洪永時 | |
Stephen Hung and Deborah Valdez Hung at amfar2016 by Lyvans B | |
Born | 1959 |
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Alma mater | Columbia University University of Southern California |
Occupation | Businessman |
Spouse(s) | Deborah Valdez Hung |
Website | www.the13.com |
Hung at first named the company Louis XIII Holdings Ltd., evoking the French king’s ornate splendor, and talked about recreating the Palace of Versailles on Macau’s Cotai Strip, featuring 200. Answer 31 of 35: News on Stephen Hung's ambitious Louis XIII Hotel and Casino that is supposed to be the most luxurious casino in the world once completed on the Cotai Strip in Macau. This past weekend saw the official groundbreaking in Macau for the Louis XIII boutique casino and hotel. Sited south of the Cotai Strip near the tony One Oasis residential complex, the Louis XIII will be so exclusive that, with the top suite going for $130,000 a night, it’s doubtful the hotel’s namesake monarch could have managed more than.
Stephen Hung (born 1959, Chinese: 洪永時) is a Hong Kong businessman.
He was the joint chairman of Hong Kong-listed The 13 Holdings Limited. He is the chairman of The Taipan Investment Group and vice-chairman of Rio Entertainment Group, which operates the Rio Hotel & Casino in Macau.
Hung was educated at Columbia University and the University of Southern California, where he earned a master's degree in business administration.[1][2][3]
Hung was co-head of investment banking for Asia at Merrill Lynch[when?]. He later formed his own investment company. Hung has also previously served as the Vice Chairman of eSun Holdings and as a non-executive director of Lippo Group's AcrossAsia Limited.
In 2013 he set about developing a luxury casino-resort in Macau, under the name Louis XIII, with the help of Princess Tania de Bourbon Parme. By 2017, the project was lavishly built and under a new name 'The 13', but was in financial difficulties, having neither opened nor been awarded a casino licence. Hung's main vehicle and the operating company for the project, 13 Holdings Limited, had targeted extremely wealthy officials and the business elite from the People's Republic of China. However, in 2014, Chinese Communist Party's general secretaryXi Jinping, in Macau for its 15th anniversary as an SAR, announced his government's displeasure at such ostentatious excess, as part of his crackdown on corruption, which severely impacted the project's ambitions. The company sold a 52 percent stake in its engineering subsidiary Paul Y Engineering.[4][5]
Hung's parents were property agents.[5]