"The trend will not stop here, " says Johnny Lau Yui Siu of Hong Kong-based Sinodata Consultancy.
In August of 2007, within weeks of beginning his regular trips, Siu hit a hot streak.
P. room at the Sands Macao, one of the places where Siu had made his baccarat fortune.
Night was falling, and Siu offered me a lift back to the station in his black Lexus S.U.V.
Jaclyn Siu, founder of wearhou.se, also compared her startup to Apple Inc.
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At one point, Siu himself was arrested, on suspicion of involvement in the plot to kill his friend Wong.
Like Siu and Snyder, many contestants found it relatively easy to complete the one-page summary and the business model canvas.
Siu and I sat on folding chairs beside a line of drying laundry and gazed out over the unfinished houses.
Siu was wearing a droopy yellow golf shirt, jeans, and muddy sneakers.
One question stood out to Siu, as she wrote her venture summary.
Siu and Wong testified at the trial, and they were asked to estimate how much Siu had amassed during his five-month winning streak.
Not long after the article appeared dubbing Siu the God of Gamblers, his twenty-year-old son received a series of anonymous threatening phone calls.
Once or twice a week, Siu boarded the public ferry for an hour-long trip across the rolling gray waters of the Pearl River estuary.
Siu was trying to become a small-town developer, building and selling houses among the paddy fields near his village, and Wong opened his own restaurant.
Another low-key , unlisted newcomer is Lo Siu-tong, whose Yu Tai Hing boasts a portfolio of real estate and businesses that include 100QRC in Central.
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Siu had five siblings, and his education ended in primary school.
Kathy Siu, the district councilor who has been the driving force behind the Pound Lane plan, said it would help ease automotive traffic and make life easier for the elderly.
In the predawn hours before the attack, he called his police handler, met him near the Temple Under a Big Tree, and told him about the murder plot and about Siu.
At the same time Siu attended Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) to study computer science, but after a visit to Boston he found the city more fun and more stimulating, and soon transferred to Boston University.
In the late summer of 2007, a fifty-year-old former barber named Siu Yun Ping began making regular visits from his village, in Hong Kong, to the city of Macau, the only Chinese territory where it is legal to gamble in a casino.
Primping aside, it will be interesting to see whether consumers agree with Siu and Intel chairman Craig Barrett that Nicholas Negroponte's OLPC is little more than a gadgety PDA, or whether free, robust open-source software is more appealing to the budget-conscious geek.
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