Personalities, top officials gather for Stanley Ho funeral
Former Macau Chief Executive Edmund Ho Hau-wah (center) attends the late Macau tycoon Stanley Ho’s funeral memorial in Hong Kong
Macau’s Secretary for Economy and Finance Lei Wai Nong and former Chief Executive Edmund Ho were among the Macau delegation attending the vigil for casino legend Stanley Ho, held yesterday at the North Point Funeral Home in Hong Kong.
A funeral service will be held there today, with reportedly over 100 high-profile personalities attending, before he is buried in Hong Kong’s Mount Davies Cemetery at a later date.
Stanley Ho died on May 26, aged 98.
The iconic casino billionaire built Macau into the world’s biggest gambling hub after winning a monopoly license in 1961. His SJM Holdings Ltd. flourished as China’s economic opening created a flood of new wealth in a country with a passion for gambling.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and former leader Tung Chee-hwa were also understood to be in attendance at yesterday’s vigil, as was the deputy director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong, Tan Tieniu.
An official funeral committee for today’s events includes more than 90 members, including many notable personalities from both sides of the Pearl River estuary, such as Ambrose So, vice-chairman and chief executive of SJM Holdings, and Li Ka-shing, the founder of CK Hutchison Holdings.
Macau Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng, Carrie Lam, Director of the Hong Kong Liaison Office Luo Huining, Director of the Macau Liaison Office Fu Ziying, and former Macau Chief Executive Chui Sai On are directors of the funeral committee. DB
Pansy Ho, center, daughter of the late Macau tycoon Stanley Ho arrives for his funeral memorial in Hong Kong, Thursday (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Employees of the late Macau tycoon Stanley Ho’s company arrive for his funeral memorial in Hong Kong, Thursday (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Family members of the late Macau tycoon Stanley Ho arrive for his funeral memorial in Hong Kong, Thursday (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A guest holds a copy of a memorial book of the late Macao tycoon Stanley Ho (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A TV screen shows a picture of the late Macau tycoon Stanley Ho with his family at the funeral memorial in Hong Kong, Thursday (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A TV screen shows a picture of the late tycoon (third left) standing in front of the British and Chinese flag (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Hong Kong property tycoon Cecil Chao and his daughter Gigi Chao (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Hong Kong billionaire tycoon Lui Che-woo (center) (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Hong Kong actress Liza Wang Ming-chuen attends the late Macao tycoon Stanley Ho’s funeral memorial in Hong Kong, Thursday (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Former Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang and his wife Selina (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Former Chinese Olympic diving champion Guo Jingjing (center) and her husband Kenneth Fok Kai-kong (right) (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A portrait of the late Macay tycoon Stanley Ho is displayed on a live feed TV monitor in a media room during the funeral memorial in Hong Kong, Friday
A TV screen shows a live feed broadcast of the funeral in Hong Kong, Friday (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Lawrence Ho, son of the late Macao tycoon Stanley Ho (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Former Hong Kong Chief Executives Tung Chee-hwa (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Josie Ho, daughter of the late Stanley Ho (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Angela Leung On-kei (right) wife of the late Macau tycoon Stanley Ho (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
A TV screen shows a live feed broadcast of former Hong Kong Chief Executives Tung Chee-hwa speaking at the funeral in a media room in Hong Kong, Friday (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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