{"id":25289,"date":"2020-05-25T23:17:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T06:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25289"},"modified":"2020-05-25T23:17:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T06:17:34","slug":"stanley-ho-dies-aged-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=25289","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Ho dies aged 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macau gambling king Stanley Ho, who built a business empire from scratch in the former Portuguese colony and became one of Asia&#8217;s richest men, died on Tuesday (May 26) at the age of 98, state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV) reported.<\/p>\n<p>The flamboyant tycoon, who loved to dance but advised his nearest and dearest to shun gambling, headed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/east-asia\/tycoon-stanley-ho-retires-macaus-king-of-gambling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">one of the world&#8217;s most lucrative gaming businesses\u00a0<\/a>through his flagship firm, SJM Holdings, valued at about US$6 billion (S$8.5 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Born in Hong Kong, Ho had four wives and 17 known children, and was forced to restructure his business after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/east-asia\/four-wives-and-17-kids-wrangle-for-control-of-stanley-hos-casino-empire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a legal battle erupted within the family<\/a>\u00a0in 2012 over his fortune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau gambling king Stanley Ho, who&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25290,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25289\/revisions\/25290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}