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Thailand’s richest man calls for peace and order in Hong Kong, adding his voice to the chorus of condemnation against violence

  • Thailand's richest man Dhanin Chearavanont has bought three full-page newspaper advertisements in Hong Kong to call for an end to violence and return to order
  • Dhanin joins Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka-shing, tycoon Gordon Wu and some of the city’s biggest companies in calling for peace
Dhanin Chearavanont, chairman of Thailand's largest agribusiness group, Charoen Pokphand (CP Group) on August 6, 2004. Photo: Reuters

Dhanin Chearavanont, the Thai industrialist who heads one of Asia’s wealthiest families, has added his voice to a growing chorus of condemnation against ongoing violence in 12 weeks of street protests in Hong Kong, taking out advertisements to call for peace.

The head of Thailand’s Chearavanont family and senior chairman of the Charoen Pokphand Group (CP) called for peace and social order to return to Hong Kong’s streets, in front-page advertisements under his ethnic Chinese name Chia Kok Min in the Oriental Daily News, Sing Tao Daily and Ming Pao.