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Angela Leong On-kei (; born 23 March 1960) is a Macau billionaire businesswoman and politician. She is a member of the
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Early life

Leong was born in
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, China with family roots in
Sanshui Sanshui District, formerly romanized as Samshui, is an urban district of the prefecture-level city of Foshan in Guangdong province, China. It had a population of 622,645 as of the 2010 census. It is known for the " Samsui women", emigrants who la ...
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Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...
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Career

In September 2017, she bought
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in London for about £250 million. As of September 2019, she had an estimated net worth of US$4.1 billion. Leong founded Macau Sanshui Communal Association to provide social services to new immigrants. With the support of her husband to reflect the casino interests in the political scene, Leong entered electoral politics in 2005 and has then served as a directly elected legislator. The mobilization of both the working class and casino employees, a key building block of the Macau middle class, is key to Leong's political career. She is the director of the Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, a casino company owned by Stanley Ho, since its founding and the managing director since December 2010, and the vice-chairman of the
Macau Jockey Club The Macau Jockey Club (MJC; , Portuguese: Jockey Clube de Macau) is an organization providing horse racing and betting entertainment in Macau, China. MJC is one of the largest private employers of Macau with around 1,400 employees and around 1,1 ...
. With her new appointment as the chairperson of
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, she has also become the
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of
PLK Vicwood KT Chong Sixth Form College Po Leung Kuk Vicwood K. T. Chong Sixth Form College (KTC) is a government-subsidised sixth form college in Yau Tsim Mong District, Kowloon, Hong Kong. It was established on 26 July 1991 to provide quality education to secondary pupils matricula ...
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Personal life

She met
Stanley Ho Stanley Ho Hung-sun (; 25 November 192126 May 2020) was a Hong Kong-Macau billionaire businessman. His original patrilineal surname was Bosman, which was later sinicized to 何 (Ho). He was the founder and chairman of SJM Holdings, which owns ...
, a Macau casino tycoon famous in the political and entertainment industries in Hong Kong and Macau, 40 years her senior, when she was a dance teacher in 1986. She became his fourth partner and had four children with him: Sabrina Ho, Arnaldo Ho, Mario Ho and Alice Ho.


Election results


See also

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List of members of the Legislative Assembly of Macau The following is a historical list of members for the current and past Legislative Assemblies of Macau: Political bloc List of Colonial members Key: DE– Directly elected members; IE– Indirectly elected members; AP– Appointed member ...


References


External links

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Angela Leong's information in Macau Legislative Council
1961 births Living people Billionaires from Guangdong Businesspeople from Guangzhou Businesspeople in the casino industry Macau billionaires Macau businesspeople Macau women in politics Members of the Legislative Assembly of Macau Politicians from Guangzhou Recipients of the Bronze Bauhinia Star {{Macau-bio-stub