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...When Landsec, the UK property company, agreed to sell its stake in the “Walkie Talkie” skyscraper to Hong Kong-based oyster sauce maker Lee Kum Kee last month, a link with Asian condiments was not the only...
...It was only when Lee Bo, aka Paul Lee and a UK national, was subsequently “disappeared” from Hong Kong that a firestorm erupted....
...Photographs: Paul Kasmin Gallery; Gillman Barracks; Leslie Kee/Mujin-To Production; Andre Tei Photography...
...Sun Hung Kai & Co was founded by Hong Kong tycoons Fung King-hey, Kwok Tak-seng and Lee Shau-kee in the late 1960s, then listed in Hong Kong in 1983....
...The company said a total 20 transactions had been cancelled, a huge embarrassment for Lee Shau-kee, Henderson’s high-profile chairman, the FT reports....
...“This was the biggest hit ever,” said Paul Law, executive director of the firm....
...Two months ago, Martin Lee, youngest son of Henderson Land chairman Lee Shau-kee, paid a record HK$68,200 per square foot for a smaller site in the neighbourhood....
...Paul Tang, chief economist at Bank of East Asia, says the price of a 45-square-meter flat was 8.7 times the annual median household income in 2009....
...Back in 1981, he scavenged a pair of trashed red leather car seats from a Rover , hitching them to tubular steel bases with Kee Klamp joints....
...Paul A Young In his Threadneedle Street shop in London’s financial district, Paul Young kept much of the original décor from this former apothecary....
...In 2003 and again last year, Lee Shau-kee, one of Hong Kong’s richest men, failed to privatise Henderson Investment after minority shareholders balked at the price on offer....
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