The Armenian Sarkies brothers, who built the Strand and Raffles, went bankrupt in the rubber slump of the early 1930s.
Live music, food and raffles are on offer, as well as the opportunity to play seminal college drinking games like beer pong and flip cup.
In 1953 she and Raffles rented and later bought a once-graceful but now dilapidated theatre in Stratford, not on Avon but in rundown east London.
The prince's Kingdom Holding Company, whose shares are traded on the Saudi stock exchange, owns stakes in hotel groups including Four Seasons and Fairmont Raffles and is a part-owner of the Savoy Hotel in London.
This year, more than 40 Fidelity representatives went to the meeting, fanning out and entering raffles held all over the auditorium.
Her clients and co-workers rallied to help, holding raffles and making contributions.
Doc Cheng's units are in Raffles hotels in Bangkok and Hamburg, while Jaan's have opened in Raffles in London, Beverly Hills and Montreux, Switzerland.
It includes lotteries, racetrack betting, raffles and prizes (like a trip or a car).
Unlike the cheap pubs that draw only men, the comedy acts, raffles and bands at the new nightspots attract both men and women.
Thrift clubs take subscriptions from members each week, top up the total savings with proceeds from events, raffles and football cards, and pay the money back to members just before Christmas.
As well as developing online films, in which the viewer unravels the story by navigating around mock-websites, DA2 has worked with Blast Theory, a company branded "theatre renegades" in 1998 for holding raffles and kidnapping the winners.
It happens that Christopher Forbes, vice chairman of our parent company, sat as a director (and shareholder) of Raffles, though he was not part of the negotiations--and he did not figure in our conceptualizing or producing this story.
And Singapore's Raffles group has pushed ahead with refurbishment projects on major properties in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap.
Derek Manford, the chairman, is himself a reformed male chauvinist: he opposed the equal-rights motion nine years ago (to his wife's displeasure), but says that the women have proved their worth by organising raffles, bingo and barbecues.
After the war, bursting with ideas and with a new husband, Gerry Raffles, nine years her junior, whom she had met when he was a teenager, Miss Littlewood once again set out to show ordinary people the magic of theatre.
Sainsbury (a British-based supermarket group), Harrods (a London shop), Fairmont Raffles (a hotel chain) and chunks of banks such as Credit Suisse, Barclays and Santander.
Sir Bruce also said cosmetic surgery deals, such as buy-one-get-one-free offers and handing out free breast surgery as prizes in raffles, were a "particularly distasteful" way of incentivising people to go under the knife.
There will also be new hotels from Raffles, Conrad, Hilton, Sheraton, Swissotel and St Regis.
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Named after Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore, Raffles started out as a 10-room bungalow and grew to become the landmark of the city-state, known throughout the world for attracting tycoons, rouges, adventurers and movie stars.
In the fall, residents held raffles to pay for a new state-ordered science laboratory and approved a property-tax increase that had failed twice before.
So are two Cambodian investments by Raffles's present owners: Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh and Grand Hotel Angkor in Siem Reap, a splendid colonial relic which will have a new life as a luxury hotel for visitors to the sublime temples of Angkor Wat.
One example: The Raffles hotel chain has created two restaurant brands, Doc Cheng's and Jaan's, based on the Singapore-based originals and their fusion of Western and Asian cuisine.
Old colonial relics such as Raffles Hotel or schools such as St Joseph's Institution (now the Art Museum) were restored and prettified.
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