Tycoons are as synonymous with the story of modern Hong Kong as founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew is with Singapore.
Li Ka-shing, the Cheng family and others fled poverty, chaos and war in mainland China for the relative stability of the then British colony of Hong Kong.
With minimal education and capital but vast amounts of nous and ambition, they built multibillion-dollar empires that dominate the economy of the semi-autonomous Chinese territory today and stretch far beyond, from Australia to the US.
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