David Ho Ting-kwok is a Vancouver

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 based entrepreneur originally from Hong Kong

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. He founded the now defunct Harmony Airways

Harmony Airways

Harmony Airways was an airline headquartered in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, a suburb of Vancouver. It operated holiday flights from Canada to Mexico, Las Vegas, Nevada and Manchester...

, and owns the University Golf Club

University Golf Club

The University Golf Club is a public golf club located in Pacific Spirit Regional Park near the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and the University of British Columbia. It is owned by Ting Kwok David Ho.- History of the club :...

 and MCL Motors. In 2005 he was named the Businessman of the Year by the Vancouver Junior Board of Trade. Ho is a former member of the Vancouver Police Board

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. He is currently facing seven criminal charges for an incident that allegedly occurred on December 28, 2008 involving confining and assault

Assault

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ing a prostitute in his home.

Background

Ho's grandfather, Ho Ying Chie, owned the Hong Kong Tobacco Co., the eighth-largest tobacco company worldwide.
Ting Kwok David attended Woodberry Forest

Woodberry Forest School

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 prep school in Virginia, and then studied business at the University of Richmond

University of Richmond

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. Ho, and his then-wife Rita Fung, arrived in Canada

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in 1984 because she had family in the Vancouver area. The couple divorced in 1995. Ho has three children named Kristen, Cynthia and Stephen.