Tycoons
Nov 10 2008, Naveen

Back in 2006, a Hong Kong property tycoon dropped $160K on a white truffle and in 2007, Macau casino mogul and billionaire Stanley Ho bought a giant white truffle weighing 1.5 kilograms for a whopping $330,000. But this year, the super-rich avoided...

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