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Hong Kong’s elite say final farewell to ‘King of Gambling’ Stanley Ho
- Political and business leaders attend funeral service on Friday afternoon
- Chinese President Xi Jinping and British royal family among those to send condolences
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Hundreds of Hong Kong’s political and business leaders bid their final farewells to Stanley Ho Hung-sun, patriarch of Asia’s largest casino empire and the “King of Gambling”, on Friday.
Ho’s family members and friends arrived at the Hong Kong Funeral Home in North Point on Friday morning to prepare for the funeral service.
Among them were his daughter Pansy Ho Chiu-king, his fourth wife Angela Leong On Kei, and former Hong Kong lawmaker Timothy Fok Tsun-ting, son of Henry Fok Ying-tung, a business tycoon and long-time friend of Ho who died in 2006.
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Ho, whose name was synonymous with Macau’s rise to overtake Las Vegas as the world’s gambling capital, died at the Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital in Happy Valley on May 26 at the age of 98. He is survived by three wives and 14 of his 16 children.
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At Friday afternoon’s funeral service, Pansy Ho thanked at least 21 present and former leaders of China, including President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang, Vice-Premier Han Zheng, as well as former premiers Zhu Rongji and Wen Jiabao for sending eulogies. Many of them also sent wreaths.
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