Knights Bachelor

11 Nov 2012

A 'normal guy' from Nottingham, Paul Smith has built his fashion empire with quiet dignity and an all-seeing eye. Jing Zhang reports.

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Joanna Hotung: The child educator with a passion for creative arts

9 Oct 2012

You only need to be around Joanna Hotung for a few minutes to realise her enthusiasm for whatever she is undertaking. Whether discussing her work with children in the creative arts or bringing...

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Richard Rogers

17 Jun 2012

FAREWELL TO FLORENCE I found the first half of my life much more difficult than the second half. My parents were Italian, my mother was a potter from Trieste, and I was born in Florence.

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The house of Ho

27 May 2012

'I would call it all second to garbage,' says Robert Ho Hung-ngai, with a self-deprecating laugh, after an hour recollecting his life.

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A bad week for ...

20 May 2012

Manny Pacquiao

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Foundation's last-ditch effort to save Ho Tung Gardens

7 May 2012

A foundation backed by a nephew of the owner of Ho Tung Gardens is making a last-ditch effort to save the heritage site before the end of the government's term.

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Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

Collusion bad for HK, says philanthropist

A leading member of one of Hong Kong's most famous families says the city is becoming ungovernable owing to greed and government-business collusion and that it's an open question whether the new...

12:07PM

A humble servant

Few of Hong Kong's most prominent families and clans play themselves down as much as the Ho Tungs.

11:46AM

Old townhouses razed to clear site for apartments

Two decades-old Chinese-style townhouses in Mid-Levels, owned by banker David Li Kwok-po and his uncles, have been demolished despite their grade two historic listing.

11:18AM

Proposal to save mansion rejected

The government is making a last-ditch effort to persuade the owner of Ho Tung Gardens on The Peak to keep at least the facade of the historic mansion.

9:29AM

Lost cause

Ho Tung Gardens, the interwar house and garden complex on The Peak, has been the subject of temporary protection orders, conservation proposals and ill-informed public rhetoric for more than a...

8:21AM

Last ditch plea for Ho Tung Gardens

Few of us were aware of Ho Tung Gardens until the prospect arose last year of the historic mansion on The Peak being torn down for redevelopment. That possibility is imminent now that the...

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