Lai Chee Ying (Chinese: 黎智英; Cantonese, Jyutping: lai4 zi3 jing1; Mandarin Pinyin: Lǐ Zhìyīng, English name Jimmy Lai is the flamboyant serial entrepreneur who founded Giordano, one of Asia's largest clothing retailers and Next Media, the largest listed media company in Hong Kong and one of the world's biggest Chinese-language media groups. Wikipedia
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While in Hong Kong, Lai even took to the streets in Victoria Park in December 2002, along with tens of thousands of other protesters rallying against the government's proposed anti-subversion law. www.atimes.com/atimes/China/FK11Ad01.html
Sure, other factors helped get a half-million Hong Kongers into the streets, but there's no denying that the two publications helped. www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_30/b3843131_mz03...
The strategy is paying off. Next Media's share price has more than doubled in the past two years. www.iht.com/articles/2006/03/26/business/hkmedia27.php
But a disastrous foray last year into the e-tailing businessLai lost 140 million in six months trying to sell groceries over the Internetpulled Lai's star from the firmament and soured him on his own hometown. www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/2001/0122/jimmy.lai.html
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