Over the past few years, Hong Kong’s once widely admired property magnates have come under increasing fire as symbols of the Asian financial capital’s inequalities of wealth and opportunity. Widespread “antitycoon” sentiment played a major role in the 2012 election of the territory’s current chief executive and continues to find frequent expression in the local media and in street protests like the Occupy Central rallies planned for July.
So it’s probably not the ideal time for two of Hong Kong’s richest tycoons to be going on trial for allegedly bribing a top government official.
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