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Shun Tak Holdings

Shun Tak Holdings is the property, transport, hospitality and investment arm of gambling mogul Stanley Ho Hung-sun, who controlled the company until late 2010 when it was restructured. The company’s shipping division, operates ferry services between Hong Kong and Macau.

Chairman / President

Pansy Ho

CEO / Managing Director

Pansy Ho

CFO / Finance Director

Daisy Ho

Industry

Conglomerate

Website

shuntakgroup.com

Headquarters address

Penthouse 39th Floor, West Tower, Shun Tak Centre, 200 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong

Stock Code

SEHK:0242

Year founded

1972

Maisy Ho (right) and her sister, Pansy Ho, attend a ceremony at Government House in 2016, where Maisy received the Bronze Bauhinia Star. Photo: Edward Wong

Hong Kong society

Maisy Ho remembered as dedicated philanthropist and community servant

Hong Kong Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau praises her ‘profound dedication to community service’ and for caring for underprivileged.

14 Apr 2026 - 12:49AM

Hong Kong society

Maisy Ho, daughter of late tycoon Stanley Ho, dies ‘surrounded by family’

12 Apr 2026 - 10:54PM

Hong Kong politics

Explainer | Why is top Beijing official Xia Baolong in Hong Kong for a 5-day visit?

19 Jun 2025 - 4:54PM

Hong Kong stock market

In Hong Kong, four firms get US$2.6 billion support to stem stocks rout

WuXi Biologics and Meituan are among four companies getting a US$2.6 billion stock-buying support following a punishing two weeks as the Hang Seng Index slides to a 13-month low.

20 Mar 2024 - 10:43AMvideocam

A screen in the Hong Kong stock exchange’s Connect Hall showing the Hang Seng Index level on December 6, 2023. Photo: Mia Castagnone

Hong Kong property

Chinese property tycoon seeks US$212.7 million for 5 Hong Kong luxury homes

CIFI chairman Lin Zhong and his brothers are asking HK$1.66 billion (US$212.7 million) for five houses in Stanley, 7.88 per cent less than the purchase price. Each 3-storey unit comes with a garden and swimming pool.

4 Aug 2023 - 6:00AM

Greater Bay Area

Shun Tak expects ‘modest recovery’ in tourism after slumping to US$71m loss

The Covid-19 pandemic posed significant challenges to the company’s property, transport and hospitality businesses, Pansy Ho says. The group plans to embark on new ventures later this year.

25 Mar 2023 - 4:27AMvideocam

Macau

Video | Macau rethinks its casino hub role in post-Covid era

20 Mar 2024 - 10:38AM

‘What else have we got?”: Macau questions role as casino hub after painful Covid downturn

06:31

Hong Kong reopens

Mainland China entrepreneurs visit Hong Kong, families reunite as border reopens

‘I’m too excited to say a word. I can finally go home after two years of not seeing the folks,’ says one traveller returning to Guangdong for the Lunar New Year holiday.

8 Jan 2023 - 5:40PM

Macau

Macau’s casino operators reveal plans for new attractions outside gaming

Macau’s six casino operators are expected to pump US$14.7 billion into the local economy with non-gaming projects required for new gambling licenses.

20 Mar 2024 - 10:40AMvideocam

Macau

Macau picks incumbents as Genting tycoon fails in casino bid

The announcement wraps up a jostling for rights to operate gambling halls in the world’s largest betting hub, where Macau remains the only place on Chinese soil where casinos are legal.

20 Mar 2024 - 10:33AMvideocam

A view of blackjack tables and gamblers inside The Venetian Casino in Macau on December 9, 2016. Photo: Shutterstock

Hong Kong property

CR Land to build flats with Hong Kong’s top developers in GBA

The state-backed real estate giant’s announcement comes as President Xi Jinping underscores the critical role of Hong Kong during the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th national congress in Beijing.

21 Oct 2022 - 8:30AMvideocam

State-back real estate giant China Resources Land has teamed up with four of the city’s largest property developers for projects in the Greater Bay Area. Photo: Handout

Macau

7 companies vie for Macau’s 6 casino licences in beauty parade

The beauty parade was the culmination of years of work by Macau’s government to reform betting in the world’s gambling capital, as it continues to navigate a fine balance between a fiscal reliance on casino taxes, and Beijing’s push to diversify the city’s economy from betting.

20 Mar 2024 - 10:34AMvideocam

Hong Kong property

Covid-19 curbs: Hong Kong developers’ earnings tumble by up to 60 per cent

Covid-19 restrictions dragged on the profits of Hong Kong developers in the January to June period, with declines ranging from 40.5 per cent to 58 per cent, filings with the Hong Kong stock exchange on Thursday show.

25 Aug 2022 - 8:55PMvideocam

Macau

Macau’s casinos get in regulators’ cross hairs, wiping out stock values

The consultation, released a day after the city’s second Five Year Development Plan, is likely to translate into a new gambling law, most likely coming into effect before Macau’s six casino concessions expire in June 2022.

20 Mar 2024 - 10:35AM

The main gambling hall at the Grand Lisboa casino in Macau on 20 February 2020. Photo: Handout

International Property

Shun Tak debuts in Singapore with a US$26 million penthouse sale

The push into Singapore stands in stark contrast with Shun Tak’s footprint in Hong Kong, the birthplace and childhood home of the late casino tycoon Stanley Ho, where the company had not launched any project in six years.

10 Jun 2021 - 3:07PM

A scale model of Shun Tak Holdings’ Park Nova ultra-luxury residence in Singapore on display at the Shun Tak Centre in Sheung Wan on June 9, 2021. Photo: May Tse

Macau

Macau’s transformation plans run into difficulties

While analysts and industry observers agree on Macau’s need to diversify its economy from gaming, they say the city has to find a financial niche for itself.

4 Oct 2020 - 12:13PMvideocam

Singapore

A look at Stanley Ho’s foray into high-end Singapore property

The late Macau casino tycoon’s Shun Tak Holdings has spent more than US$1.4 billion on Singapore land and property since 2016, and market watchers are wondering if its residential and hotel projects are on track for completion.

31 May 2020 - 7:05AM

Millionaires and billionaires

Pansy steps up as de facto head of gambling king’s sprawling Ho clan

Pansy is the eldest child of Ho’s second wife, the fifth out of 16 children in the extended clan, and described by the late magnate as the child who is most like him in personality.

2 Jun 2020 - 5:34PM

Stanley Ho (left, background) and Pansy Ho (foreground, right) at Shun Tak Holdings’ media conference on 19 January 2006. Photo: SCMP

Obituaries

Macau casino magnate Stanley Ho dies aged 98

Ho leaves behind a gambling empire that contributed to as much as half of the tax receipts earned by the Macau government, a heft that made him the first living Macanese to have an avenue in the territory named after him.

29 May 2020 - 5:53PM

Macau

Macau extends gambling licenses of SJM, MGM China until 2022

With the extension, the casino concessions of SJM and MGM China would be synchronised with Sands China, Wynn Macau, Galaxy Entertainment and Melco Resorts.

20 Mar 2024 - 10:36AMvideocam

Stanley Ho

Investors back Pansy Ho as Macau’s new casino queen