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Hong Kong and Vietnam, the historical perspective
During the colonial era (1841-1997), Hong Kong has a track record of detaining Vietnamese. The most famous one was Ho chi Minh (胡志明, 1890-1969), the founding father of Vietnam. See attached Ho Chi Minh mugshot from Reddit.
In 1931, Ho was captured in HK. He was around 40-41 years old and was using the alias Sung Man Cho (宋文初). Ho Chi Minh spent twenty months in detention in Hong Kong (from June 6, 1931, to January 22, 1933). He was jailed in the former Victoria Prison at No. 16 Old Bailey Street, which, together with the Central Police Station Compound and the Central Magistracy, is now a declared heritage site in Hong Kong.
Read the full story:
Under
British Law: Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong (1931-33)
By:
Geoffrey Gunn
Asia
Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
June
15, 2022
https://apjjf.org/2022/12/gunn
Excerpt: Ho Chi Minh is believed to have been incarcerated in Victoria Prison’s B-Hall, constructed in 1914, and visitors today can certainly imagine the circumstances both inside the cells and in adjoining courtyards. A major attempt has been made through dioramas to capture the atmosphere. Nevertheless, Ho Chi Minh’s prison number along with cell number do not appear to have been researched against prison documents, even allowing for modifications over time to the prison halls. Although Ho Chi Minh’s former presence is boldly announced on the exterior of the red brick walls of B-Hall, he is in no sense memorialized. Inside B-Hall his name is referenced alongside Filipino nationalist, José Rizal, who made an inspection visit to the prison in 1892, inter alia describing harsh conditions. However, the names of a number of other illustrious inmates of Victoria Prison are simply not acknowledged, such as a Vietnamese prince and an Indonesian revolutionary, on whom we have much more to say. No other exhibit or piece of evidence links Ho Chi Minh with B-Hall, much less any particular cell. As explained to the author by a museum guide, the presence of a trilingual English–Chinese–Vietnamese notice in B-Hall was actually for the benefit of Vietnamese refugees arriving in the 1980s.
As announced in the Hong Kong media almost ninety years ago, the arrest in the British colony of the Vietnamese revolutionary then going by the Cantonese pseudonym Sung Man Cho（宋文初）led to one of the most important trials in local legal history. Apprehended on June 6, 1931 in a tenement in Kowloon City along with a young Vietnamese woman described in court documents as his niece, Ho Chi Minh’s subsequent incarceration along with court appearances was widely reported at the time. As the South China Morning Post of August 9, 1932 wrote, “much of the inner history of the earlier proceedings will never be known, except by the Government officials concerned.”1 Possibly so, but it is a challenge worth pursuing. While the life and times of Ho Chi Minh, including the Hong Kong episode, are standard fare for an audience in Vietnam today, much less has appeared on this subject in Western writing. Less well known, because it was not reported in the local media – and because he was long demonized in Indonesia under the generals – was the simultaneous incarceration in Victoria Prison of leading Indonesian nationalist-communist theorist and then roving Moscow agent Tan Malaka.
In fact, as Hong Kong governor of the day, Sir William Peel, reported to London at the time of Ho Chi Minh’s final exit from the colony on January 25, 1933:
I must draw your attention to the very unsatisfactory position which this case and similar one of Tan Malaka reveals. The police of this Colony have had in their hands two of the most dangerous of Moscow’s agents in the Far East but have been powerless to do anything beyond deporting them from Hong Kong to prevent them from continuing to work for subversion of European rule in the Far East.
Between 1970-1990, Hong Kong was taking in Vietnamese refugees. The following RTHK radio broadcast, explaining government policy, is part of our collective memory and has gone into Hong Kong movies. This part of Hong Kong history is well documented by the Chinese media. Search YouTube with Bắt đầu từ nay (不漏洞拉 for HongKongers) and you will find the relevant videos.
RTHK Radio Broadcast
Bắt đầu từ nay || 不漏洞拉 - Đài phát
thanh Hồng Kông năm 1988
(0:42 minute)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjWzmj81_EI
Background information and timeline of Vietnamese refugees available at:
Wikipedia
Vietnamese people in Hong Kong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_people_in_Hong_Kong
Truong My Lan（張美蘭）and Eric Chu Nap Kee（朱立基）
Nowadays, Hong Kong’s relationship with Vietnam is more commercial, or criminal, than political. A good example is Eric Chu Nap Kee （朱立基）, who is the husband of Truong My Lan（張美蘭）and owned properties in Hong Kong. After the arrest of his wife in Ho Chi Minh City, Eric Chu has sold a commercial and residential site on Hong Kong island at heavily discounted price. The Quarry Bay sale marks the first asset Chu has offloaded from a Hong Kong portfolio he has been building for more than a decade.
Full stories and analysis available at:
Vietnam-Linked Eric Chu Sells Quarry Bay Site at 36% Off Following
Wife’s Arrest
by Beatrice Laforga
MINGTIANDI
2023/02/22
Key
Points:
- A few months after the fraud arrest of his wife in Ho Chi Minh City, local businessman Eric Chu Nap-Kee（朱立基）has sold a commercial and residential site on Hong Kong island at the heavily discounted price of HK$435 million ($55.46 million), according to a market source who spoke with Mingtiandi.
- Chu, who is reported to have used funds from his wife’s business in Vietnam to fund acquisitions in Hong Kong, sold 3-9 Finnie Street in Quarry Bay for 35.8 percent less than the HK$678 million he paid for the asset in 2018, the source said on Wednesday, confirming a deal that was first reported by local news site HK01, which identified the buyer as Hong Kong developer First Group Holdings.
- Chu’s fire sale came after his wife, Truong My Lan（張美蘭）, founder and chairwoman of the controversial real estate investment firm Van Thinh Phat Group, was arrested by Vietnamese police last October on charges of fraud and illegal issuance of financial instruments.
- Entities linked to the Van Thinh Phat empire have been scrambling to offload assets in Singapore and Vietnam following Truong’s arrest, including Singapore’s Viva Land putting up for sale an office tower and a five-star hotel along the city-state’s bustling Robinson Road last month at prices below what the group had paid to acquire the properties.
The Vietnam Fraud Part II - Memo on Financial Crime
The Asian Crime Century briefing 69
Apr 21, 2024
https://asiacrimecentury.substack.com/p/the-vietnam-fraud-part-ii-memo-on
Excerpt: As Chu and Truong have been convicted of substantial fraud and corruption offences in Vietnam any proceeds of crime that have been laundered through the financial systems in Hong Kong can be subject to enforcement action under anti-money laundering legislation. Assets owned by Chu and his family and sold in Hong Kong in 2023 have been identified to include the following:
- The Nexxus Building in Central District, sold for US$819 million.
- Hotel project in King’s Road, Tin Hau, sold for around US$14.5 million.
- Commercial / residential site on Finney Street, Quarry Bay, sold for around US$55 million.
- A house on the Peak, on Hong Kong Island, sold for US$38 million.
In addition to assets already sold, Chu reportedly still has investments in Hong Kong such as The Wellington office tower in Sheung Wan, which he purchased in 2017 for US$380 million, as well as multiple luxury residences in the Peak and Mid-Levels areas reported to have a combined value exceeding US$250 million. Some assets are reported to be held in the name of other close family members.
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