https://www.scmp.com/rss/109629/feed Born in 1936, Cecil Chao Sze-tsung is a Hong Kong based real estate tycoon and chairman of HK-listed developer Cheuk Nang Holdings. Known for his flamboyant playboy lifestyle, Chao raised eyebrows the world over in September 2012 when he announced a HK$ 500 million bounty to look for a man who could win the heart of his daughter Gigi Chao, who is believed to be lesbian and have married her partner in a civil union overseas. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Hong Kong’s “playboy” property tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tsung has called on the government to source more land to build affordable flats to ease the city’s housing crisis, even at the cost of private developers’ share of the pie. Speaking to the Post in his palatial 16,000-square foot house named Happy Lodge in Pok Fu Lam, the 81-year-old chairman of Cheuk Nang Group, dubbed “playboy” for his numerous girlfriends, said he would “clap my hands and cheer the government” if it reserved between 70 per... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/2137661/cecil-chao-hong-kong-government-needs-more-land-affordable?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/2137661/cecil-chao-hong-kong-government-needs-more-land-affordable?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Mar 2018 01:04:25 +0000 Tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tsung has launched a succession plan that will allow his daughter, Gigi Chao, to take the helm of the family property company Cheuk Nang. Cecil Chao, the 78-year-old chairman of Cheuk Nang, said yesterday that he would propose promoting his daughter to vice-chairwoman of the board next month. He is also planning to set up a trust fund and use part of the money for charity. The family came under the spotlight in 2012 after Cecil Chao offered HK$500 million to any man who... https://www.scmp.com/news/article/1567240/gigi-chao-chosen-father-take-over-hong-kongs-cheuk-nang?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/1567240/gigi-chao-chosen-father-take-over-hong-kongs-cheuk-nang?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Aug 2014 20:45:30 +0000 The deal is off. For the time being. Cecil Chao Sze-tsung has rescinded his HK$1 billion proposal to find his daughter a good husband, but insists Gigi’s lesbian partner will never be part of the family. After announcing last week that he was doubling the original deal for HK$500 million, the property tycoon told CNN Television on Thursday that he was retracting the offer. “Her private life is hers,” Chao said, adding that it didn’t matter whether or not he accepted it. "If this is her choice,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1417997/my-daughters-lesbian-partner-not-welcome-family-says-gigi-chaos?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1417997/my-daughters-lesbian-partner-not-welcome-family-says-gigi-chaos?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:30:45 +0000 Lesbian socialite Gigi Chao has issued a public plea to her property tycoon father Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, urging him to accept her as she is and treat her gay partner as a "normal dignified human being". A week after her father doubled a "dowry" to find her a husband to HK$1 billion, the 33-year-old has written an open letter to him in which she expresses "regret'' at his inability to understand how happy she is with Sean Eav, who she married in 2012. Beginning the lengthy and heartfelt letter... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1416160/gigi-chao-issues-open-letter-father-cecil-chao-accept-partner-sean?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1416160/gigi-chao-issues-open-letter-father-cecil-chao-accept-partner-sean?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:29:22 +0000 Hong Kong socialite Gigi Chao was reluctantly thrown into the spotlight when her tycoon father Cecil Chao Sze-tsung declared his refusal to accept she was a lesbian by issuing a HK$500 million ‘dowry’ to a man that could marry her. Now she has written a poignant open letter to him after he doubled his offer last week. Despite the fact that Gigi Chao married her partner of nine years, Sean Eav, in a civil ceremony in France in 2012, her property developer father has continued to attract the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1415791/dear-daddy-you-must-accept-im-lesbian-gigi-chao-pens-plea-open-letter?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1415791/dear-daddy-you-must-accept-im-lesbian-gigi-chao-pens-plea-open-letter?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Jan 2014 13:00:15 +0000 Even a billion dollars would not be enough to find a man that Gigi Chao, the lesbian daughter of property tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, would be willing to marry. "I don't think my dad's offering of any amount of money would be able to attract a man I would find attractive," she told the South China Morning Post after her father announced he had doubled the HK$500 million "dowry" that he had earlier offered in an effort to find her a husband. In an interview with the Malaysian newspaper Nanyang... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1411617/billion-dollars-man-who-marries-my-lesbian-daughter-gigi-chao-upset?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1411617/billion-dollars-man-who-marries-my-lesbian-daughter-gigi-chao-upset?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Jan 2014 03:15:30 +0000 A Hollywood film loosely inspired by Hong Kong billionaire Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, who offered HK$500 million to any man able to woo and wed his lesbian daughter, Gigi, will be written by Danish screenwriters and comedians Casper Christensen and Frank Hvam, media reports say. The duo shot to fame after their 2010 cult comedy hit Klown, which centres on two friends who go on a trip to a brothel, but one of them kidnaps his girlfriend's 12-year-old nephew to prove he can be a good father. British... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1234092/two-danish-comics-write-sacha-baron-cohens-film-gigi-chaos-story?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1234092/two-danish-comics-write-sacha-baron-cohens-film-gigi-chaos-story?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 09 May 2013 16:13:20 +0000 Gigi Chao and her father may have different opinions about how she lives her life, but that did not deter them from enjoying a night at the theatre under the same roof last night. Gigi arrived at the Grand Theatre of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre with her partner Sean Eav to see the musical Dirty Dancing, shortly before property tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tsung made his appearance. "Hong Kong is small. It's easy to be at the same occasion," Gigi said, when asked if this was a step forward in her... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1219493/gigi-chao-partner-and-dad-attend-dirty-dancing-show-separately?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1219493/gigi-chao-partner-and-dad-attend-dirty-dancing-show-separately?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Wealthy people are definitely different. Not content with having her father publicly “out” her and drag her through the world’s press by offering a HK$500 million bounty for a husband to make her straight, lesbian Gigi Chao has now given a full sit-down talk to Hong Kong Tatler. Sorry, that should read full sit down helicopter ride, with pilot Gigi at the controls as she whisks the scribe over dad Cecil’s Pok Fu Lam spread Villa Cecil, which also doubles as her helicopter pad. What emerges from... https://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1202377/gigi-chao-reluctant-celebrity?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1202377/gigi-chao-reluctant-celebrity?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:12:22 +0000 I don’t suppose any Hong Kong person seriously thought Cecil Chao, wealthy playboy of the parish and brother of shipping tycoon George, would ever become an international media star. But as Andy Warhol famously said, everyone can be famous for 15 minutes. And Cecil’s attempts to wrest daughter Gigi away from her lesbian partner and into the arms of marriage to a bloke have failed spectacularly,  but secured the 15 minutes. Even the offer of HK$500 million has failed to get Gigi to team up with... https://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1140032/cecil-chaos-15-minutes-fame-continues-gigi-pledge-renewal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1140032/cecil-chaos-15-minutes-fame-continues-gigi-pledge-renewal?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:11:09 +0000 It's been a year of unforgettable stories from Hong Kong, China and around the world. From the magic of the Olympics in London, the tight race for the White House in the US presidential election to the shock revelation that Hong Kong chief executive hopeful Henry Tang Ying-yen had a palatial - but illegal - basement under his home, there have been stories variously jaw-dropping, depressing, emotive and exciting. It's also been a big year for the Post's website, scmp.com, which welcomed more... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1115202/best-stories-2012-south-china-morning-post?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1115202/best-stories-2012-south-china-morning-post?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 29 Dec 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Unexpected fame from his efforts to find a male suitor for his daughter, who has married her lesbian partner, has not changed the lifestyle of billionaire playboy Cecil Chao Sze-tsung. He still enjoys the companionship of more than one woman, he still prefers a desk phone to a mobile - and he still doesn't believe in same-sex relationships. He also isn't too interested in what daughter Gigi is saying publicly about her own relationship with Sean Eav, her female partner of seven years. "I don't... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1062639/big-spending-cecil-chaos-billions-do-not-interfere-his-happiness?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1062639/big-spending-cecil-chaos-billions-do-not-interfere-his-happiness?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Property tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tsung said he would be happy to help Hollywood filmmakers create a comedy based on his HK$500 million marriage bounty offer for his daughter Gigi, but on the condition that he was portrayed in a positive light. The chairman of Cheuk Nang Holdings said he hoped the producers would get in touch with him soon. "Why don't they contact me? I can give them some good information," Chao, 76, told the South China Morning Post yesterday. "I'd be pleased to help them, but... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1062751/film-about-dowry-must-make-me-look-good-says-cecil-chao?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1062751/film-about-dowry-must-make-me-look-good-says-cecil-chao?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Billionaire playboy Cecil Chao, who offered nearly HK$500 million to any man who could turn his lesbian daughter Gigi straight, has now said he hopes that the "change" will occur naturally. Property magnate Chao, 76, offered the bounty after finding out about his daughter's marriage to her partner of eight years Sean Eav. He told the US TV network ABC he had now accepted 33-year-old Gigi's "gay tendencies'' but dropped hints that he wants her to "reconsider her choice". "I'm not saying that... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1060634/cecil-chao-hopes-natural-cure-gay-daughter-gigi?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1060634/cecil-chao-hopes-natural-cure-gay-daughter-gigi?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 This is the only time ever in history that a country has been bombed by its own ally Pakistan cricket star turned politician Imran Khan slams U.S. drone strikes   He is trying to salvage his image, but it's useless because we've seen his tears too many times A historian on Premier Wen Jiabao's visits to disaster zones   People get the impression that this looks like Romeo and Juliet, that I'm a conservative father. But I'm not Tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tung denies he is forcing his lesbian daughter... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1055562/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1055562/who-said-it?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Real estate tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tsung says he was stunned by the global reaction to his offer to pay a HK$500 million marriage bounty to the man who could win his daughter's heart. "All the reaction was very shocking. I really didn't expect this," the 76-year-old told the Sunday Morning Post. "All I want is for my daughter to have a better chance to choose a better path for her life." Chao made the offer after his daughter Gigi Chao, 33, apparently married her same-sex partner of seven years,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1055553/cecil-chao-stunned-reaction-his-well-intended-marriage-bounty-offer?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1055553/cecil-chao-stunned-reaction-his-well-intended-marriage-bounty-offer?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Hong Kong playboy tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tsung's offer of HK$500 million to the man who succeeds in marrying his lesbian daughter Gigi Chao is heading for the big screen. British comic actor and filmmaker Sacha Baron Cohen has signed with Paramount Pictures to develop The Lesbian, a film based on the family drama that went viral around the world, according to showbiz media. Variety and The Hollywood Reporter say the film will be produced through the Golden Globe-winning star's company Four by Two... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1054976/cecil-chao-lesbian-marriage-reward-offer-be-sacha-baron-cohen-movie?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1054976/cecil-chao-lesbian-marriage-reward-offer-be-sacha-baron-cohen-movie?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Little has been heard from playboy property tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tsung since he offered a HK$500 million dowry last month to any man able to convince his daughter Gigi Chao to divorce her wife and marry her suitor. Applications quickly began flooding in from around the world, prompting Gigi Chao’s plea for an end to the harassment. Now the story, first reported by the South China Morning Post on September 26, is back in the news with a Hollywood twist. According to entertainment website... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1054416/dictator-star-signs-deal-make-film-based-gigi-chao?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1054416/dictator-star-signs-deal-make-film-based-gigi-chao?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Oct 2012 02:52:27 +0000 I'll never forget the first time my mother met my then fiancé, now husband. She thought he was too old, too tall and too white - in that order. Her dissatisfaction was not subtle, either. We were sitting in a nice restaurant and my mother started to cry. Her cries became full-on sobs and, soon, everyone in the restaurant thought my husband was actually her husband and that he was breaking up with her. My mother is not alone in her attempt to influence who her child marries. For centuries,... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1052438/cecil-chao-isnt-only-hk-parent-trying-dictate-marriage-terms?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1052438/cecil-chao-isnt-only-hk-parent-trying-dictate-marriage-terms?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 On tycoon Cecil Chao's HK$500m reward for a caring man to marry his gay daughter: Terry Yau - Goes to show that being rich, in this case, definitely doesn't mean having a graceful personality. He's just absolutely embarrassing himself more than anything else. Philip Ho - There is nothing wrong with being a member of the LGBT [community]. Cecil Chao is such a bigot, as one's sexual orientation has got nothing to do with anyone, including parents. Leave Gigi alone, for goodness sake. Judy Baxter -... https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/1052619/whats-being-said-facebookcom/southchinamorningpost-october-3-2012?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/letters/article/1052619/whats-being-said-facebookcom/southchinamorningpost-october-3-2012?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Tragedies involving the loss of lives are terrible, but they are worse when they strike during festive occasions. Monday's ferry collision killed 38, just as tens of thousands gathered to watch the National Day fireworks. A hit-and-run at sea? It all doesn't make sense. We don't yet know the full story. An inquiry will unearth the facts. But this is a tragedy that, on the face of it, could have been avoided. Someone needs to pay. Times are changing for property fat cats The tycoons are crying... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1052481/many-questions-surround-shocking-marine-tragedy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1052481/many-questions-surround-shocking-marine-tragedy?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Gay rights activists have called on the Equal Opportunities Commission to repair damage done to Hong Kong's image by property tycoon Cecil Chao Sze tsung's bizarre offer to pay someone HK$500 million to wed his lesbian daughter. Pink Season festival organiser Anshuman Das said the EOC should step in because Chao's bounty sent "mixed signals" about Hongkongers' attitudes toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights. "It is definitely part of the EOC's duties to improve Hong Kong's... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1050478/gay-rights-activists-decry-cecil-chaos-husband-bounty-lesbian?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1050478/gay-rights-activists-decry-cecil-chaos-husband-bounty-lesbian?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Gigi Chao is pleading for a halt to the flood of messages she has received after her father, property tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, came up with a HK$500 million bounty to find her a husband. Posting on her Facebook account, Gigi Chao wrote: "Dear earthlings, thank you for your flood of marriage proposals, love letters, business proposals, death threats and other general correspondence. "Whether you are Muslim, Catholic, atheist, Hindu or [whatever] your world views may be, I implore you to stop... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1050479/gigi-chao-asks-public-stop-bothering-her-facebook-plea?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1050479/gigi-chao-asks-public-stop-bothering-her-facebook-plea?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Gigi Chao, who recently announced she had married her girlfriend, wants her father, Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, to retract his HK$500 million bounty for a suitable man to marry her. But he says the "manhunt" is for her own good and will offer her "one more choice in life" other than her same-sex partner. The highly public exchange via the media, and the flood of proposals from all over the world in response to Chao's offer, have come before the pair have had time to talk it over face to face. But Gigi... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1049827/gigi-chao-tells-daddy-retract-offer-hk500m-any-man-who-will-marry-her?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1049827/gigi-chao-tells-daddy-retract-offer-hk500m-any-man-who-will-marry-her?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tsung says "applications" have flooded in from around the world since he put up a HK$500 million bounty to find a man to win the heart of his daughter, Gigi. "People send me letters, e-mails and faxes," Chao told the Post. He has received about 100 applications. "I haven't had time to read them yet. I'll have to discuss it with Gigi." The property mogul has been at the centre of worldwide attention and had to field a flurry of résumés and photographs since launching the... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1048973/applications-coming-thick-and-fast-tycoons-daughter?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1048973/applications-coming-thick-and-fast-tycoons-daughter?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Gigi Chao, the daughter of property tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, said she thought the HK$500 million marriage bounty offered by her father to find her a husband was "quite entertaining". Speaking in a light-hearted tone, Chao told the Post: "He [her father] has an interesting interpretation of me." Just a week ago, she was quoted in the Beijing press as saying that she had wed her gay partner of seven years, Sean Eav, five months ago in France. Although the country has yet to recognise gay... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1048069/property-heir-gigi-chao-has-laugh-over-fathers-bounty-her-heart?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1048069/property-heir-gigi-chao-has-laugh-over-fathers-bounty-her-heart?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:00:00 +0000 It's a story for a TVB soap opera - but it's happening in real life. Hong Kong's pre-eminent playboy tycoon has gone public to denounce his eldest daughter's plan to settle down with her - female - long-time lover. Property developer Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, 76, whose life seems to have been inspired more by emulating Casanova than nurturing his business interests, turns out to have a very traditional view of marriage after all. He is set on a collision course with his openly gay daughter,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1047231/cecil-chao-offers-hk500-million-man-who-can-woo-lesbian-daughter?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1047231/cecil-chao-offers-hk500-million-man-who-can-woo-lesbian-daughter?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Sep 2012 16:00:00 +0000 Police are investigating a complaint about noise from a helicopter landing and taking off from tycoon Cecil Chao Sze-tsung's luxury villa in Southern District. The complaint was lodged by an unidentified foreign woman resident, who filed a report to police at about 11.30am yesterday, saying the helicopter had taken off from Villa Cecil in Victoria Road. Mr Chao, who was piloting the chopper, said he was transporting friends from his house to his luxury yacht. The Civil Aviation Department said... https://www.scmp.com/article/603193/tycoons-helicopter-irks-nearby-resident?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/603193/tycoons-helicopter-irks-nearby-resident?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 05 Aug 2007 16:00:00 +0000 She may no longer be the queen of the glitzy set as she was during her celebrated relationship with multi-millionaire Cecil Chao, but Terri Holladay has no need to worry about where to find her next meal. She is still so sought after by the advertising industry that one company, by her account, was prepared to pay $1 million for her to pose on a mattress. Ms Holladay decided that would be too demeaning for a mother with a six-year-old son. Perhaps it was. But a professional model who can... https://www.scmp.com/article/314391/holladay-money?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/314391/holladay-money?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Apr 2000 16:00:00 +0000 Cheuk Nang Properties' (Holdings) profits have been boosted by the sale of phase one of its Villa Cecil development in Pokfulam, according to chairman Cecil Chao Sze-tsung. He said the company had generated $230 million in proceeds from the sale of eight of its 10 villas in phase one. The sales had contributed 'significant' profit to the company and the proceeds would be booked in the present and the next financial year, he said. The company needs to invest another $220 million for... https://www.scmp.com/article/300076/pokfulam-project-keeps-cheuk-nang-profit-track?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/300076/pokfulam-project-keeps-cheuk-nang-profit-track?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:00:00 +0000 Cheuk Nang Properties (Holdings) will have its earnings boosted this year by the sale of five luxury houses worth about $100 million at Villa Cecil phase one in Pokfulam, according to executive chairman Cecil Chao Sze-tsung. The company was also in talks to sell another luxury house in the project, he said. Cheuk Nang had previously said it would keep phase one, comprising 10 houses, for long-term investment. Mr Chao said the company would release phase two of the development and another... https://www.scmp.com/article/289473/house-sales-boost-cheuk-nang?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/289473/house-sales-boost-cheuk-nang?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:00:00 +0000 Cheuk Nang Properties (Holdings) executive chairman Cecil Chao Sze-tsung expects the firm to generate $120 million from the sale of a luxury residential site on The Peak. The company is offering a 24,000-square-foot site at Severn Road for tender. The site was bought at a land auction in 1992 for $33 million. Mr Chao said the asking price had taken into account $20 million it had invested in site formation. 'We have to sell our properties to support earnings, even though the market is... https://www.scmp.com/article/269056/peak-site-expected-bring-120m?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/269056/peak-site-expected-bring-120m?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:00:00 +0000 MODEL Terri Holladay, the former partner of millionaire businessman Cecil Chao Sze-tsung, is suing two solicitors' firms for negligence. Ms Holladay, 29, who bore a son to the flamboyant property magnate, has worked as a model for the Elite Modelling Agency following the highly publicised split in 1995. She is suing Fred Kan and Company and Stephenson Harwood and Lo, and interlocutory proceedings are due to be held on Wednesday, with the case estimated to take six to nine months to come to... https://www.scmp.com/article/213967/tycoons-ex-partner-terri-sues-lawyers-negligence?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/213967/tycoons-ex-partner-terri-sues-lawyers-negligence?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 04 Oct 1997 16:00:00 +0000 SOCIALITE property tycoon Cecil Chao admitted yesterday he had patched up his much-publicised rift with former lover Terri Holladay for the sake of their 21/2-year-old son Roman. The pair arrived and left together at one of the territory's biggest social events, the Tatler Ball at the weekend, the first time they have been photographed together since their break-up a year ago. Mr Chao, 59, said he was 'together' with Ms Holladay again because they were both trying to build a family for... https://www.scmp.com/article/152258/cecil-and-terri-back-together-son?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/152258/cecil-and-terri-back-together-son?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 09 Mar 1996 16:00:00 +0000 ARE Terri and Cecil Chao courting again, after their tacky break-up over a woman with a penchant for silicone? In spite of their well-documented slanging match in the wake of the split, our spies swear to seeing the couple out together recently. Reconciliation, or at least an amicable divorce, would save Cecil a fortune in legal fees, after all. https://www.scmp.com/article/151347/cecil-keeps-things-cosy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/151347/cecil-keeps-things-cosy?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 02 Mar 1996 16:00:00 +0000 JUST when you thought the salacious outpourings surrounding Terri Holladay's private life were finally done with, Back bites regrets to advise there are more, much more, to come. For Ms Holladay, who bounced back from her bust-up with tycoon Cecil Chao with such gusto that she is now a regular on the Hong Kong social scene again, has teamed up with a promoter and now her agent, Shiela Arora. The word is Terri plans to write an autobiography, perhaps a kiss and tell. We reckon a script for a very... https://www.scmp.com/article/136949/terris-book-woe?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/136949/terris-book-woe?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 28 Oct 1995 16:00:00 +0000 REAL estate tycoon Cecil Chao has good reason to be peeved with hotel magnate Michael Kadoorie. When Kadoorie opened the helipad at his mega-buck refurbished Peninsula for business Chao was hoping it would make his life that much easier. How much better to fly over from his Pokfulam villa with exotic American-Vietnamese wife Terri for dinner at Gaddi's or Felix than endure traffic in the harbour tunnel in one of his fleet of Rolls-Royces? No such luck. For Chao has since discovered that only... https://www.scmp.com/article/97876/chao-chopper-barred-kadoories-pad?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/97876/chao-chopper-barred-kadoories-pad?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 29 Nov 1994 16:00:00 +0000 MUM and Dad will no doubt have words with him about the correct procedure when posing for the press. But this was Roman's first experience of prying lenses, so he can be excused for shutting his eyes wearily when Cecil and Terri Chao allowed Keeping Postedto have the first peek at their three-month-old bundle of joy. The nursery at the sprawling Villa Cecil duplex in Pokfulam is now a picture in blue - the workmen building Terri's studio where she plans to do her painting having been... https://www.scmp.com/article/45013/mums-word-roman-takes-over-chao-empire?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/45013/mums-word-roman-takes-over-chao-empire?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Sep 1993 16:00:00 +0000 IT is impossible to go to any function at the moment without finding the topic of conversation drifting to the question that appears to be riveting Hongkong: Was there or wasn't there food on offer when business tycoon Cecil Chao threw a birthday bash for his wife, Terri? Unfortunately, due to another pressing engagement, I was unable to find out for myself. Although I have to offer in Cecil's defence that, whenever I have attended parties hosted by him, I always returned home amply filled. ... https://www.scmp.com/article/24022/chao-party-provides-food-thought-if-not-eat?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/24022/chao-party-provides-food-thought-if-not-eat?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Mar 1993 16:00:00 +0000 CECIL Chao, ancient squillionaire and property person, recently wed Terri Holladay, 24-year-old body beautiful. I did not talk to Terri (incredibly, I was not invited) at Happy Lodge, part of the understated 15,000 square foot cliffside compound of Villa Cecil. Tatler magazine did, saving me the tedious haul out to Pokfulam and $7 in minibus fares. It's a bit of a cheat; I've taken parts of that article and made it an interview. The extracts are real. I swear I did not make them up.... https://www.scmp.com/article/19294/getting-down-basics-high-society-lovebirds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/19294/getting-down-basics-high-society-lovebirds?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Feb 1993 16:00:00 +0000