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A colourful life

Chinachem

1937: born Kung Yu-sum in Shanghai

Early 1950s: comes to Hong Kong with childhood friend Teddy Wang Teh-huei

1955: marries Teddy

1960: Teddy makes will leaving estate divided equally between father and wife

1963: Teddy's new will names father Wang Din-shin as sole executor and beneficiary allegedly after Nina is having affair

Early 1980s: Teddy becomes one of Hong Kong's top tycoons

1983: Teddy kidnapped: released after Nina pays HK$11 million ransom

Early 1990s: new will drawn up, leaving everything to Nina

Apr 1990: Teddy kidnapped again, never reappears. Nina takes control of Chinachem

1996: Nina announces plan for world's tallest skyscraper, but it is never built

Sep 1999: Teddy declared dead

Nov 2002: Teddy's 1990 will declared a forgery, estate awarded to Wang Din-shin (left)

Dec 2002: Nina arrested on suspicion of forging will

Jun 2004: Nina's appeal against 2002 will ruling rejected

Jan 2005: Nina appears in court charged with forgery, using false instrument and performing acts intended to pervert course of justice

Jul 2005: Court of Final Appeal rules in favour of Nina, returning control of Chinachem to her

Dec 2005: prosecutors drop fraud charges

Apr 3, 2007: Nina dies of cancer

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