- He held a four-decade monopoly on casinos in Macau until it opened to foreign companies in 2002. He was the wealthiest person in the former Portuguese colony.
- He was born into one of Hong Kong's wealthiest and most powerful families. When he was 13, his father abandoned the family after being wiped out during the Great Depression. Ho attended Hong Kong University but didn't graduate because of WWII. Since he was fluent in English and Chinese, he was a telephone operator for British forces until Hong Kong fell to Japan. He boarded a boat for neutral Macau, joining refugees from mainland China. During the war, he ran nighttime smuggling and trading trips up the Pearl River Delta.
- Hong Kong tycoon, head of SJM Holdings he is the father of Josie Ho.
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