https://www.scmp.com/rss/38635/feed Nina Wang, also known as Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum, was the late chairwoman of Chinachem Group and Asia's richest woman. Born in September 1937, she took over Chinachem after her husband Teddy was mysteriously kidnapped in 1990 and built it into a major property developer. Teddy was never found and was declared dead in 1999. Wang died of cancer in 2007 with an estimated net worth of US$4.2 billion. Her will has been the subject of a court battle after her personal feng shui guru, Tony Chan, was... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Elizabeth Cheung,Denise Tsang Elizabeth Cheung,Denise Tsang Hong Kong authorities are seeking to dissolve the management committee of the Wang Fuk Court owners’ corporation and appoint a new administrator for the residential estate, in an unprecedented move following the city’s deadliest fire in decades. Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs Alice Mak Mei-kuen said on Friday that the government was intervening for the first time on record in an estate’s affairs by applying to the Lands Tribunal to dissolve the management committee of the owners’... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3337085/hong-kong-fire-authorities-seek-dissolve-wang-fuk-court-owners-committee?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3337085/hong-kong-fire-authorities-seek-dissolve-wang-fuk-court-owners-committee?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:03:27 +0000 Lo Hoi-ying Lo Hoi-ying The trust of late billionaire Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum has donated HK$100 million (US$12.8 million) to victims of the deadly Tai Po blaze, surpassing tycoon Li Ka-shing to become the second-largest single donor after the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Nina Wang Charity Management announced on Thursday that it would donate HK$100 million to support the government’s recovery and community rebuilding efforts following the Wang Fuk Court fire, which killed at least 160 people and displaced more than 4,000... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3336010/nina-wang-trust-donates-hk100-million-hong-kong-fire-victims-surpassing-li-ka-shing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3336010/nina-wang-trust-donates-hk100-million-hong-kong-fire-victims-surpassing-li-ka-shing?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:02:29 +0000 Brian Wong Brian Wong A Hong Kong court has extended convicted forger Peter Chan Chun-chuen’s bankruptcy by four years, citing his failure to settle debts owed to the estate of the late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum since losing a high-profile lawsuit over her billion-dollar assets 15 years ago. The High Court on Tuesday suspended Chan’s automatic discharge from a bankruptcy order made in 2021 and ordered that he pay HK$55,000 (US$7,000) in legal fees to an accounting firm that is now in charge of his assets. EY,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3324850/hong-kong-court-extends-bankruptcy-man-who-forged-nina-wangs-will-4-years?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3324850/hong-kong-court-extends-bankruptcy-man-who-forged-nina-wangs-will-4-years?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Sep 2025 05:49:36 +0000 Brian Wong Brian Wong A Hong Kong court has temporarily blocked convicted forger Peter Chan Chun-chuen from being discharged from a bankruptcy order imposed on him after he was found to have faked the will of late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum and failed to pay HK$28.4 million (US$3.6 million) in legal fees to her charitable foundation. Chan, a former feng shui master who claimed to be Wang’s lover, would have been automatically discharged from the High Court’s 2021 bankruptcy order if no valid objection were raised... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3321186/hong-kong-court-blocks-forger-peter-chans-bankruptcy-discharge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3321186/hong-kong-court-blocks-forger-peter-chans-bankruptcy-discharge?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Aug 2025 05:38:12 +0000 Daniel Ren,Peggy Sito Daniel Ren,Peggy Sito Wall Street investment banks stepped up their bullish calls on Chinese equities as Morgan Stanley upgraded its target for a second time in as many months and Goldman Sachs said feedback from clients signalled global interest is at the highest level since the market’s previous peak four years ago. “Broadly, investors’ interest and engagement levels in Chinese equities are arguably at the highest since the market reached its historical peak in early 2021,” Goldman strategists including Kinger Lau... https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3303935/china-back-stock-appetite-post-2021-high-morgan-stanley-raises-targets?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3303935/china-back-stock-appetite-post-2021-high-morgan-stanley-raises-targets?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Mar 2025 07:00:49 +0000 Fiona Chow Fiona Chow A council for the trustee for the more than HK$140 billion (US$18 billion) estate of Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum could be set up next month, potentially ending a decade-long legal saga and allowing the late tycoon’s final wishes to be fulfilled, Hong Kong’s justice minister has said. Secretary for Justice Paul Lam Ting-kwok told lawmakers on Wednesday that he had started looking for suitable council members, who would be responsible for ensuring the estate supported charitable works and public... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3299308/council-overseeing-estate-hong-kongs-nina-wang-be-set-quarter-end?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3299308/council-overseeing-estate-hong-kongs-nina-wang-be-set-quarter-end?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:46:46 +0000 Connor Mycroft Connor Mycroft Hong Kong’s justice minister has appointed three individuals to supervise the operation of a charitable foundation managing the estate of the late Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum, once Asia’s richest woman. The Department of Justice said on Monday that former Legislative Council president Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, ex-Hong Kong Monetary Authority CEO Joseph Yam Chi-kwong and former Baptist University council chairman Cheng Yan-kee had been appointed to serve as members of the supervisory managing organisation... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3293584/hong-kongs-justice-minister-names-3-oversee-late-tycoon-nina-wangs-estate?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3293584/hong-kongs-justice-minister-names-3-oversee-late-tycoon-nina-wangs-estate?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Jan 2025 07:53:06 +0000 Hong Kong real estate tycoon Donald Choi Wun-hing will retire and step down as CEO of property developer Chinachem Group after more than six years on September 1, passing his role to Andy Cheung Lee-ming, currently an independent non-executive director, the company said. Choi, 66, joined the privately owned developer in 2018, filling a two-year vacancy at CEO after the dismissal of Sunny Yeung. A seasoned architect with more than three decades of experience, Choi led a transformation of the... https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3264839/hong-kong-developer-chinachem-names-former-link-reit-executive-next-ceo-donald-choi-sets-retirement?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3264839/hong-kong-developer-chinachem-names-former-link-reit-executive-next-ceo-donald-choi-sets-retirement?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 31 May 2024 05:30:11 +0000 More than 100 wood fossils up to 5.3 million years old have gone on display in a Hong Kong park, where visitors are allowed to touch the ancient remains. The fossils, collected by the late Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum, a billionaire and chairwoman of Chinachem Group, were unveiled on Friday, when the first phase of the park redesign to show off the fossils was opened free of charge to the public. Chinachem, which created Nina Park in Tsuen Wan, said more than 100 pieces of museum-grade wood fossils... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3246705/hong-kong-billionaires-private-collection-fossils-go-show-public-park?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3246705/hong-kong-billionaires-private-collection-fossils-go-show-public-park?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 Dec 2023 12:49:04 +0000 A charitable foundation set up by late Hong Kong tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum is not irreplaceable in the management of her HK$141 billion (US$17.9 million) estate, a court has ruled in leaving the door open for others to take charge of the assets bequeathed by the former richest woman in Asia. The High Court on Friday laid down the principles governing a scheme for implementing and regulating the charitable trusts created by the will of the late chairwoman of property giant Chinachem... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3196843/hong-kong-court-rules-charitable-foundation-nina-wang-not-essential-distributing-tycoons-wealth?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3196843/hong-kong-court-rules-charitable-foundation-nina-wang-not-essential-distributing-tycoons-wealth?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:40:53 +0000 Convicted forger Peter Chan Chun-chuen has been declared bankrupt for failing to pay HK$28.4 million (US$3.6 million) in legal fees owed to the charitable foundation of late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum after the civil suit that determined he had faked her will. Madam Justice Linda Chan Ching-fan on Thursday granted a bankruptcy order petitioned by the Chinachem Charitable Foundation, despite objections from Peter Chan, a former feng shui master who changed his name from Tony and later converted... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3144776/hong-kong-forger-peter-chan-bankrupt-after-failing-pay?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3144776/hong-kong-forger-peter-chan-bankrupt-after-failing-pay?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 Aug 2021 06:10:35 +0000 Convicted forger Peter Chan Chun-chuen was released from a Hong Kong maximum-security prison on Saturday after serving eight years for faking the will of late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum in an attempt to claim her HK$83 billion (US$10.7 billion) fortune. At 8.30am on Saturday, a handful of people were seen waiting outside Stanley Prison for Chan. Among them was his priest. The group also carried a large lotus painting with messages of support. Donning a suit, Chan walked out of prison at 9.35am... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3139686/early-prison-release-former-hong-kong-feng-shui-master?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3139686/early-prison-release-former-hong-kong-feng-shui-master?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Jul 2021 02:20:13 +0000 Chinachem Group is changing its land-bidding strategy to focus on mass housing and move away from super-luxury trophy projects as the Hong Kong developer marked its 60th anniversary in the business. The developer now enjoys the liberty of elevating social and environmental objectives to the same level of importance as profit motives, away from the scrutiny of public shareholders as part of late billionaire Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum’s family trust. Thus, it has no plan to bid at the upcoming... https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3111261/chinachem-shifts-focus-mass-housing-luxury-projects-noble-target-set?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/article/3111261/chinachem-shifts-focus-mass-housing-luxury-projects-noble-target-set?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Nov 2020 04:13:48 +0000 Late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum’s charitable foundation has petitioned for the bankruptcy of Peter Chan Chun-chuen, her alleged former lover and feng shui master who is now serving a 12-year sentence for forging a will in a bid to inherit her multibillion-dollar estate. Chinachem Charitable Foundation filed the bankruptcy petition against Chan on Friday, but the filing records made available on Monday did not disclose the amount of alleged debt that prompted the legal action. The first hearing... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3103315/late-tycoon-nina-wangs-charitable-foundation-files?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3103315/late-tycoon-nina-wangs-charitable-foundation-files?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 28 Sep 2020 06:44:59 +0000 A face-to-face interview with Kiki Wong, a forensics specialist who has spent years researching body language, micro facial expressions and lie detection, is a daunting prospect. “I don’t intentionally seek out information when I meet someone, but there are things that I subconsciously pick up on,” she says. “I’m a pretty good gauge of what kind of person you are. You seem relaxed, not very conservative.” So far, so good. “People might be surprised to learn that 93 per cent of communication is... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/3087489/hong-kong-body-language-expert-donald-trump-carrie-lam-and-barack-obama?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/3087489/hong-kong-body-language-expert-donald-trump-carrie-lam-and-barack-obama?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 04 Jun 2020 21:00:14 +0000 The brother of late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum is pushing to replace the “big four” accounting firm managing his sister’s HK$137 billion (US$17.6 billion) estate, saying the company is charging too much and failing to fulfil its responsibilities. Wang’s younger brother Dr Kung Yan-sum, who sits on Chinachem Group’s executive committee and is chairman of the Chinachem Charitable Foundation, said he had filed a letter with the Department of Justice on Wednesday, seeking to remove PwC as interim... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3009424/brother-late-chinachem-tycoon-nina-wang-seeks-remove-big?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3009424/brother-late-chinachem-tycoon-nina-wang-seeks-remove-big?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 May 2019 13:30:01 +0000 For the past five years behind bars, former feng shui master Peter Chan Chun-chuen, who was convicted of forging a will to inherit the multibillion-dollar estate of late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum, has followed a simple daily routine – pray, jog for an hour, and eat healthy. In a written reply to the Post, via a source in contact with him, Chan, 59, said he had already completed two distance learning courses from Baptist Theological Seminary since 2013, on the Old and New Testament... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2188359/religious-studies-give-jailed-former-feng-shui-master?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/2188359/religious-studies-give-jailed-former-feng-shui-master?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 02 Mar 2019 10:42:18 +0000 A Chinese court has jailed nine former prosecutors for up to 13 years over the case of Hong Kong businessman and hotel owner Stephen Lau Hei-wing, who was tortured to death in custody last year. The Tianjin No 1 Intermediate People’s Court handed down the sentences on Tuesday, giving the nine defendants, most of them from Yanbian prefecture in Jilin province, less than two weeks to appeal the decision. According to a copy of the verdict seen by the South China Morning Post, lead interrogator Xu... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2169869/china-jails-former-prosecutors-over-tortured-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/2169869/china-jails-former-prosecutors-over-tortured-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:38:12 +0000 When Hong Kong tycoon Teddy Wang Teh-huei was kidnapped on April 10, 1990, it wasn’t for the first time, but, on this occasion, the 56-year-old Chinachem Group chairman would not return. “Hopes have all but faded for the safe release of Hong Kong property billionaire, Mr Wong Tak-fei, who was kidnapped – for the second time in seven years – more than five weeks ago. This is despite the fact that half the ransom demanded – an unprecedented US$60 million (HK$468 million) – was paid [by his wife,... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2085359/flashback-kidnapping-hong-kong-billionaire-teddy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/2085359/flashback-kidnapping-hong-kong-billionaire-teddy?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 08 Apr 2017 00:15:30 +0000 Counsel for former feng shui master Peter Chan Chun-chuen told an appeal hearing he had been informed that a key witness in his criminal trial for using a fake will to claim a billionaire’s estate had himself submitted a false document in the original case. Chan, who went under the name Tony until he converted to Christianity in jail, is appealing against his conviction and 12-year jail sentence for forging the will of  tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum  in an attempt to get hold of her HK$83 billion... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1860280/nina-wang-will-battle-hong-kong-feng-shui-master-claims-key?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1860280/nina-wang-will-battle-hong-kong-feng-shui-master-claims-key?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Sep 2015 23:00:00 +0000 Two directors at a listed company and the former chairman of a second listed company have been banned by the regulator from trading stocks after an "extremely serious breach" of the listing code. Chevalier International Holdings chairman Chow Yei-ching and his son and Chevalier director Oscar Chow Vee-tsung have been issued "cold-shoulder" orders prohibiting them from trading stocks for 10 years and 2 years respectively starting on July 2. The order does not apply to their stake in property,... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1831759/sfc-bans-chairmen-chevalier-enm-stock-trading-over-code-breach?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1831759/sfc-bans-chairmen-chevalier-enm-stock-trading-over-code-breach?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Jul 2015 14:00:30 +0000 Yesterday's ruling of the Court of Final Appeal is "almost the last stage" in a series of court battles over the legacy of Asia's richest woman Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum's HK$83 billion estate. The top court gave the last word that the Chinachem Charitable Foundation would hold the estate as a trustee - able to spend it only for a specified purpose - and would not receive any part of it as an absolute gift. Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe said in a 47-page judgment that the appeal was "the last stage,... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1802521/saga-over-nina-wangs-hk83-billion-fortune-almost-end?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/1802521/saga-over-nina-wangs-hk83-billion-fortune-almost-end?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 18 May 2015 18:45:26 +0000 Hong Kong's top court has rejected a final attempt by the Chinachem Charitable Foundation to take greater control of tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum's HK$83 billion estate, ruling the foundation is instead a trustee and must spend the cash only in accordance with her wishes. The Wang-family-led foundation will not receive any part of her estate as an absolute gift, the Court of Final Appeal decided yesterday. The five judges ruled the foundation and the secretary for justice must come up with a... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/1802158/chinachem-foundation-must-follow-late-nina-wangs-will-hk83b?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/1802158/chinachem-foundation-must-follow-late-nina-wangs-will-hk83b?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 18 May 2015 03:30:30 +0000 A court should not rule that late billionaire Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum's fortune should be managed by a charitable trust given that she specified no such thing in her will, the Court of Appeal heard yesterday. Barrister Frank Hinks QC, for the Chinachem Charitable Foundation, made the remark as the foundation challenged a Court of First Instance ruling that it would hold Wang's HK$82 billion estate as a trustee, rather than as an absolute beneficiary. Hinks said that when Wang drafted her will in... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1436572/billionaire-nina-wang-not-clear-intention-will-appeal-court-hears?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1436572/billionaire-nina-wang-not-clear-intention-will-appeal-court-hears?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:30:15 +0000 Three executives of listed companies may face disciplinary action for breaching the takeover code more than a decade ago by helping the late Nina Wang Kung Yu-Sum, once Asia’s richest woman, increase her holdings in a company without making a general offer to small shareholders. The Securities and Futures Commission on Wednesday said it has asked the takeover panel to decide whether to discipline Chevalier Group founding chairman Chow Yei-ching, his son Oscar Chow Vee-Tsung who is a director of... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1361299/chairmen-chevalier-enm-may-face-penalties-helping-late-tycoon?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/1361299/chairmen-chevalier-enm-may-face-penalties-helping-late-tycoon?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:50:41 +0000 Fung shui guru turned Christian Peter Chan Chun-chuen was on the point of screaming he was innocent as the judge sent him to jail for 12 years last month. But Chan says he drew on the strength of his new-found faith and held his tongue. "As I was about to stand up and scream my innocence out loud, I heard the Holy Spirit tell me to calm down. I struggled in my heart and eventually kept quiet," said Chan, fielding questions from the South China Morning Post through one of his friends who visited... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1293665/peter-chan-i-am-famous-being-unpopular-i-will-make-use?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1293665/peter-chan-i-am-famous-being-unpopular-i-will-make-use?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:00:00 +0000 It was compatibility - not black magic or a spell - that kept tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum in love with him, Peter Chan Chun-chuen, the self-styled fung shui master, has claimed from jail. In fact, they were such a perfect match that they never once squabbled, and even talked about Chan getting a divorce and marrying Wang, he said. Chan, 53, who until recently went by the name Tony, was replying to South China Morning Post questions through a friend of his who visited him in prison last week. "I... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1293487/nina-wang-and-i-were-perfect-match-says-jailed-peter-chan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1293487/nina-wang-and-i-were-perfect-match-says-jailed-peter-chan?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Prophecies, mystical numbers and holy voices have left jailed feng shui conman Peter Chan Chun-chuen "joyful" after his first two weeks behind bars - and he has already started writing a book, according to one of his visitors. Chan, who recently renounced geomancy for Christianity, was not desperate to get out; rather the man jailed for 12 years for forging the will of the late billionaire Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum believes his fate is in God's hands. But he has filed an appeal. Peter said he was... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1285743/conman-peter-chan-joyful-prison-after-holy-spirit-spoke-him?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1285743/conman-peter-chan-joyful-prison-after-holy-spirit-spoke-him?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Jailed former fung shui master Peter Chan Chun-chuen filed an appeal yesterday against his conviction and 12-year jail term for forging and using a fake will said to belong to late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum, a source familiar with the situation said. The latest move came five days after Chan, 53, previously known as Tony Chan, was sentenced by Court of First Instance judge Andrew Macrae, who described him as "shameless", "cruel", "greedy" and "a charlatan". Chan was last week found guilty of... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1279739/jailed-fung-shui-master-peter-chan-appeal-conviction?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1279739/jailed-fung-shui-master-peter-chan-appeal-conviction?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Jailed former fung shui master Peter Chan Chun-chuen has swapped the high life with Asia's richest woman for prison congee and rice. Yesterday the born-again Christian awoke in a single cell at Stanley Prison after his sentence to 12 years' imprisonment for forging the will of late Chinachem property heiress Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum to get his hands on her HK$83 billion fortune. Chan, 53, met his wife and daughter for half an hour - as he is allowed to do twice a month. Last night he was served... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1277006/forger-nina-wangs-will-begins-prison-sentence?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1277006/forger-nina-wangs-will-begins-prison-sentence?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 From bartender to fung shui master, Peter Chan Chun-chuen rose from being a nobody living in a public housing flat to a man worth more than HK$2.7 billion. A self-taught fung shui practitioner, Chan, now 53, amassed most of his fortune by pleasing late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum - as her lover, as he claims, or as her sycophantic eunuch, as Wang's siblings have claimed. Whatever the real nature of their relationship, they stayed close. Yet there was no concrete proof of their intimacy until a... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1275671/peter-chan-reinvention-nobody-big-smile?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1275671/peter-chan-reinvention-nobody-big-smile?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 04 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Looking scared and red-faced, Peter Chan Chun-chuen was locked up on Thursday after he was found guilty of forging a will purportedly left by late billionaire Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum. After almost 20 hours of deliberation, a Court of First Instance jury of five men and three women found the 53-year-old businessman, previously known as Tony Chan, guilty of forgery and using a false instrument. He will be sentenced on Friday. Chan attempted to use the forged will to claim Wang’s HK$83 billion estate... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1275442/peter-chan-guilty-forging-will-late-tycoon-nina-wang?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1275442/peter-chan-guilty-forging-will-late-tycoon-nina-wang?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 04 Jul 2013 12:09:31 +0000 An eight-member High Court jury could not reach a verdict yesterday after nine-and-a-half hours of deliberation on charges against Peter Chan Chun-chuen of forgery and using a false document. Chan is accused of forging the will of late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum. The Court of First Instance jury of five men and three women will resume their consideration when they return to the jury room at 9.30 am today. Chan has pleaded not guilty to forging the will which he used unsuccessfully to claim... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1274728/jury-still-deliberating-peter-chan-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1274728/jury-still-deliberating-peter-chan-case?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Jul 2013 11:43:24 +0000 The jury that is to decide today whether Peter Chan Chun-chuen is guilty of forging late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum's will must put aside any personal feelings, they were told by the judge yesterday. Mr Justice Andrew Macrae told the eight-member jury in the Court of First Instance that while some aspects of the evidence presented to the court might have made them feel annoyed or angry, inspired sympathy or antipathy, the jurors should not be swayed by these feelings. "This is a court of law.... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1274136/dont-let-feelings-sway-you-jury-told-nina-wang-forgery-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1274136/dont-let-feelings-sway-you-jury-told-nina-wang-forgery-case?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Describing the relationship between late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum and alleged will forger Peter Chan Chun-chuen as one related to fung shui would degrade the famed businesswoman, Chan's lawyer said yesterday. Barrister Andrew Kan also said playing in court videos which showed Wang locking lips with Chan and his hands running all over her body was not meant to degrade Wang. "In fact there is nothing degrading to Nina Wang. She was happy [in the video]. She was smiling. We see a person who... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1271295/it-was-more-fung-shui-says-defence-lawyer-nina-wang-case?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1271295/it-was-more-fung-shui-says-defence-lawyer-nina-wang-case?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Alleged will forger Peter Chan Chun-chuen was accused by the prosecution in High Court on Wednesday of playing on the superstition and loneliness of the late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum and treating her as a means to become rich. Chan - previously known as Tony Chan Chun-chuen, his name before his conversion to Christianity this year - is accused of forging a 2006 will that he claimed left him Wang's multibillion-dollar fortune. In his closing arguments, prosecutor David Perry QC also said it... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1269590/former-fung-shui-master-accused-playing-nina-wangs-superstition-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1269590/former-fung-shui-master-accused-playing-nina-wangs-superstition-and?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:41:21 +0000 An expert testifying for alleged will forger Peter Chan Chun-chuen accepted that his conclusion - that the DNA of two purported signatories of Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum's will could be on the document - would become irrelevant if the jury was convinced by contrary evidence. DNA expert Jonathan Whitaker said the jury could come to a different conclusion if there was evidence to show that the signatories had not touched the will purportedly left by Wang, who was Asia's richest woman. He told the Court... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1268120/expert-tells-low-quality-dna-profiling-nina-wangs-will?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1268120/expert-tells-low-quality-dna-profiling-nina-wangs-will?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Passionate scenes of Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum kissing fung shui master Peter Chan Chun-chuen as he ran his hands all over her body were shown in full for the first time in open court yesterday. A video, which showed them holding a kiss for about half a minute during a picnic in Sai Kung, is the first evidence of their intimate relationship. Chan had claimed that he had a loving and passionate relationship with Wang that began with a head massage and developed rapidly into greater intimacy. But it... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1263114/videos-intimate-wang-and-chan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1263114/videos-intimate-wang-and-chan?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 The late billionaire Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum and her confidant Peter Chan Chun-chuen had sex the night they reunited after three years apart, but they stopped because Wang, who had cancer, was in pain, the self-styled fung shui master claimed. Chan made the claim in a statement in 2008 during his unsuccessful probate battle for Wang's fortune. It was read out in the Court of First Instance yesterday during his trial on a charge he forged the will used in that battle. On Thursday, the court heard... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1261065/ninas-cancer-pain-ended-her-love-life-court-hears?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1261065/ninas-cancer-pain-ended-her-love-life-court-hears?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 The Justice Department is reviewing the anonymity of the alleged victim in a high-profile wounding case as lawyers say it deviates from normal practice. The man, believed to be Kung Ho, nephew of late billionaire Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum and an executive of the Chinachem Group, is described only as "Mr X" in court papers. "The case has not been sent to us for legal advice yet," a department spokeswoman said. "We will review the case and the reason for victim anonymity to consider if any follow-up... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1261054/justice-officials-review-whether-expose-mr-x?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1261054/justice-officials-review-whether-expose-mr-x?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Racy details of the sexual relationship that fung shui adviser Peter Chan Chun-chuen said he had with late billionaire Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum have emerged in open court for the first time. They came from a statement Chan made in 2008 during his unsuccessful probate battle for Wang's fortune, read out in the Court of First Instance yesterday during his trial on a charge that he forged the will used in that battle. In the statement, Chan explained how their relationship had begun in 1993 with a... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1260182/we-had-loving-passionate-sex-claims-peter-chan-nina-wang-will-trial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1260182/we-had-loving-passionate-sex-claims-peter-chan-nina-wang-will-trial?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Late billionaire Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum turned to fung shui during a legal fight with her father-in-law over the will of her missing husband, a court was told. Her younger sister, Tong Kung Yan-sum, testified yesterday in the Court of First Instance that one of Wang's fung shui advisers, "Professor Liu", had asked for the names and birth dates of her solicitors in the lawsuit against her father-in-law, Wang Din-shin. She also gave Liu the transcripts from every day of the Court of Final Appeal... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1258649/wang-used-fung-shui-legal-fight?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1258649/wang-used-fung-shui-legal-fight?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 The will presented by self-styled fung shui master Peter Chan Chun-chuen did not match the style of Asia's richest woman Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum, her younger sister said yesterday. Medical doctor Molly Gong Chung-sum, 70, told the Court of First Instance that her first impression of the 2006 will was "impossible" and "definitely not the style" of Wang. "She won't put down things in this style," Gong said. "That is not her language." She also said that Wang did not tell her she had executed a will... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1255892/will-was-not-nina-wangs-style-says-her-sister?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1255892/will-was-not-nina-wangs-style-says-her-sister?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Bodyguards have been assigned to protect the nephew of late billionaire Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum around the clock after he escaped serious injury in an attack that took place under the noses of plain-clothes police. Police arrested eight suspected members of the Wo Shing Wo triad after the attack on Kung Ho in the Tsuen Wan headquarters of the Chinachem Group. "It happened all of a sudden," Albert Hui Kwai-sang of the New Territories South crime unit said, explaining how the victim could be harmed... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1255430/8-held-over-attack-nina-wangs-nephew-chinachem-hq?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1255430/8-held-over-attack-nina-wangs-nephew-chinachem-hq?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:04:57 +0000 Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum did not weep after she became fatally ill, the late billionaire's younger sister told a court yesterday. "She never shed a tear," Dr Molly Gong Chung-sum said in the Court of First Instance. "My elder sister told me that she would not die. She told me not to worry or cry." Gong, giving evidence in the Peter Chan Chun-chuen will-forgery trial, said the cancer-stricken Chinachem chief always obeyed her medical advisers. "Doctors said she was the best patient they ever had,"... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1255032/dying-nina-wang-never-shed-tear-says-sister-will-forgery-trial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1255032/dying-nina-wang-never-shed-tear-says-sister-will-forgery-trial?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 The younger brother of late billionaire Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum gave a glimpse yesterday into her sad and secretive life as terminal cancer took hold. In an effort to avoid people seeing her, Wang would take a rarely used back staircase of her building even when she could barely walk, Dr Kung Yan-sum told the Court of First Instance, where his sister's former fung-shui adviser Peter Chan Chun-chuen stands accused of forging a will that left her fortune to him. Kung, a medical doctor, told how he... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1254281/nina-wangs-struggle-hide-cancer-revealed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1254281/nina-wangs-struggle-hide-cancer-revealed?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 A member of the jury hearing the trial of Peter Chan Chun-chuen, a self-styled fung shui master of Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum, has been discharged for health reasons. The number of jurors hearing the case is now eight, following Mr Justice Andrew Macrae's decision to allow one to be discharged yesterday, the seventh day of a trial that began on May 24. The reduced size of the jury will not affect the number of jurors' findings required to reach a verdict. With an eight-member jury, the prosecution... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1252776/juror-discharged-will-forgery-trial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1252776/juror-discharged-will-forgery-trial?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:00:00 +0000 A lawyer did not ask his secretary to bring a chop to the office of Asia's richest woman Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum when she signed a partial will in 2006, a court heard yesterday. The allegedly fake will at the centre of self-styled fung shui master Peter Chan Chun-chuen's forgery trial, however, does bear a chop for the company, reading: "Solicitor, Hong Kong SAR Ford, Kwan & Co." The will is dated October 16, 2006. The Court of First Instance heard earlier that the partial will Wang executed in... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1250788/lawyer-said-he-did-not-bring-chop-signing-nina-wang-will?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1250788/lawyer-said-he-did-not-bring-chop-signing-nina-wang-will?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 31 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 The late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum signed a partial will that bequeathed some HK$10 million to a person called Chan in 2006, a lawyer who attested the will said. Winfield Wong Wing-cheung is the third witness to be called by the prosecution in the trial of self-styled fung shui master Peter Chan Chun-chuen, who has changed his name from Tony. Chan is accused of forging a will in the name of the Chinachem tycoon, which he denies. Wong told the Court of First Instance yesterday that he had... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1249917/nina-wangs-partial-will-left-hk10m-chan-lawyer-tells-forgery-trial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1249917/nina-wangs-partial-will-left-hk10m-chan-lawyer-tells-forgery-trial?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Late tycoon Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum began issuing business instructions on paper instead of face to face after she became seriously ill, a long-time employee of hers has told the court. Joseph Leung Wing-kong, a director of Chinachem companies since 1987, told the Court of First Instance that after mid-2006, decisions were handled via paper correspondence because Wang, the head of Chinachem, was seldom in the office and was always on trips. Leung was testifying in the trial of self-described fung... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1249202/nina-wang-not-around-meetings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1249202/nina-wang-not-around-meetings?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 29 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000