{"id":117254,"date":"2020-06-21T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/new-book-pays-homage-to-cheng-yu-tung-hong-kong-tycoon-who-enjoyed-helping-friends-goldsmith-apprentice-who-once-upstaged-donald-trump\/"},"modified":"2020-06-21T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T03:05:08","slug":"new-book-pays-homage-to-cheng-yu-tung-hong-kong-tycoon-who-enjoyed-helping-friends-goldsmith-apprentice-who-once-upstaged-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/new-book-pays-homage-to-cheng-yu-tung-hong-kong-tycoon-who-enjoyed-helping-friends-goldsmith-apprentice-who-once-upstaged-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"New book pays homage to Cheng Yu-tung, Hong Kong tycoon who enjoyed helping friends, goldsmith apprentice who once upstaged Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCheng 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\u2026
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
\nRead more…New book pays homage to Cheng Yu-tung, Hong Kong tycoon who enjoyed helping friends, goldsmith apprentice who once upstaged Donald Trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cheng Yu-tung left behind a US$16 billion gold and property fortune when he passed away...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-uvc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":67558,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/new-worlds-scheme-to-get-graduates-on-property-ladder-will-have-limited-impact\/","url_meta":{"origin":117254,"position":0},"title":"New World\u2019s scheme to get graduates on property ladder will have \u2018limited impact\u2019","date":"September 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r A property developer\u2019s proposed scheme aimed at giving university graduates a leg-up onto Hong Kong\u2019s housing ladder is \u201cencouraging\u201d but will not have any serious impact in the face of record-high home prices, according to some of those it is supposed to help. 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