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On 31/05/2020 at 19:45, drol said:

Here is a quick list of very old Hong Kong/China magnates:

 

1)Henry Hu (1920): not a businessman, but a barrister and very rich. Member of the Urban and Legislative Council.

2)Li Dak-sum (1920): former non-executive director of TVB broadcasting.

3)Chao Kuang-piu (1920): HK King of Wool. One of his sons is 81.

4)Cheung Yan-lung (1922): Held many political positions. His son was a kung fu movie star who died aged 28.

5)Hilton Cheong-Leen (1922): HK unofficial mayor.

6)Harry Hon Hai Wong (1923): the Chinese "Noodle King".

7)Chiang Chen (1923): HK founder of Chen Hsong.

 

Hilton Cheong-Leen dead at 99. Presumably a unique for me in AO Deadpool.

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A fairly big name but his death went relatively unnoticed until now...

Phil Harvey (wiki), American entrepreneur and philanthropist, died on December 2, 2021, aged 83.

He set up sex shops all across the United States, and then invested much of his fortune in sex education programmes, fighting HIV/AIDS worldwide by funding contraception, and giving financial backing to civil liberty causes.

Guardian obit.

 

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1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

Sainsbury QO if needed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60003334

 

Don't think he's been picked in previous years for the DDP though.

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2 minutes ago, Death Impends said:

 

Indeed, but a first time pick this year.

DI "Another bloody obit to write up....." :lol:

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4 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

DI "Another bloody obit to write up....." :lol:

msc  *puts feet on table and reads paper sympathetically*

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20 hours ago, YoungWillz said:


FFS, that means there’s yet another vacancy in the Order of the Garter. I can’t deal with the prospect of Sir Gordon Brown.

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5 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:


FFS, that means there’s yet another vacancy in the Order of the Garter. I can’t deal with the prospect of Sir Gordon Brown.

He will surely go to the Order of the Thistle. 

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17 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

He will surely go to the Order of the Thistle. 

If that were the case then presumably it would then possibly be Sir David Cameron or Dame Theresa May  

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23 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:

He will surely go to the Order of the Thistle. 


Did Blair?

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Jeffrey Parker, CEO of MARTA, Atlanta's transportation system, commits suicide by stepping in front of a train. 

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16 hours ago, Ulitzer95 said:


Did Blair?

While Blair was born in Scotland he doesn’t identify as Scottish. Gordon Brown does. Plus the press have reported recently that he will likely go there in time. It won’t be as Controversial as Blair. 

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16 hours ago, DCI Frank Burnside said:

If that were the case then presumably it would then possibly be Sir David Cameron or Dame Theresa May  

Lady Theresa. Female members of the Order of Garter are called Lady not Dame.

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Ralph Gage, a longtime leader of The World Company and The Lawrence (KS) Journal-World, has died. The newspaper reported that Gage died Saturday of natural causes. He was 80 years old.  Gage worked for The World Company from 1969 until his retirement in 2013, although he remained on the company's board of directors. He was inducted into the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2016.

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Alberto Bailleres, a Mexican billionaire who once owned the world’s largest refined silver company, has died, according to a statement from his business conglomerate Grupo Bal SA. He was 90.

Bailleres’s vast mining fortune earned him the nickname “King of Silver” or Mexico’s “King Midas.” He had a net worth of $8.5 billion, making him Mexico’s fourth richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He also held stakes in insurance, retail and financial companies.

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