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...matter of Chinachem Charitable Foundation Ltd v. Chan Chun-chuen was heard at Hong Kong's Court of First Instance during the summer, and judgment is expected by year's end. The synopsis is this: upon the death, at 69, of billionairess Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum (a woman who wore her hair in pigtails, dressed like Lolita and answered to the nickname Little Sweetie), two conflicting wills were produced. One bequeathed her $4.2 billion estate to the Chinachem Charitable Foundation, run by her siblings. The other was flaunted by feng shui "master" Tony Chan Chun-chuen - who also claimed...
...court, Chan's professional tomfoolery (he once told a former legislator to burn nearly $2,000 a day "for luck") was thrown into sharp relief against the obscenity of his remuneration - so sharply that many Hong Kongers, including myself, were at last woken from the thrall in which feng shui had held us. Chan couldn't even produce a credible expert witness. Joseph Yu, the Ontario-based feng shui practitioner called as such, revealed that he was almost entirely self-taught, prompting Justice Johnson Lam to remark, "I think there is no need to cross-examine any further." (Watch TIME...
FlyBy did, however, manage to speak to her colleague Sewell Chan ’98, another former crimed who once penned no fewer than 422 articles for the Times in a single year. In an email, Chan, who has known Lee from high school, college, The Crimson, and the Times, wrote, “Jenny and I have been friends for more than 20 years, so her decision to leave The Times leaves me with sadness, even though I am excited about the new career opportunities she is pursuing...
...terms of what those opportunities might be, find out what Chan wrote after the jump...
...Chan also shared with FlyBy a copy of the speech he gave at the staff sendoff meeting this past Wednesday evening...