Cheng Yu-tung left behind a US$16 billion gold and property fortune when he passed away in September 2016, spending the last four of his 91 years bedridden after a brain haemorrhage.Much has been written about the boy who fled his mainland Chinese hometown in Guangdong province to Macau ahead of the advancing Japanese army in the 1940s, or the tycoon who once bested his business partner Donald Trump in a US property deal.Yet, little is known about the personal traits of the man who built the…
Source : South China Morning Post
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