HONG KONG -- Casino tycoon Stanley Ho, whose business empire dominated the Portuguese gambling enclave of Macao for decades, has died in Hong Kong at age 98.
Ho's studies at Hong Kong University were interrupted by World War II. Fluent in English and Chinese, he was working as a telephone operator for British forces when the colony fell to Japan. He boarded a boat for neutral Macao, joining refugees from mainland China in the dying fishing port.During the war, Ho said he ran nighttime smuggling and trading trips up the Pearl River Delta, on one occasion surviving a pirate attack.
Ho fathered children with two other women, Ina Chan and Angela Leong, whom he also referred to as his "wives." Ho reportedly met Chan, a nurse, when she was hired to care for Leitao, who died in 2004. SJM's market share in Macao dropped to 14% in 2019 from the more than 30% share it held a decade earlier.
Ho is survived by three of his wives and 16 children -- his eldest son, Robert, died in a car crash in Portugal in 1981.
And the world got just a little better. ChinaEmbOttawa triads-tongs-masons, oh my. You should allow Ho's in Canada to travel to Hong Kong in this time of loss 😉
only the special people get noticed when they die by the news media... those elderly dead Canadians... well they are just a Number in the COVID CON 2020
Good riddance, commercial gambling catalyzes the decay of society.
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