GETTING THE DAUGHTERS of an couple of Hong Kong’s business elite together for a photo shoot was a thought easier from the conception compared to the execution. But after months of e-mails and phone calls, amid the juggling of job, travel and family commitments, the date arrived in early June at one of city’s most chic cafes from the up-and-coming Western district.
Then came the last-minute schedule changes: One rushed coming from a construction site in China, then dashed off early to offer a speech; another was required to leave before schedule for an urgent meeting; along with a third was due during the office by 5 p.m., eventhough it was Friday. These aren’t ladies of leisure.
But over dessert and then champagne, amid oohs and ahs at jewelry and clothes, the girls swapped stories regarding 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 involved in the family’s hotel business while also holding around the CEO job at Poly Auction Macau) to property (Gigi Chao is vice chairman with 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 online site Guiltless, which sells secondhand luxury goods.
As is necessary among Asia’s prominent commercial clans, a web of ties connects the group: 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 it has known Yen Kuok, 26, since childhood; and Ma, 34, is friends with another of Chiu’s sisters.
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