Sir David Tang, KBE (Chinese name:

Chinese language

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 鄧永鏘) (Cantonese pinyin: Tang Wing Cheung; Mandarin pinyin: Dèng Yǒngqiāng) (born 2 August 1954) is a Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

 businessman and socialite best known as the founder of the Shanghai Tang

Shanghai Tang

Shanghai Tang is an international clothing chain company, founded in 1994 by Hong Kong businessman David Tang Wing Cheung and now controlled by Richemont.David Tang claimed that Shanghai Tang is a Chinese label that set out to rejuvenate Chinese fashion...

 fashion chain, which he sold in 2006 to Richemont

Richemont

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Tang's grandfather "founded the Kowloon bus company and became one of Hong Kong’s greatest philanthropists". Tang was sent to The Perse School

The Perse School

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, Cambridge

Cambridge

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, aged 13, allegedly not speaking a word of English.

Tang is the founder of the China Clubs (Hong Kong, Peking, and Singapore

Singapore

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), the Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

 Tang stores, Havana House and Pacific Cigar Company Ltd (the exclusive distributor for all Cuban cigars in Asia Pacific). More recently Tang opened the Cipriani

Cipriani

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 in Hong Kong and the China Tang restaurant at the Dorchester Hotel

Dorchester Hotel

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. Tang is also a director and advisor to a number of boards, including Tommy Hilfiger

Tommy Hilfiger

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Tang was invited to provide a weekly English column for the Chinese-language Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily

Apple Daily

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. A selection of his articles has been published in a book An Apple a Week (published July, 2006). He also contributes an "agony uncle" column to the weekend Financial Times

Financial Times

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, in which he solves readers' social dilemmas in a frequently satirical manner.

Tang was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours

New Year Honours 2008

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He is the Honorary Consul of Cuba

Cuba

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in Hong Kong.