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...matter of Chinachem Charitable Foundation Ltd v. Chan Chun-chuen was heard at Hong Kong's Court of First Instance during the summer, and judgment is expected by year's end. The synopsis is this: upon the death, at 69, of billionairess Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum (a woman who wore her hair in pigtails, dressed like Lolita and answered to the nickname Little Sweetie), two conflicting wills were produced. One bequeathed her $4.2 billion estate to the Chinachem Charitable Foundation, run by her siblings. The other was flaunted by feng shui "master" Tony Chan Chun-chuen - who also claimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Feng Shui Is Being Discredited in Hong Kong | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...luck") was thrown into sharp relief against the obscenity of his remuneration - so sharply that many Hong Kongers, including myself, were at last woken from the thrall in which feng shui had held us. Chan couldn't even produce a credible expert witness. Joseph Yu, the Ontario-based feng shui practitioner called as such, revealed that he was almost entirely self-taught, prompting Justice Johnson Lam to remark, "I think there is no need to cross-examine any further." (Watch TIME's video "A Cemetery's Waitlist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Feng Shui Is Being Discredited in Hong Kong | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...Staff writer Xi Yu can be reached at xyu@college.harvard.edu...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dante Scholar To Lead Harvard Center in Italy | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...Staff writer Xi Yu can be reached at xyu@college.harvard.edu...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu and Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: J-Term Rules Bar Guests, Parties | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...Staff writer Xi Yu can be reached at xyu@college.harvard.edu...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law School Student Robbed on Mass. Ave. | 12/16/2009 | See Source »

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