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	Chinadaily BBS - Free Talk - Good-bye to Mr Fok Ying Tung ( 霍英東 )
		Henry Fok Ying Tung, a well-known entrepreneur and philanthropist in Hong Kong, was one of the earliest Overseas Chinese who supported and participated in China's Reform and Opening.
		Dr Fok recognized the importance of education and its influence on personal growth; that a country's wealth was directly correlated with the strength (or weakness for that matter) of its education system.
		Fok was also a strong supporter and sponsor in a wide range of sports organizations and activities, both within and outside the country.
	bbs.chinadaily.com.cn /viewthread.php?tid=540402 (1346 words)

	Henry Fok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Fok Ying Tung (Traditional Chinese: 霍英東; pinyin: Huò Yīngdōng; 1923 - 2006) was a Hong Kong businessman.
		Henry Fok founded the Fok Ying Tung Foundation in 1984, and it is now one of the largest philanthropic organizations in Hong Kong.
		Thomas Fok - son of Fok's second wife Ana Fung and for a long time rumoured not to be the biological progeny of Fok, worked at the family firm; served 6 months in US prison in the 1990s for attempting to smuggle 15,000 AK47 assault rifles into the United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Fok (788 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Roundup: Henry Fok remembered as "remarkable man" in HK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fok was born on a sampan fishing boat in 1923.
		Fok's industriousness rose to the surface, however, and by the end of the war he had begun laying the foundation of his business empire in the early 1950s.
		Fok did not give up chasing his dreams even in the 1990s, continuing to invest millions of dollars in a high-technology business park in Nansha, deep in Guangdong province at the mouth of the Pearl River.
	english1.peopledaily.com.cn /200610/30/eng20061030_316554.html (715 words)

	HK tycoon Henry Fok dies at 83
		Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok Ying-tung died in Beijing on Saturday at the age of 83.
		A native of Panyu in South China's Guangdong Province, Fok was born to a family of fishermen in May 1923.
		Fok was forced to quit Queen's College in Causeway Bay, a top high school in Hong Kong, when the Japanese army invaded the territory in 1941.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /china/2006-10/30/content_719412.htm (456 words)

	Hong Kong people extend condolences on Henry Fok's death
		Fok was "an outstanding public figure, renowned patriot, famous businessman, and close friend of the Communist Party of China," according to an official obituary released in Beijing on Sunday.
		Fok had made notable contribution to the development of industries in Hong Kong, and he was also extensively involved in charitable and community work and the development of sports both in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland.
		Fok was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal in 1997 by the HKSAR government.
	en-1.ce.cn /National/Local/200610/30/t20061030_9195671.shtml (575 words)

	In Memoriam: Dr. Fok Ying Tung \| University of Calgary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Fok Ying Tung, one of Hong Kong’s foremost philanthropists, has given $2 million towards a new international residence at the University of Calgary for students and visiting scholars.
		Fok is one of Hong Kong’s most respected entrepreneurs and has been instrumental to China’s opening to the world since the early days of that nation’s economic reforms.
		Fok is, however, no stranger to U of C and the Calgary Chinese community.
	www.ucalgary.ca /news/october2006/flags-lowered (192 words)

	Offcial Website of the Chinese Olympic Committee
		Fok, 83, devoted much of his time, knowledge and resources to the country's sports programme.
		To support the Asian Games held in Beijing in 1990, Fok donated 100 million yuan (12.5 million U.S. dollars) for the Ying Tung Natatorium, which was the largest swimming pool in Asia at the time.
		It was after the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles that Fok donated 100 million HK dollars (12.5 million U.S. dollars) to establish the sports and physical education foundation that bears his name.
	en.olympic.cn /news/general/2006-11-01/956796.html (934 words)

	Chinese sport mourns Hong Kong tycoon Fok \| Breaking News \| Guardian Unlimited Football (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fok, whose death in Beijing at the age of 83 was reported on Sunday, made his donations through the Fok Ying-Tung Sports Fund, which has rewarded each Chinese Olympic champion since 1984 with a 1kg pure gold medal and $80,000.
		An enthusiastic soccer player and fan, Fok joined the executive board of world soccer's governing body FIFA in 1978 and was instrumental in China's return to international football in 1980.
		In 1999 Fok was awarded FIFA's Order of Merit for his "philanthropic assistance to Chinese and Asian football, and for his loyal service to world football for over 20 years".
	football.guardian.co.uk /breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-6180052,00.html (432 words)

	Henry Fok: A patriot and a patron of sport
		To support the Asian Games held in Beijing in 1990, Fok donated 100 million yuan (US$12.5 million) for the Ying Tung Natatorium, which was the largest swimming pool in Asia at the time.
		Fok sent Timothy Fok Tsun-ting to accompany He to buy a brand-new suit, he recalled during a recent interview with China Central Television.
		One of the members of the Fok Ying-tung Foundation, Kwong is also general manager of the Nansha IT Development Park, one of the foundation's investment projects.
	chinadaily.com.cn /cndy/2006-11/01/content_721350.htm (950 words)

	Who's Who (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Fok Ying-tung is one of the few corporate kingpins in Hong Kong who wept over the 1989 Tiananmen killings.
		Fok (estimated worth: $1.8 billion) is a trusted political adviser to the Chinese authorities and has access to Beijing's power-brokers.
		And Fok was there with assistance of a different kind in the mid-1980s, when he helped bail out Tung's ailing shipping company.
	www.asiaweek.com /asiaweek/magazine/99/0924/voc50people/content/henry.fok.html (213 words)

	diary-04nov06
		There is also, of course, near-unanimity that Fok donated billions to various causes, some of which relieved suffering and spread happiness among countless millions of helpless old folk, penniless widows, starving orphans and small, defenceless furry animals.
		Fok saw Leung as the heir to the throne.
		Tung could have gone down as a genius had he announced that the whole property pyramid scheme was over, the land supply would be opened up, and housing in post-British Hong Kong would be treated as a basic commodity like any other.
	www.geocities.com /hkhemlock/dog/diary-04nov06.html (2304 words)

	Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok dies at 83 - Middle East Business news related to travel, food, hotel, real estate, health, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok Ying-tung, whose business and political influence and close ties to Beijing earned him the nickname 'the Godfather', has died in the Chinese capital aged 83, China reported.
		Fok's power-broking credentials were underlined before Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule in 1997, when he was reported to have introduced Tung to then Chinese President Jiang Zemin, paving the way for the low-key shipping magnate to become the territory's first leader under Chinese rule.
		Fok's journey into Beijing's political inner sanctum began half a century ago during the Korean War, when he defied a UN embargo to smuggle vital medical supplies, including penicillin, into mainland China.
	www.tradearabia.com /tanews/newsdetails_snINTBIZ_article113458_cnt.html (523 words)

	Scotsman.com Business - Latest News - Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok dies at 83 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fok died on 28 October,2006 at the age of 83, local media reported.
		Fok was the Vice-Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference of People's Republic of China, President of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong and the President of the Hong Kong Football Association.
		He was also the founder of the Fok Ying Tung Foundation in 1984, which is now one of Hong Kong's largest philanthropic organisations.
	business.scotsman.com /latest.cfm?id=1600632006 (773 words)

	Henry Fok: ZoomInfo Business People Information
		Henry Ying Tung Fok, male, of Han Nationality, born in May 1923 in Panyu, Guangdong Province; with no party affiliation.
		Fok, who is the vice-chairman of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, had previously donated HK$200 million to the university in 1998 and a further HK$33 million in 2003.
		Fok said the best way in which the university could reward the public would be to lift the quality of scientific research and promote exchanges between the scientific personnel of Hong Kong and the mainland.
	www.zoominfo.com /people/fok_henry_9170915.aspx (439 words)

	Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok dies at 83
		Fok died on October 28, 2006, at the age of 83.
		Despite the trappings of power and wealth, the younger Fok could often be found playing street football with the territory's top players on downtown concrete pitches.
		Fok was active in charitable work through the Fok Ying Tung foundation which he founded in 1984.
	www.chinanews.cn /news/2005/2006-10-29/29379.html (360 words)

	Macao CE Mourns Death of CPPCC Leader Henry Fok
		Fok was a successful entrepreneur and a patriotic charitarian as well," Ho said.
		Fok had long worked with singular devotion on the sectors of education, health, sports, science, art, culture and the social welfare, Ho said.
		Fok established the Fok Ying Tung Foundation in Macao in 2002 to support the development of education, medicine, sports and culture in Macao and on the Chinese mainland.
	en.chinabroadcast.cn /2946/2006/10/30/266@156612.htm (310 words)

	CPPCC leader Henry Fok dies at 84
		BEIJING -- Henry Fok Ying-tung, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), passed away in Beijing on Saturday.
		Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok, left, stands beside Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang during a flag raising ceremony in Hong Kong in this July 1, 2005.
		Fok was an outstanding public figure, renowned patriot, famous businessman, and close friend of the Communist Party of China, an official obituary said.
	www.chinadaily.cn /china/2006-10/29/content_719314.htm (160 words)

	Henry Fok Remembered as "Remarkable Man" in HK
		By then, his father had died in a boating wreck, leaving the young Fok to juggle small-time laboring jobs while helping to run the family's small boat business.
		In 1954, Fok set up a construction and real estate company that heralded the practice of soliciting buyers for property even before the flats had been built, simultaneously revolutionizing and riding the wave of the decade's housing boom in
		Fok did not give up chasing his dreams even in the 1990s, continuing to invest millions of dollars in a high-technology business park in Nansha, deep in
	en.chinabroadcast.cn /2946/2006/10/30/272@156886.htm (747 words)

	AsiaMedia :: CHINA: Ching Cheong's wife first sought Fok's help
		Henry Fok Ying-tung was the first person Ching Cheong's wife, Mary Lau Man-yee, approached for help when the veteran journalist got into trouble on the mainland, she said.
		She also said the family had been notified by the court that the case had been delayed until the end of this month, and that she expected a judgment at any time.
		Expressing her gratitude to Fok, who died at the age of 83 on Saturday after a long battle with cancer, Lau said she sought help from the tycoon when Ching first got into trouble on May 11.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=56936 (465 words)

	HK Tycoon Henry Fok Dies at 83 -- china.org.cn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He made a significant contribution to the nation's sporting development and had participated in the drafting of the Hong Kong Basic Law.
		Fok, a native of Panyu in South China's
		To make ends meet Fok worked as a laborer at the airport and shoveled coal onto ferries.
	china.org.cn /english/news/186638.htm (361 words)

	Henry Fok remembered as "remarkable man" in HK_taiwan_hk_English_SINA.com
		All newspapers in Hong Kong continued to look back to Henry Fok's rags-to-riches legend on Monday, two days after Fok, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the country's top advisory body, passed away in Beijing on Saturday night.
		In 1980, Fok became a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, China's top advisory body.
		A few years later, Fok helped open the country's first five-star hotel -- the White Swan Hotel -- in Guangzhou, capital of southern China's Guangdong Province.
	english.sina.com /taiwan_hk/1/2006/1029/93172.html (753 words)

	Hong Kong Press Releases
		A name list of a 74-member funeral committee for Henry Fok Ying-tung was published Wednesday with Wang Zhongyu, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference...
		Tung Chee-hwa, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former Hong Kong chief executive, received Hong Kong's highest honor - Grand Bauhinia Medal...
		As tributes continued to pour in for Henry Fok Ying-tung Monday, more than a few political analysts were left wondering whether the death of one of Hong Kong's most influential voices in the mainland will leave...
	www.topix.net /world/hong-kong/pr (1665 words)

	BusinessAndMoney: Business News: Hong Kong's 'Godfather' Dies At 83
		Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok (L) with Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang in 2005.
		Prominent Hong Kong business tycoon Henry Fok Ying-tung, whose close ties with Beijing earned him the nickname 'Godfather', has died in the Chinese capital aged 83, an official Chinese newspaper reported.
		Fok, a vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, died at Peking Union Medical College Hospital on Saturday evening, the Post said.
	www.xtramsn.com /businessandmoney/0,,13273-6494803,00.html (161 words)

	VTC - Fok Ying Tung Hall of Residence
		Located near IVE (Tsing Yi), the Fok Ying Tung Hall of Residence is built for the purpose of providing comfortable accommodation and ancillary facilities for visiting scholars and supporting services for local residential training programmes to promote academic exchange and training.
		The Hall is named after the prominent businessman, Dr. Henry Fok Ying-Tung, for his generous donation that funded the construction.
		For reservation or more information about the hall facilities, please visit the Fok Ying Tung Hall of Residence website.
	www.vtc.edu.hk /vtc/web/template/text.jsp?fldr_id=1040 (114 words)

	HK tycoon Henry Fok: patriot and patron of sport (photos attached) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HK tycoon Henry Fok: patriot and patron of sport (photos attached)
		People carry the body of Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok, 83, to Beijing International Airport on Tuesday, Oct.31, 2006.
		Fok, a vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), died at Peking Union Medical College Hospital on Oct. 28.
	en.beijing2008.com /64/24/article212052464.shtml (1046 words)

	Glossary, F (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Owner of a boat fleet (nice ones, with a big VIP lounge at the rear, in which, if you are lucky, you get to have a chat with the lads from the Liaison Office of the PRC in HK) linking HK to Nansha.
		Father to a nosy son, Timothy Fok Tsun-ting.
		1 March, 1993 — Nansha 'the next Discovery Bay' — In the far-sighted eyes of tycoon Henry Fok Ying-tung, Nansha new town in Panyu is a potential alternative to Discovery Bay for people who work in the territory.
	www.paris-hongkong.com /articles/20001130glossary/f.html (492 words)

	Fok Ying Tung Foundation donates HK$800m to HKUST_taiwan_hk_English_SINA.com
		HONG KONG, July 26 (Xinhuanet) -- The Fok Ying Tung Foundation Tuesday donated 800 million Hong Kong dollars (102.56 million US dollars) to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) to support the university's development.
		Ian Fok Chun Wan, vice chairman of the Foundation, presented a check to the University at a donation ceremony held on campus Tuesday.
		I hope that the partnership and vision shared by HKUST and the Fok Ying Tung Foundation will encourage more philanthropists and community leaders to participate in the University's strategic development."
	english.sina.com /taiwan_hk/1/2005/0727/39341.html (389 words)

	China mourns philanthropist Fok - CNN.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- Chinese sport on Monday mourned Henry Fok Ying-Tung, the Hong Kong tycoon who donated millions of dollars to sporting projects and athletes on the mainland.
		When China won the right to host the 2008 Olympics in 2001, Henry Fok donated 200 million yuan ($25.40 million) towards the cost of building the showpiece "Water Cube" acquatics centre in Beijing.
		IOC member Timothy Fok, right, helps launch the 15th Asian Games Doha 2006 Torch Relay last week.
	edition.cnn.com /2006/SPORT/10/30/china.fok.reut/index.html (512 words)

	Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok dies at 83 - MSNBC Wire Services - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok dies at 83 - MSNBC Wire Services - MSNBC.com
		Hong Kong tycoon Henry Fok dies at 83
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	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/15463030 (612 words)

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