Joseph Lau Luen Hung (Born in Hong Kong with family roots in Chaozhou, Guangdong) is a billionaire Hong Kong real estate investor who owns a 61% stake in Chinese Estates Holdings. His fortune is estimated by Forbes at $2.1 billionUS.^[1] In May 2007, Lau was revealed to be among the first seven purchasers of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet for private use.^[2] And on November 7, 2007, he made the top purchase of the evening at a Sotheby’s Auction by paying $39.2 million for Paul Gauguin’s Te Poipoi, a painting of a Tahitian scene.^[3]

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