As Hong Kong entrepreneurs from the 1960s pass retirement age, their families are faced with the often difficult problems of succession. Liana Cafolla talks to both business experts and family...
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2 Mar 2013
"Why am I working 60-plus hours a week to grow this business while my siblings share equally in the dividends but don't have the responsibilities I have?"
This is a question that Johnston...
18 Feb 2013
Despite the positive headlines you may read in the state media, a good number of these businessmen are quite worried about the country's economic prospects and their own ability to keep and grow...
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9 Nov 2012
Hong Kong family businesses are increasingly becoming targets of takeovers by institutional investors as the older generation of entrepreneurs retires, bankers say.
24 Sep 2012
No one in Hong Kong needs to be told about the importance of family-run companies - more of them are listed here than on any other major stock exchange.
'It's not fair, Dad. It's not fair, Mum.' This is one of the first complaints that young children make to their parents. And now it's a cry that's echoing through the boardrooms of Asia's family...
It is unfortunate that a man as successful as casino mogul Stanley Ho Hung-sun should have to spend the last years of his life fighting his own offspring over how his business empire should be...
Some believe that work and family don't mix, but certain family-run businesses manage to make it happen, and many do so with the help of university training programmes designed specifically for...
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