Li Ka-shing

** FILE ** Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, chairman of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited and Hutchison Whampoa Limited, adjusts his glasses at a news conference after the Annual General Meeting of their company in Hong Kong in this May 17, 2007, file photo. More than a decade after Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule, the former British colony is still churning out billionaires _ defying critics who thought the communist takeover would quash the territory's capitalist spirit. Li Ka-shing was again named the city's richest person by business magazine Forbes on Thursday January 17, 2008, topping a list of local entrepreneurs whose fortunes have soared due to the city's hot property sector and its links with booming China. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, FILE)

** FILE ** Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, chairman of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Limited and Hutchison Whampoa Limited, adjusts his glasses at a news conference after the Annual General Meeting of their company in Hong Kong in this May 17, 2007, file photo. More than a decade after Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule, the former British colony is still churning out billionaires _ defying critics who thought the communist takeover would quash the territory’s capitalist spirit. Li Ka-shing was again named the city’s richest person by business magazine Forbes on Thursday January 17, 2008, topping a list of local entrepreneurs whose fortunes have soared due to the city’s hot property sector and its links with booming China. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, FILE)