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I have very great personal respect for Sir Y K my husband I have known for a number of years. therefore particularly pleased to have this opportunity to say a word about him in this foreword to Robin Hutcheon's biography of him.

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Sir Y K's entrepreneurial skills are recognised and

appreciated throughout the world. But it is with Hong Kong and the unique business ethos of the territory that his achievements are most closely associated. For Hong Kong has provided the conditions in which his extraordinary skills and energy can be applied to the full.

Sir Y K, like many others in the territory, has seen his

enterprises flourish in Hong Kong's environment of liberal capitalism. His achievements in a wide range of fields including sea, land and air transport, finance and insurance. hotels and property mirror the remarkable post war success of Hong Kong itself, as a trading, manufacturing and

financial centre.

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Sir Y K's concerns go well beyond the worlds of business

and finance. He is a generous supporter of charitable organisations and the arts in Hong Kong. And he has taken a particular interest in higher education and learning, not

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