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Shanghai, China, June 3, 2008: For the fifth consecutive year, IBHS (International Branded Hotels of Shanghai) members, sponsors and their guests hit the golf course in the name of charity for the annual IBHS Charity Golf Tournament which was held at the Shanghai West Course on Friday May 30th, 2008.

The IBHS is an organization that unites Shanghai’s best 4 and 5 star international hotels with a membership of 62 hotels and over 27,000 guest rooms in the city. The IBHS is a division of the Shanghai Hotel Industry Association and has been meeting on a regular basis since it began back in 1993 with just nine member hotels.

This year’s event raised and lived up to its reputation with many of Shanghai’s leading hotels vying to outdo each other by theming their sponsored hole and offering refreshments from satays and steinlagers to cocktails and pastries.
Each player also received a lucky dip offering spectacular accommodation and dining vouchers from many of the member hotels. In addition, players raised just over RMB174,000 from the raffle prizes which included trips to Kuala Lumpur, bottles of Champagne and a Sony Cybershot,

While no one managed to hit a hole in one and win a car , the winning team was the Hotel Equatorial team.

Chairman of the IBHS Mr William Hall, general manager of the Hotel Equatorial Shanghai commented “It is great to see the hotels come together for this worthy cause and we would like to thank our major sponsors: Swisseau, CWS Boco, Summergate Wines, ASC wines, Emporio Asia, Fidelio, Intertouch, Coca Cola, Air Union Insurance Brokers, Shanghai General Motors, China Economic Review, HBO, AXN/Sony, Shanghai Racquet Club, Zweisel, Grand Hotels Magazine, Lloyds Register and Mr Clean. It takes a great deal of effort to host a day like this and we would not be able to do it without their generous support.”

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Shanghai, China, April 14 2008: More than 30 karaoke singers from some of Shanghai’s leading 4 and 5 star hotels competed in the annual IBHS (International Branded Hotels of Shanghai) Karaoke competition held on April 8, in the Lyceum Theatre, Shanghai.

The IBHS is an organization that unites Shanghai’s best 4 and 5 star international hotels with a membership of 60 hotels and over 26,000 guest rooms in the city. The IBHS is a division of the Shanghai Hotel Industry Association and has been meeting on a regular basis since it began back in 1993 with just nine member hotels.
This is the third year that the IBHS has hosted the karaoke competition and the caliber of the contestants continues to grow each year.

From the 30 contestants who initially competed in the two semi-finals, the judges had a tough job of picking the ten finalists. This year’s finalists went all out with some even incorporating dancers into their performances.
However there can only ever be one winner and this year the winner was from Elton Lu from Pudong Shangri La; 2nd place went to John Yao from JW Mandarin Hotel and 3rd place went to Phil Chen from the JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai.
The atmosphere in the Lyceum Theatre was overwhelming with supporters from each of the contestants hotels there to cheer their fellow contestant on.