Old-School Tycoons Who Made Hong Kong Are Losing to China's Rich
Shirley Zhao, Bloomberg News Adrian Cheng , Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- The prediction was vintage Jack Ma, as provocative as it was prescient.âThis is the era of the internet,â the Chinese billionaire proclaimed in October 2013, just weeks after his plan to take Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. public in Hong Kong had been scuttled by regulators. âIt no longer belongs to Li Ka-shing.âMaâs dig at the famed Hong Kong tycoon raised plenty of eyebrows at the time, but few would disagree with him now. The past few years have seen...