An MP has called for an extra bank holiday in 2015 to mark 800 years of the sealing of the Magna Carta.

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The Sands Cotai Central, a casino resort, is scheduled to open in 2012 with 300, 000 square feet of gaming space and 5, 800 rooms from Holiday Inn, Sheraton and Conrad, said Mabel Wu, senior press officer at Sands China.

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Decked out with swooping curves, racing horizontal bands, wraparound windows, needle-like towers and candy-coloured neon, the architecture was designed to remind visitors that they 0 200 400 600 800 1000 were on holiday.

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She helped hand out 1, 600 boxes containing food (including holiday turkeys) and hygiene products to 800 families, some of whom had waited in line up to six hours in 30-degree weather to receive the goods.

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The Stein Roe Young Investor Fund (800-403-5437) offers holiday gift certificates and kid-friendly investing literature.

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Another 800 tourists stuck in Bangkok had been hoping to go to the island for a holiday, before 50 flights were grounded this week.

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