Obtaining the DAUGHTERS of a handful of Hong Kong’s business elite together for any photo shoot was an idea easier from the conception when compared to the execution. But after months of e-mails and speak to calls, amid the juggling of job, travel and family commitments, the date arrived at early June at among city’s most chic cafes from the up-and-coming Western district.
Then came the last-minute schedule changes: One rushed from your construction site in China, then dashed off early to offer a delivery; another needed to leave ahead of schedule for a sudden meeting; along with a third was due back in the office by 5 p.m., even though it was Friday. These bankruptcies are not ladies of leisure.
But over dessert and later champagne, amid oohs and ahs at jewelry and clothes, women swapped stories about their lives and work, which run from services (Winnie Chiu heads Dorsett Hospitality, a part of father David Chiu’s China Consortium International; Sabrina ho, daughter of casino magnate Stanley Ho, is active in the family’s hotel business while holding around the CEO job at Poly Auction Macau) to property (Gigi Chao is vice chairman in the family’s Cheuk Nang Holdings) and from shipping (Sabrina Chao chairs family-owned Wah Kwong Maritime Transport) to tippling (Lili Ma, daughter of Ping Protection Chairman and CEO Peter Ma, is director of Mayfair Fine Wines). Yen Kuok, youngest offspring of Malaysian-Chinese tycoon Robert Kuok, has website Guiltless, which sells secondhand luxury goods.
Out of the box often necessity among Asia’s prominent commercial clans, an internet of ties connects the audience: Chiu, 36, and Sabrina Chao, 42, are sisters-in-law; Gigi Chao, 37, and Sabrina Chao are cousins; Sabrina Ho Chiu Yeng, 25, is besties with Chiu’s youngest sister and has known Yen Kuok, 26, since childhood; and Ma, 34, is friends with another of Chiu’s sisters.
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