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Lin Yutang (10 October 1895 – 26 March 1976) was a Chinese inventor, linguist, novelist, philosopher, and translator. One scholar commented that Lin's "particular blend of sophistication and casualness found a wide audience, and he became a major humorous and critical presence", and he made compilations and translations of the Chinese classics into English.
Cheng Yu-tung GBM (Chinese: 鄭裕彤; 8 August 1925 – 29 September 2016) was a Hong Kong billionaire with extensive property investment, development and service businesses, hotels, infrastructure, jewellery retailing and transportation interests in Hong Kong, Macau, United States, Australia and other areas.
[9] Yutong faced heavy cyber bullying about her university education (later, clarified by her teacher on weibo) & about her certain actions & words in an reality show called "Divas hit the road S6" due to this she lost so many followers on her public platforms and lost many offers related to certain brands [10] (later, on Nov 4th, she made an ...
The Cheng Yu-tung Family refers to a wealthy Hong Kong–based family best known for controlling Chow Tai Fook, via which it also owns New World Development and Rosewood Hotel Group, among other businesses.
New World Development was founded on May 29, 1970, [3] with Dr. Ho Sin Hang as chairman and Cheng Yu-tung as Director and General Manager. The group went public on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (SEHK) (SEHK: 17) in 1972.
Lin Yu-ting of Taiwan defeated Sitora Turdibekova of Uzbekistan in the 57 kg round-of-16 match by unanimous decision and advanced to the quarterfinals. Her victory follows Thursday’s win by ...
Lin's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage comprises approximately 8,100 character head entries and 110,000 word and phrase entries. [10] It includes both modern Chinese neologisms such as xǐnǎo 洗腦 "brainwash" and many Chinese loanwords from English such as yáogǔn 搖滾 "rock 'n' roll" and xīpí 嬉皮 "hippie".
Henry Cheng, son of the late Cheng Yu-tung, was ranked 49th. Some of the members of the aforementioned "new" families were also on the list, such as Peter Woo, son-in-law of the late Pao Yue-kong (6th), Michael Kadoorie (12th), the brothers Tung Chee-hwa and Chee-chen (17th) and Chan Tan Ching-fen, widow of Chan Tseng-His (35th). [23]