The Jacobean poet and cleric John Donne once wrote to the effect that families, like states, do well to keep their internal struggles private, and to "compose and determine all emergent differences" behind closed doors. How some of Asia’s most prominent families must be wishing they could have done just that in recent months.
In Hong Kong, investors at Sun Hung Kai’s annual May results meeting were shocked by the absence of the three Kwok brothers, Walter, Thomas and Raymond, who have been fixtures at such meetings since their father died 18 years ago. It then emerged that Walter, eldest...
