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Lee Shau Kee

The latest news on Hong Kong business magnate, investor, and philanthropist Lee Shau Kee, majority owner of Henderson Land Development.

Born

20 Feb 1928

Industry

Business

Job Title

Businessman

last updated:

7 October, 2024

Un.tomorrow is a new sound collective comprising local bands and musicians, debuting with a concert on March 9 and 10. Photo: Sun Yeung

Hong Kong

Hong Kong indie bands team up for 2-day event Un.tomorrow: First Assembly

Hong Kong collective Un.tomorrow, started by four local musicians, is putting on its first event, showcasing 10 indie bands from the city on March 9 and 10

23 Feb 2024 - 9:23AM

Hong Kong politics

Funding cuts, cancelled shows leave Hong Kong arts groups unsure about ‘red lines’

8 Feb 2024 - 9:02AM

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | Pianist Paul Lewis’ touch sublime in Schubert recital series in Hong Kong

29 Jan 2024 - 4:25PM

Hong Kong

Singer-songwriter JNYBeatz sets up Hong Kong’s first beatmaking school

Busy Hong Kong singer, songwriter and producer JNYBeatz talks about crossing genres and inspiring new producers in his latest project, Vision Music, Hong Kong’s first beatmaking school.

16 Jan 2024 - 1:11PMvideocam

Busy Hong Kong singer, songwriter and producer JNYBeatz (above) talks about crossing genres and inspiring new producers in his latest project, Vision Music, Hong Kong’s first beatmaking school. Photo: JNYBeatz

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Hong Kong mixed-media exhibition Make & Believe asks us to rethink reality

Make & Believe, a mixed-media exhibition at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun, blends art and technology, with moving pieces that prompt viewers to ask what is real and what imaginary.

18 Jan 2024 - 10:57AM

25 years of top-class executive MBA

‘World’s top-ranked’ EMBA marks 25th anniversary

Faculty of Kellogg School of Management and HKUST Business School hail groundbreaking partnership and innovative Kellogg-HKUST EMBA course, which topped FT EMBA rankings for 11th time in 2022.

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Classical music

Review | Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov supreme in Beethoven violin sonata cycle

Violinist Isabelle Faust and pianist Alexander Melnikov were on the same page throughout their performance of Beethoven’s 10 sonatas for violin and piano, their playing equal parts brilliant and illuminating.

6 Apr 2023 - 12:30PM

German violinist Isabelle Faust and Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov perform during their cycle of three concerts presenting Beethoven’s 10 sonatas for violin and piano in the Grand Hall of the Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre at the University of Hong Kong. Photo: HKU Muse

Hong Kong housing

Explainer | Everything you need to know about Hong Kong’s newest youth hostel

Applications are being accepted for single and double rooms at Po Leung Kuk’s 27-storey youth hostel in Yuen Long.

14 Mar 2023 - 9:32AM

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Polymath pianist Kit Armstrong on being more than a performer

Former child prodigy Kit Armstrong is having something of a midlife crisis at 30 as he looks to make a contribution to classical music beyond touring as a concert pianist.

7 Dec 2022 - 4:15PM

Fifa World Cup 2022

Opinion | Why China aren’t at Fifa World Cup – and what could boost their future chances

Two decades since China last qualified, research suggests that while some factors are not in the country’s favour, others can be changed at policy level.

7 Dec 2022 - 3:20PM

The Chinese Super League has struggled to sustain its boom of a few years ago. Photo: Xinhua

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Toilet paper shortages and other Hong Kong pandemic stories get musical spin

Composer Daniel Lo has created a multimedia concert based on poems about the pandemic from writer Ho Fuk-yan, on subjects that Hong Kong readers in particular can easily identify with.

16 Nov 2022 - 7:15PM

Customers queue to buy toilet paper in a supermarket in Hong Kong on February 14, 2020, a pandemic phenomena that led to widespread shortages in the city. Photo: AP

30 Years of Business Education

HKUST Business School in Time

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HK TECH FORUM

CityU’s 4th HK Tech Forum focuses on carbon neutrality and sustainable environment

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Performing arts in Hong Kong

Review | Multimedia opera Somnium: screens, strobe lights and strong singing

New work offers audiences an unusual sensory experience – singers’ performances are projected onto screens, while a “moon” pulses strobe lights. The performances are polished and the music accessible.

10 Oct 2022 - 4:15PM

A projection of the countertenor Terry Lee, who has the role of Duracotus, the son, in “Somnium”, a multimedia opera that had its world premiere in Hong Kong on October 8. Photo: Jesse Clockwork

Art

Witchcraft-themed Hong Kong art exhibition looks at magic in modern world

Forget cackling witches casting spells, ‘Witches Own Without (W.O.W.)’, at art space Current Plans, examines magic in our modern world as a way for us to overcome contemporary problems.

22 Sep 2022 - 4:05PM

Sway Gently, A Bayan’s Breeze (2022), by S. Yi Yao Chao. Photo: Current Plans

Performing arts in Hong Kong

Hong Kong creators on their opera based on fantasy novel about moon journey

‘I couldn’t put the book down,’ says Diana Liao of German astronomer Johannes Kepler’s 17th century fantasy written in Latin. It led her to write an opera, Somnium, with composer Steve Hui.

17 Sep 2022 - 5:15PM

Coronavirus Hong Kong

Full-day classes at Hong Kong schools only if 90 per cent get third Covid jab

Education Bureau says secondary schools must ensure 90 per cent of students are triple vaccinated if they plan to hold full-day classes on campus from November.

30 Aug 2022 - 11:11PMvideocam

Hong Kong politics

Animation pulled from Hong Kong event after directors decline to axe protest scene

Authorities asked directors of short film Losing Sight of A Longed Place to edit out one-second scene showing ‘illegal occupation’.

11 Aug 2022 - 11:18PM

The short film Losing Sight of A Longed Place was supposed to be shown on Sunday as part of a film show organised by the Ground Up Film Society. Photo: Handout

Hong Kong at 25

Opinion | Carrie Lam deserves to be remembered for more than protests and pandemic

While the focus as Lam concludes her term will no doubt be on her toughest moments, they shouldn’t define her leadership. Lam has been a champion of art, innovation and heritage conservation, and has taken on seemingly intractable issues like housing and waste management.

17 Jun 2022 - 9:52AMvideocam

HKDSE

Hong Kong university entrance exams to go ahead as scheduled

Education chief Kevin Yeung says centres will be set up at the government’s isolation facility at Penny’s Bay for exam candidates who are close contacts of Covid-19 patients or infected themselves.

6 Apr 2022 - 12:26AM

Students take their university entrance exams at Queen Elizabeth School last year. Photo: Pool

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