Macau mogul’s Lui Prizes surprise

Galaxy Macau chairman Lui Che Woo gives billions of his casino and property profits to good causes. The inaugural Lui Prize for World Civilization laureates demonstrate his serious commitment to rewarding the genuinely worthy without fear or favor.

Totally globalized native New Yorker and former broadcast news producer Muhammad Cohen is a blogger for Forbes, editor at large for Inside Asian Gaming and author of Hong Kong On Air, a novel set in his adopted hometown during the 1997 handover about television news, love, betrayal, high finance, and cheap lingerie. See his bio, online archive and more at www.muhammadcohen.com; follow him on Facebook and Twitter @MuhammadCohen.

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