Asia Sentinel - Giving Back

Asia Sentinel - Giving Back: "A Canadian-Chinese businessman offers a philanthropic example to Hong Kong



rhleeAs Asia’s self-proclaimed “World City,” Hong Kong has no shortage of wealthy business leaders and entrepreneurs. With several of the world’s top 100 richest people making the city their home, plus gross domestic product per capita in 2005 of US$30,549, it is well entrenched in the ranks of the developed world.


But when it comes to philanthropy and nonprofit organizations, Hong Kong has a lot of catching up to do. In the words of Canadian-born Chinese businessman, Robert Lee, “I know a lot of very rich Chinese people from Hong Kong who don’t give much, if at all in either money or time. But probably it’s because they have not been approached by the right people.”"