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countries in Asia and MidEast)
Star’s capitalization: $300 million
HUSKY OIL, Calgary
Husky Oil, Calgary value: $1.3 billion
CANADIAN IMPERIAL
BANK OF COMMERCE Toronto Bank’s market value $4,3 billion
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PACIFIC PLACE, Vancouver
$2 billion property development
SUNTEC CITY Singapore
$1 billion property developmnent
with partners
According to Fortune Magazine, 7/13/92, p. 106, Li Ka-shing
is worth 4 Billion Us. dollars. Another
article motes that he made HK$13.4 billion from real estate sales in 1991 alone.
Li Ka-shing has lived in the same house on a hill Hong Kong for 30 years. Li Ka-shing had little to no
formal schooling. He is self-taught. His sons have been weil educated at Stanford. Victor became an
engineer, and his other son Richard majored in computer science and is running Star TV In Hong
Kong.
Other wealthy friends of Li
Kashing get together with him regularly to play poker games.
U
Ka-shing is chairman or chief executive of his four big companies in Hong Kong. He hires both
chinese and western executives for day-to-day management.
Simon Murray, a Dalton who served in
the French Foreign Legion,
is one of Li’s trusted managers. Murray had worked for Jardine
Matheson, a business owned by one of the Committee of 300. U has built global alliances with British
companies, and has part ol Pearson, a British holding company which in turn as interest in Lazard
banking Arms In N.Y., London, and Parts. As one can see Li Ka-shing is doing business with the big
boys of International
Banking. Li also has Joint ventures with MTV, AT&T, Motorola, and Time-
Warner. Li’s Star TV broadcast 5 channels to viewers all the way from Israel to Indonesia. The
programming
comes from the BBC news, and MTV, and some minor pardners. Li is giving Madonna
and the rest of Hollywood to the Asians. Li also invested in Vancouver, B.C. He bought the Expo 86
site which Is 1/6th of downtown Vancouver. 27% of Vancouver’s
560000 citizens are of Chinese
descent. Vancouver is a Triad stronghold.
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