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...In 2019, Colony acquired data centre investor Digital Bridge Holdings and named its founder, Marc Ganzi, as Barrack’s successor....
...and the imposition of new rules regulating the industry, would deprive casinos of crucial income from big spenders and spell an end to nearly two decades of rising casino profits in the former Portuguese colony...
...She notes the prevailing view that Hong Kong, a British colony for more than 150 years, occupied by Japan during the second world war, handed back to China in 1997 and with a large expat community, “has...
...As part of Beijing’s tightening control of the former British colony, most directly elected district council seats have been scrapped and pro-democracy candidates barred from contesting the remainder....
Beijing’s increased control of former British colony has chipped away at power of territory’s tycoons
...The group plans to revive the sale of the historic former Excelsior hotel site it is redeveloping into a commercial property, built on the first plot of land sold after Hong Kong became a British colony...
...Using a smuggling route established to bring contraband western goods from Hong Kong, then still a British colony, he managed to escape. Wang Dan and Wang Juntao were not so lucky....
...Previous victims include Dwell, Habitat, MFI, ScS and Sofa Workshop. What Made tried to argue was that it was different from rival furniture sellers — and that its customers were too....
...Regulatory filings show an entity called Rhombus Kaiser Ltd invested in European funds, including one managed by Bridgepoint....
...With dozens of Covid infections reported over the weekend — the most in the former Portuguese colony since the start of the pandemic — analysts said casinos’ revenues were likely to fall to “near-zero levels...
...Relations have unravelled on the back of the US-China trade war and China’s recent move to impose a national security law on Britain’s former colony of Hong Kong....
...SC Lowy’s Lee called the recent rise in missed bond payments “ironic, since China’s economic data are fantastic”....
...In 2018, the group hailed Merlin Swire’s appointment and move to Hong Kong as a sign of the company’s unwavering commitment to the former British colony....
...“The difficulty for investors today is the uncertainty as to whether state entities are prepared to help,” said Michel Lowy, chief executive of SC Lowy, an alternative asset manager focused on distressed...
...Tom Barrack, the former chief executive of Colony Capital who was one of Donald Trump’s earliest supporters in the 2016 presidential campaign, has been arrested and charged with illegally acting as an agent...
...The sell-off “serves as a reminder that a state-owned enterprise being a shareholder doesn’t mean you are taking sovereign risk”, said Michel Lowy, chief executive at SC Lowy, a distressed debt investor...
...Alongside Jardine Matheson, Swire is one of two British colonial trading houses that still loom large over the former UK colony. It has run Cathay Pacific Airways for more than 70 years....
...In recent years, China has stamped its authority harder on the former British colony than was widely expected, forcing significant reassessments. For many, the lesson has been: say nothing....
...As the colony of a neutral nation, Macau during the war years was a twilight zone of Portuguese and Macanese administrators, Chinese refugees and Japanese spies....
...The former British colony reverted to Chinese sovereignty in 1997....
...launch the tech-focused Star board in Shanghai might divert listings from Hong Kong’s exchange, which enjoys a monopoly on all stock, bond, futures and derivatives trading and clearing in the former British colony...
...The announcement comes as Hong Kong faces fresh questions about its autonomy after the Chinese Communist party redoubled its efforts to exert control over the former British colony....
...Two Hong Kong firms, SSG and SC Lowy, may be keen too....
...These manufacturers transformed the colony’s economy, building the city’s fortunes along with their own....
...Aside from the sheer size of the sum paid by a company that loomed large in Hong Kong during the city’s 150-odd years as a British crown colony, Jardines’ Shanghai auction prize was notable for being its...
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