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This fellow is a cat with 9
Lives!
Now having joined the deal-making team at
Blackstone, he has recovered from major fall as Financial Secretary
of Hong Kong. Prior to that he had many managerial positions
including as head of Private Banking for Citibank. We've saved a few articles on this
politically savvy professional. He is the husband of
golf-medal diver from China FU MINGXIA and father of her
children.
Using his guanxi he helped to land China Investment Corp as investor
of $1 billion USD in Blackstone when the company went public. Now that this Sub Prime crises has erupted
globally, that investment is down by at least 30% now. Way to
go, Mr. Leung!
A former Hong Kong financial chief
brought
down by a major local scandal is seeking to bounce back by taking a senior
job with China's fifth-largest bank, a newspaper reported yesterday.
Antony Leung resigned from the Hong Kong government in July 2003 after
prosecutors began reviewing his purchase of a luxury car just weeks before
he raised auto registration taxes - a move that saved Mr Leung thousands of
dollars though he called it an oversight. Mr Leung, a former investment
banker, has largely stayed out of the limelight since then. But he
re-emerged last week to speak at a financial conference in Hong Kong and
recently appeared in a mainland television documentary with his wife,
Olympic gold medallist Fu Mingxia. The Hong Kong Economic Journal said Mr
Leung is in negotiations with China's Bank of Communications, which wants
him to take up a key executive position with the bank as it prepares next
year to list shares in Hong Kong and overseas.
A Hong Kong-based spokesman for the bank, Li
Siu-kei, said on Wednesday that he had no information about the bank talking
to Mr Leung. Mr Li referred AP to the company's head office in Shanghai, but
calls to a spokesman here went unanswered. -
9 Sept 2004 AP Published SINGAPORE
TIMES
Former financial secretary Antony Leung
Kam-chung and his wife, Fu Mingxia, play with their daughter on the beach. SCMP
photo
I Have No Regrets
[During Olympics 2004 in Athens]
Olympic diving star Fu Mingxia has no regrets
about marrying former financial secretary Antony Leung Kam-chung, who
stepped down after a car-tax scandal last year.
"I have never had any regrets," she said
of her new life as a wife and mother. "No matter how much glamour I
once experienced, now I have found a place to settle and I should be
satisfied."
In a television documentary shot by CCTV, the
four-time Olympic gold medallist is seen shopping in a wet market and
playing with her husband and child on a beach.
Ms Fu said she had never thought of marrying a
knowledgeable man like Mr Leung, although she preferred a mature man.
"But now I think knowledge is very important
and that I lack culture," she said. "He [Mr Leung] is also a
first-time parent. But when a person has knowledge, he has his way of
teaching kids. When he oversees the family, I can relax."
Mr Leung revealed his relationship with Ms Fu, 27
years his junior, in early 2002. They were married in July 2002 and Ms Fu
gave birth to their daughter seven months later. Mr Leung resigned after it was revealed he had
bought a luxury Lexus car to ferry around Ms Fu and their baby ahead of
announcing tax increases on new vehicles in the budget in 2003.
- 2004 August 30 SOUTH
CHINA MORNING POST
Leung's
baby revives 'right of abode' debate
Questions about special treatment for Mr Leung's wife Fu Mingxia were raised
after she gave birth in Hongkong. --
APPLE
DAILY
HONGKONG - It
was a bundle of joy for Hongkong's Financial Secretary Antony Leung and his
wife Fu Mingxia, a four-time Olympics gold medallist dubbed China's 'diving
queen'.
But the birth of their baby girl on
Wednesday raised questions about whether special privileges were being
granted to Ms Fu since many mainland spouses of Hongkong men are not allowed
to give birth in the territory.
A delighted Mr Leung announced the birth
of his daughter at the Queen Mary Hospital.
'My wife has given birth to a baby girl
and both mother and daughter are doing well,' yesterday's Apple Daily quoted
him as saying.
Mr Leung, 51, married the 26-year-old
diver from China's Hubei province in July.
But their high-profile romance has thrown
the spotlight on the issue of right of abode for mainlanders in Hongkong.
Ms Fu is not a permanent resident and is
in the territory on a two-way visitor permit.
Ms Sze Lai Shan, a director at Hongkong's
Society for Community Organisations, accused the government of adopting
double standards.
She said other Hongkong men had
complained that their mainland wives had not been allowed into the territory
if found to be pregnant.
However, China's Public Security Ministry
and Hongkong's Immigration Department have denied barring pregnant wives of
Hongkong residents from visiting the territory. - 27 Feb 2003
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese diving
queen Fu Mingxia and Hong Kong's financial tsar Antony Leung have tied the
knot in a secret ceremony in Hawaii, a Hong Kong newspaper reported on
Monday.
Citing unidentified sources, the
Chinese-language Sun newspaper said the pair registered their marriage in
the middle of July when Leung was on leave over a five-day period.
"Mr Leung has nothing to say, this
is his private matter," Leung's press secretary said when asked about
the report.
Financial Secretary Leung, 50, caused a
stir in Hong Kong and mainland China when he announced to the local media in
March that he was dating the 23-year-old three-time Olympic champion Fu.
They have since become the target of Hong
Kong's celebrity-obsessed paparazzi. -
29 July 2002
Fu plays it coy with
Hongkong paparazzi
HONGKONG - It sounds like a typical day
for a tai-tai: A shopping spree in upmarket Hongkong stores before a luxury
car chauffeurs her to a romantic candlelight dinner with her beau.
Just that the woman now watched closely
by Hongkong's media is Chinese diver Fu Mingxia, and her date is Financial
Secretary Antony Leung.
Hongkong's paparazzi has been on the
heels of Ms Fu since she arrived on Sunday night, hoping to snap the first
shot of the couple together since news of their romance broke last month.
But apparently the couple have so far
beaten them, for no such picture was run. Even claims that the diver, who
flew here to do publicity shots for a beverage company, is staying at Mr
Leung's place remain just hearsay.
But there is no escaping the media's
analysis of her every move to establish that she has made time for her beau.
Two signs are giveaways: some of the things she bought and the vehicle she
took when she went shopping at Hongkong's Tsim Sha Tsui district.
The Chinese diving star was spotted on
Tuesday having lunch with her assistant at Tsim Sha Tsui before dropping by
an upmarket store that sells golf equipment and attire, reported the Apple
Daily.
There, she bought T-shirts costing HK$700
(S$165) and hats, which reports said will come in handy when she accompanies
the financial secretary to his golf sessions.
When asked by reporters why she was in
Hongkong, she said: 'I'm here to settle some business.'
She merely smiled when reporters asked if
she has met Mr Leung.
The question was answered when
reporters saw the car that came to pick her up: it was registered under the
financial secretary's name. She was then chauffeured to a romantic
candlelight dinner with her beau, according to The Sun, another newspaper.
- 2002 April
18 The
Straits Times
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