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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/man-in-330000-dollar-truffle-bid.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Billionaire Stanley Ho bid 330,000 dollars for two truffles, including one weighing nearly a kilogram (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-man-in-330000-dollar-truffle-bid.jpg" alt="Billionaire Stanley Ho bid 330,000 dollars for two truffles, including one weighing nearly a kilogram (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>A Macau casino mogul bid 330,000 dollars (£211,660) for a pair of white truffles, including one weighing nearly a kilogram, matching the record price he paid at the same event three years ago for one of the giant tubers.</p>
<p>Billionaire Stanley Ho made the winning bid at a charity auction through representatives of his company, Sociedade de Jogos de Macau.</p>
<p>The pair included a huge truffle dug up in the central Tuscany region weighing 900 grams (about two pounds) as well as one found in Molise weighing in at 400 grams (about 14 ounces).</p>
<p>The auction was staged at Ho&#8217;s Grand Lisboa hotel in the former Portuguese colony of Macau, with bidders participating simultaneously in Rome and London through satellite link.</p>
<p>In 2007, Ho paid 330,000 dollars (£211,660) for a white truffle unearthed in Tuscany weighing 1.497 kilograms (about 3.3 pounds).</p>
<p>Ho is best known for his casino monopoly in Macau, a gambling enclave in southern China near Hong Kong.</p>
<p>Sixteen lots of white truffles from different areas in Italy went on the block, raising a total of 373,500 dollars (£239,561) for various charities in Macau, Britain and Italy.</p>
<p>White truffles are the most expensive and highly prized of Italy&#8217;s truffles, and among the most famous are those from Alba in the northern Piedmont region, where pigs or dogs are used to sniff them out during the September-December hunting season.</p>
<p>During the autumn truffle season in Italy, restaurants offer pasta and other dishes containing the edible fungus at sky-high prices.</p>
<p>Slivers of the delicacy, with its strong aroma, are prized to flavour pasta sauces and rice dishes.</p>
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