Lee Shau-Kee

Only a crash will rid market of greedy speculators

27 Feb 2013

Public Eye totally opposes the government's latest market-cooling measures. Blind greed has already possessed the entire property market. What we need to do is to exorcise this greed. Cooling...

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Tycoon Lee Shau-kee may donate land for cheap housing

23 Feb 2013

Property tycoon Lee Shau-kee is considering donating farmland to the government to use for affordable housing, his company confirmed yesterday. Henderson Land Development, one of the city's...

Letters to the Editor, January 12, 2013

12 Jan 2013

HK$1m flats not that simple a solution

Hong Kong has a number of different problems. We face political divisions, a widening wealth gap and the need to provide more flats for our citizens...

Li retains lead in Hong Kong rich list with US$30b fortune

11 Jan 2013

Property tycoon Li Ka-shing is still Hong Kong's richest man thanks mainly to a property boom that helped boost his personal wealth last year to US$30 billion.

Good year for Hong Kong’s property billionaires

10 Jan 2013

Li Ka-shing remains Hong Kong’s richest man – with a US$8 billion increase in wealth over the past year, according to the latest Forbes’ list released on Thursday.

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Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

Many problems for potential development in New Territories

Property analysts say implementing a proposal by Lee Shau-kee, chairman of Henderson Land, to build low-priced homes in the New Territories will not be easy.

Developer that bought Union Hospital site wanted to build flats

A plot of government land in Sha Tin that was slated for private hospital development landed in the hands of a group of merchants and bankers in 1982 and control was later transferred to tycoon Li...

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Developers' profit warning shot down

Property tycoon Lee Shau-kee last week raised a red flag over concerns that the profit margins of Hong Kong property developers were being threatened by rising construction costs and increased...

After two girls we can't wait for a boy, says Cathy Chui

Cathy Chui Chi-kei made her first public appearance since giving birth in mid-May to Henderson Land Development heir Martin Lee Ka-shing's second daughter, Hayley.

A culture of giving can help our universities excel

The news that tycoon Li Ka-shing has pledged a whopping HK$2 billion to Shantou University in Guangdong has made headlines. It is only three years ago that he made his extraordinary donation of...

Lee Shau-kee denies wrongdoings

Property tycoon Lee Shau-kee admitted yesterday that his extended family, including his mainland-based younger brother Li Zhaonan, had invested in companies listed there. But he said the stakes...