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Henry Fok: Hong Kong
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It really wasn’t Henry Fok’s fault that he dropped out of high school - Japan invaded his country of Hong Kong. Fok got his break by smuggling firearms into China during the Korean War. He later helped finance Stanley Ho (another dropout!) to get the monopoly of Macau’s gambling license. Politically very connected, Fok was rumored to be the behind-the-scenes king maker in Hong Kong politics. Fok’s worth $3.7 billion, not at all shabby for a high school dropout.
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Henry Fok helped Tung Chee Hwa out of a near-bankruptcy of his family's Orient Overseas Container Line in the 1980s. Because of this relationship, it was often said while Tung was the Chief Executive of Hong Kong that Fok 'intervened/advised' if times, or rather Beijing, called for it.
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Dr. Fok is a Vice Chairman of the Political Consultative Committee of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). He is ... a former member of the Standing Committee and the National People’s Congress of the PRC. Dr. Fok is a former Vice Chairman of the Preparatory Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Dr. Fok is a former President of the Hong Kong Real Estate Developers Association from 1965 to 1984, as well as the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce for many years.
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On October 28, 2006, Fok died at the age of 83 at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, where he was being treated for cancer. He was diagnosed with lymphoma in 1984 and the cancer reappeared in 2004. His body was flown back to Hong Kong for a traditional funeral in accordance with his wishes. Fok is the third Hong Kong person to have his casket draped in the Chinese national flag since the handover.[3]
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Liang ... paid tribute to Hong Kong tycoon and political heavyweight Henry Fok, who died last month at the age of 83. Fok championed sports development in Hong Kong and China and, in 1984, built the mainland’s first golf course at Zhongshan Hot Spring Resort, where Liang learnt the game.
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It was after the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles that Fok donated 100 million HK dollars (12.5 million U.S. dollars) to establish the sports and physical education foundation that bears his name. In all, he contributed about 400 million HK dollars(50 million U.S. dollars) to the foundation, which has built more than 20 sports centres, gymnasiums and facilities on the Chinese mainland, in Hong Kong and Macao.
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