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Guyana-born Cheong-Leen, who rose to become ‘Hong Kong’s mayor - chairman - 01-10-2022
Hilton Cheong-Leen, who was 100 at the time of his death in the Chinese tradition of counting age, was born in Georgetown, British Guiana, in 1922, the son of a Chinese immigrant father and a third-generation Chinese mother. The family left for Hong Kong when Cheong-Leen was nine. He enrolled at the prestigious La Salle College, a Catholic school in Kowloon Tong, when it opened in 1932 and started working at a bank immediately after he graduated.