and with a built-in put option) offered at auction Thursday was 97.5875% of face value, which corresponds to yield of an annual 5.28%.
The Central Bank reported that 123.484 billion rubles (face value) worth of the bonds were sold [...]

The auction of the Trade Centre II plot will take place during the International Property Show 2007, which is scheduled to run from April 3-5.
The land being auctioned covers an area of 14,731 sq. ft. and has been designated for commercial and residential development. Humaid Al Shamsi, Head of Auctions at Dubai Land Department, [...]

Hungary’s Government Debt Management Agency (ÁKK) is set to hold an auction of HUF 75 billion of 2010 local debt. Despite still overweight positions in local debt Dresdner Kleinwort expects to see relatively strong demand provided there is no more serious deterioration of risk appetite.
“The foreign holdings of local debt show that there has [...]