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In order of influence, they are the Li, Ho, Lo and Hui families. [ 2] The founders of the original four families are Li Sek-peng ( 李石朋 ), Robert Ho Tung ( 何東 ), Hui Oi-chow ( 許愛周) and Lo Cheung-shiu ( 羅長肇 ). [ 1] Of these families, the Lis and the Hos and their descendants are the two most recognized by regular Hong Kong ...
Sassoon ben Salih (1750–1830) and his family were the chief treasurers to the pashas of Baghdad and Southern Iraq. His sons David (1792–1864) and Joseph Sassoon (1795–1872) fled from a new and unfriendly wāli, Dawud Pasha. In 1828 David first went to the Persian Gulf port of Bushehr and in 1832 to Bombay, India, with his large family.
Kadoorie family has donated, in the 1990s, US$500,000 for the construction of the new Shanghai Museum. [6]In 1961, in times of drought in Hong Kong, Mr. Kadoorie donated cement and pipes and the Yim Tin Tsai villagers contributed money and effort and laid the water mains that deliver water from Mud Bay to Yim Tin Tsai island.
Walter Kwok. Walter Kwok Ping-sheung JP ( Chinese: 郭炳湘; Cantonese pronunciation: [kʷɔk̚˧ pɪŋ˧˥.sœŋ˥]; 1950 – 20 October 2018) was a Hong Kong real estate developer. He was the eldest son of Kwok Tak-seng, founder of Sun Hung Kai Properties, and his wife Kwong Siu-hing. Following their father's death in 1990, he and his ...
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Sonia Cheng. Sonia Cheng Chi-Man ( traditional Chinese: 鄭志雯; simplified Chinese: 郑志雯) is a Hong Kong business executive. She is the CEO of Rosewood Hotel Group and the executive director of the New World Development. [1] She is also the vice-chairman of Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group. [2] She was also appointed as an independent non ...
The following article details examples of the game show Family Feud, originally aired in the United States on ABC and CBS and in syndication, elsewhere in the world. Most international versions are produced or distributed by Fremantle (who currently owns rights to formats developed by Mark Goodson Productions).
A pair of complementary flasks from Yongle period (1402–1424) in the Ming dynasty. Chinese ceramics are one of the most significant forms of Chinese art and ceramics globally. They range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles, to hand-built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns, to the sophisticated Chinese porcelain wares ...