{"id":66,"date":"2022-02-25T14:43:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T11:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.en.leylaj.com\/?p=66"},"modified":"2025-08-19T11:32:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T08:02:18","slug":"gaming-tycoons-on-forbes-2022-rich-list-of-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/66\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming tycoons on Forbes 2022 rich list of Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hong Kong\u2019s gaming tycoons have seen their fortunes tumble over the last 12 months on the back of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to&nbsp;<em>Forbes\u2019<\/em>&nbsp;annual list of the 50 richest people in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With businessman Li Ka-shing still topping this year\u2019s list with a fortune of US$35.4 billion, Galaxy Entertainment Group Chairman Lui Che Woo was the top-placed representative of the Macau gaming industry at number 8, down three places since last year, with his fortune having declined from US$17.8 billion to US$12.8 billion, according to&nbsp;<em>Forbes<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MGM China Co-Chairperson and Managing Director&nbsp;Pansy Ho&nbsp;is next on the list at number 28, having seen her wealth fall 17% to US$3.4 billion, followed by the fourth wife of Stanley Ho,&nbsp;Angela Leong, in 33rd place with a US$2.9 billion fortune, down 12%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melco Resorts Chairman and CEO,&nbsp;Lawrence Ho, saw 37% shaved from his fortune, coming in at number 46 with US$1.3 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the other end of the scale,&nbsp;Henry Cheng&nbsp;\u2013 who still holds a 10% stake in SJM Holdings parent STDM acquired by his father, Cheng Yu-tang, in 1982 \u2013 not only retained his spot at number 3 but also saw his fortune grow by some US$4.3 billion to US$26.4 billion, mainly on the back of his Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Forbes<\/em>&nbsp;said the combined wealth of Hong Kong\u2019s 50 Richest 2022 fell slightly from US$331 billion last year to US$328 billion, impacted by the city\u2019s zero-COVID policy, However, even in this climate more than half of the list saw their fortunes grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s gaming tycoons have seen their fortunes tumble over the last 12 months on the back of the COVID-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leylaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}