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Li Ka-shing

  • Friday, 28 February, 2025
    News in-depth
    Hong Kong’s ‘superman’ billionaire and the battle over the Panama Canal

    The company founded by 96-year-old Li Ka-shing is caught up in Donald Trump’s complaints about China’s influence

    A photo composite of Donald Trump and Li Ka-shing with a container ship in between
  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2024
    UK energy
    Hong Kong investor buys UK wind farms for £350mn

    Consortium leader CK Infrastructure, controlled by Li Ka-shing’s family, also announces secondary listing in London

    Wind turbines on a flat, treeless Scottish upland
  • Tuesday, 6 September, 2022
    InterviewNikkei Asia
    Fund backed by Li Ka-shing bolsters south-east Asia deals

    Horizons Ventures’ co-founder Solina Chau says billionaire’s private investment arm to target ‘women-centric’ start-ups in Japan

    Horizons Ventures logo reflected in a glass mirror
  • Sunday, 25 October, 2020
    Oil & Gas industry
    Cenovus snares Li Ka-shing’s Husky Energy in $7.8bn deal

    Consolidation in North America’s battered oil and gas sector is gathering speed

  • Tuesday, 30 June, 2020
    Zoom investment shines light on woman behind Li Ka-shing’s tech bets

    Solina Chau is unsung force helping to secure deals on behalf of Hong Kong’s ‘superman’

    Solina Chau is tycoon Li Ka-shing’s long-term companion and head of Horizons Ventures, a group that invests his money
  • Wednesday, 13 May, 2020
    US foreign policy
    US pressure over China prompts Israeli review of $1.5bn tender

    Additional checks on bidding for desalination plant comes ahead of Pompeo visit

  • Sunday, 5 April, 2020
    Retail sector
    Owner of Dutch mall takes on might of Li Ka-shing chain

    Local businessman launches case against world’s biggest health and beauty retailer over €9,000 rent bill

  • Saturday, 18 January, 2020
    News in-depthHong Kong politics
    Hong Kong’s tycoons come under scrutiny amid protests

    The fortunes of a handful of rich families highlight yawning equality gap in city 

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2019
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Vegan dairy group Perfect Day valued at $440m in funding round

    Group raised $140m in round led by Singapore’s Temasek

  • Friday, 27 September, 2019
    News in-depthHong Kong politics
    Hong Kong’s ‘Superman’ Li Ka-shing comes under fire

    Tycoon is targeted by Beijing amid pro-democracy protests but is a step ahead of his peers

    Hong Kong's richest man Li Ka-shing, 88, listens to a question during a press conference in Hong Kong on March 22, 2017, after his flagship CK Hutchison Holdings posted a net profit of 4.25 billion USD for 2016, six percent up year-on-year. Li said on March 22 he would vote for the candidate who is willing to cooperate with Chinese authorities in the city's upcoming leadership vote. / AFP PHOTO / ANTHONY WALLACE (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images)
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2019
    Li family retreats to the pub in search for recession-proof assets

    Greene King the latest in £30bn UK deals by Hong Kong’s richest man

    epa06607718 The chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. and Cheung Kong Property Holdings Ltd., billionaire Li Ka-shing (C), smiles and waves as he leaves a press conference in Hong Kong, China, 16 March 2018. Li, nicknamed 'Superman' for his business acumen, announced his retirement from his business empire. EPA/JEROME FAVRE
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2019
    LombardMatthew Vincent
    Has Li Ka-shing chosen the right pub with £4.6bn Greene King deal?

    Analysts suggest other groups in sector offer real estate backing and better value

    FILE PHOTO: A pint of beer stands on a bar in a pub in Liverpool, northern England Nov.19 , 2014. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo
  • Monday, 19 August, 2019
    Food & Beverage
    Hong Kong billionaire to buy UK pub group Greene King

    Victor Li’s CK Asset Holdings seizes on weak pound in £4.6bn deal for beer company

    Undated handout file photo issued by Green King of a pint of beer on a bar in front of three beer taps. The UK pub group and brewer Greene King has agreed a ??2.7 billion sale to Hong Kong real estate giant CKA, the company has announced. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Monday August 19, 2019. See PA story CITY GreeneKing. Photo credit should read: Greene King/PA Wire
									
									NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
  • Monday, 19 August, 2019
    LexGreene King PLC
    Greene King/CK Asset: not pint sized Premium content

    Frothy offer is more about infrastructure than beer

    Greene King pubs have considerable real estate value
  • Friday, 16 August, 2019
    Hong Kong politics
    Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka-shing weighs in on protests

    Tycoon sets city abuzz with cryptic ads that steer line between demonstrators and Beijing

    epa06607718 The chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. and Cheung Kong Property Holdings Ltd., billionaire Li Ka-shing (C), smiles and waves as he leaves a press conference in Hong Kong, China, 16 March 2018. Li, nicknamed 'Superman' for his business acumen, announced his retirement from his business empire. EPA/JEROME FAVRE
  • Friday, 16 August, 2019
    Hong Kong economy
    Hong Kong unrest torches fortunes of city’s billionaires

    Market sell-off following street protests wipes $15bn from top tycoons’ net worth

    FILE - In this July 7, 2019, file photo, protesters march near the skyline of Hong Kong. China’s central government has dismissed Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters as clowns and criminals while bemoaning growing violence surrounding the monthslong demonstrations.(AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2019
    CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd
    CK Hutchison chair defends Hong Kong company’s expansion abroad

    Asian infrastructure group reports 11 per cent rise in full-year profit

  • Thursday, 14 February, 2019
    Hong Kong
    Half of Hong Kong’s tycoons saw their wealth fall over the past year

    Li Ka-shing’s fortune fell by $4bn according to the Forbes Rich List

  • Monday, 5 November, 2018
    Capital & Counties Properties PLC
    Hong Kong’s CK Asset Holdings in talks to buy Earl’s Court stake

    UK property company Capital & Counties considering sale instead of break-up

    J9MYT3 Site of the former Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London.
  • Thursday, 23 August, 2018
    The Big ReadHudson Lockett
    How the Hong Kong Jockey Club exaggerates its charity

    Group has a gambling monopoly thanks to its donations to good causes — but FT data show it overstates its largesse

  • Tuesday, 3 July, 2018
    European companies
    CK Hutchison to take over Italy’s Wind Tre for €2.45bn

    HK group to buy 50% of telco it does not already own from Amsterdam’s Veon

    A businessman uses a smartphone as he walks past a Wind SpA store, a unit of VimpelCom Ltd., in Rome, Italy, on Wednesday, April 2, 2014. Vodafone Group Plc would be helped by adding a fixed-line business to its mobile network in Italy, allowing it to bundle services in a country whose major Internet providers are Telecom Italia SpA, VimpelCom's Wind unit and Swisscom AG's Fastweb SpA unit. Photographer Alessia Pierdomenico/Bloomberg
  • Thursday, 14 June, 2018
    Property sector
    UBS London headquarters sold for £1bn

    Property company founded by tycoon Li Ka-shing strikes latest big London real estate deal

  • Wednesday, 13 June, 2018
    Energy sector
    Hong Kong’s CKI bids A$13bn for Australian gas pipeline group

    Offer sets up first test of country’s new review process for key infrastructure deals

    Victor Li, chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. and CK Asset Holdings Ltd., adjusts his glasses during a news conference following the official opening of the CKC18 store, operated by A.S. Watson Group, in Hong Kong, China, on Thursday, May 31, 2018. Li took over as chairman of CK Hutchison and CK Asset from his father Li Ka-shing on May 10. Photographer: Justin Chin/Bloomberg
  • Thursday, 10 May, 2018
    The Big ReadBen Bland
    Hong Kong’s tycoons: handing over power in troubled times

    A new generation faces waning influence in Beijing and rising anger over inequality 

  • Monday, 19 March, 2018
    Property sector
    CK Hutchison, CK Assets fall after Li Ka-shing to retire
    epa06607718 The chairman of CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. and Cheung Kong Property Holdings Ltd., billionaire Li Ka-shing (C), smiles and waves as he leaves a press conference in Hong Kong, China, 16 March 2018. Li, nicknamed 'Superman' for his business acumen, announced his retirement from his business empire.  EPA/JEROME FAVRE
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