RIP: Sir David Tang

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Aug 30, 2017, 6:47 pm

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obits in big papers in london, NY, LA

telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10051357/Prince-Charless-man-in-China-offers-to-help-David-Cameron-improve-relations-with-Beijing.html

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Prince Charles's man in China offers to help David Cameron improve relations with Beijing Sir David Tang, who leads the Prince of Wales’s charity in China, offers to help improve relations between David Cameron and the Communist regime...appointed by Prince Charles in 2009 to lead his new charity in China

scmp.com/article/621178/david-tang-awarded-knighthood-uk-list

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founder and chairman of the Hong Kong Cancer Fund, president of the Down Syndrome Association and patron of the Youth Arts Foundation. He also set up the privately sponsored Community English Language Lab in Taikoo Shing which offers free English tuition to all...Through his charitable work, he became friends with the late Princess Diana, who came to Hong Kong at his invitation in 1995 to speak at a fund-raising event at the China Club for the Cancer Fund.

amfar.org/amfAR-Mourns-the-Loss-of-Sir-David-Tang/

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close friend and supporter of amfAR, and was an influential force behind the success of the amfAR Gala Hong Kong benefit event series. He served as an Event Co-Chair

Aug 30, 2017, 10:12 pm

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Originally Posted by AlanA

Who?
What was he knighted for? Services to medicine? Fighting for his country?

a summary of charity works. d a cancer awareness and also a down syndrome association in HK to start, and surely he did quite a bit to bridge the UK Govt with communist china for the last 30 years.

as a rarity for the upper class he spoke up against the HK govt lately too.

oh sorry - just saw the post above.

Aug 31, 2017, 1:25 am

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Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave

Sir David Tang, a BA Premier cardholder, regular CCR user, passed away at the Royal Marsden Hospital on Tuesday. Born in Hong Kong, he read Philosophy at Cambridge and went on to found Shanghai Tang, the retailer and fashion house. Along the way he worked for Swire and Cathay (which used Shanghai Tang as nightwear supplier in First), but was also a keen customer of BA's First cabin to and from Hong Kong. He attended the party on the waterfront at Hong Kong to mark 80 years of British Airways services between London and Hong Kong, along with David Gandy, senior BA and IAG management, and a clutch of FTers.

Sir David did a regular column as Agony Uncle in the Financial Times. When he wasn't bashing the bling out of Emirates, he sometimes turned his caustic pen towards BA. This is an extract of his commentary on the IT meltdown:

Was on a flight in F from HK some years ago. Seemed very charming and the crew fawned over him. Neither ate nor touched a drop of alcohol. Have made many purchases at Shanghai Tang over the years but noticed prices skyrocketed similar to Jim Thompson.

Aug 31, 2017, 2:00 am

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I had been watching him on the China Exchange youtube videos they've been releasing for the last couple of years. Some funny, yet excruciating questioning at times. Here's just one example