Did
you know...? |
Li
Ka-shing
high school drop out ... Asia's most generous individual,
has given out $1.56 billion to education and medical
research ... world's
largest operator of container terminals, world's largest
health and beauty retailer
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Kwok
Thomas & Raymond & family
deeply religious brothers, opened replica of Noah's Ark
in Hong Kong in May 2009 ... clan
restructured its trusts to eliminate eldest brother Walter
Kwok as a beneficiary, shifting his shares to his children |
Lee
Shau Kee
nicknamed "Asia's Warren Buffett" |
| Cheng
Yu-tung ... |
Joseph
Lau
socialite ... art collector, paid $39 million for Paul
Gaugin's Te Poipoi ... spent $9.5 million for a 7.03-carat
blue diamond ... one of largest collectors of red wine,
with at least 10,000 bottles |
Sir
Michael Kadoorie & family
Kadoorie is the scion of a family of Iraqi Jews who made
an early fortune in Shanghai a century ago and later settled
in Hong Kong ... was knighted in the U.K. for his extensive
charitable and philanthropic activities |
Zhang
Zhirong
his first real estate development project was Sunshine
Greenland in Shanghai in 1996 |
Peter
Woo & family
inherited fortune from father-in-law, Sir Y.K.Pao ...
recently finished building one of Shanghai's tallest office
structures, located in the city's pricey Jing'An district |
| William
Fung ... |
Chee
Chen Tung & family
has 280 offices in 55 countries |
Nina
Wang
widow of husband
kidnapped in 1990, died 5 April 2007, age 69.
She was worth $4.2 billion |