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...The company was co-founded in 2018 by Tran, who emigrated from Ho Chi Minh City to Sydney to train as a cardiac surgeon....
...Billionaire Li Ka-shing’s developer CK Asset Holdings made a rare move by agreeing to sell in bulk 152 new residential units in the luxury mid-levels district for HK$21bn ($2.6bn)....
...It put the headquarters back on the market in July, attracting a number of bids including from Li Ka-shing’s Hong Kong property developer CK Asset Holdings....
...Billionaire tycoon Li Ka-shing’s CK Asset has cut new home prices to the lowest levels in seven years, while sales agents expect developers to delay more sales of finished units in the months ahead....
...Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), one of China’s biggest banks, is looking for a new office in Hong Kong for rental or purchase and has recently inspected two new flagship office buildings — Li Ka-shing...
...Ho-fung Hung, a professor of Chinese political economy at Johns Hopkins University, said Beijing’s distrust of Hong Kong business magnates was also evident in moves to reduce their power in the city’s de...
...in honour of Hung Shing, a fishermen and maritime traders’ deity known as the “god of the Southern Sea”....
...Home sales closed by the property development arm of Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka-shing halved from 2021 as the city struggled to revive its economy after years of harsh Covid-19 restrictions....
...There are three key triad societies operating in Hong Kong, the 14K, Sun Yee On, and also Wo Shing Wo. Their operations are fairly vast and quite geographically spread across Asia....
...Victor Li, the elder son of Li Ka-shing and chair of CK Asset, was last month stripped of his role on the standing committee of China’s top political consultative body....
...Hong Kong-based CK Asset Holdings, the conglomerate founded by Li Ka-Shing, the city’s richest person, said it had submitted a tender for the building....
...The Northern Metropolis (continued) Four local property developers — Henderson Land, New World Development, Sun Hung Kai Properties and Li Ka-shing’s Cheung Kong Asset Holdings — together own more than...
...Despite being the only candidate and having the support of political heavyweights and tycoons such as Li Ka-shing, Lee has sought to push forward his campaign by promoting a more approachable image....
...Li Ka-shing, the city’s iconic business magnate, made his fortune picking Hong Kong’s down cycles....
...ParknShop, a supermarket chain owned by Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing’s CK Hutchison, said logistics costs for many imported products had tripled....
...While Hong Kong’s property billionaires, such as nonagenarian Li Ka-shing of CK Asset Holdings, have been overtaken by those in China and India on the region’s rich lists, they remain among Asia’s wealthiest...
...Seeking greater clarity on the dangers of discussing Hong Kong overseas, I approached Eric Yan-ho Lai, the Hong Kong Law fellow at Georgetown University, who was keeping a database on national security cases...
...The book is almost a primer for Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning film Parasite, the luxurious rational space of a high-status house in Seoul hiding dark secrets of violent inequality in its bowels....
...Photography by Tory Ho What is your favourite coffee shop in Hong Kong?...
...“He wants to retain the company’s smartness in property,” Mr Ho said. “But a clear strategy for the longer term is still absent.”...
...It is a very visible sign of the money that has been raised and spent over the past six decades by a club whose members include the likes of Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong’s richest man....
...On a scale of smoothness, Li Ka-shing’s handover to Victor Li would come near the top, while the formal retirement of Stanley Ho, another Hong Kong tycoon who is known as the “godfather” of the booming casino...
...While some prominent Asian investors such as Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings and Li Ka-shing, one of China’s richest men, have invested in Impossible Foods, the region lags behind the US...
...Stanley Ho, 96, has been incapacitated by frail health in recent years....
...Additional reporting by Kenji Kawase, Joyce Ho, Kiran Sharma and Sam Nussey. A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on June 16....
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