HONG KONG -- When Thomas Kwok Ping-kwong walked free on bail of 10 million Hong Kong dollars ($1.3 million) on July 12, emotions ran high. The disgraced property tycoon was greeted by his son Adam Kwok Kai-fai with open arms, and the two spent the next few minutes hugging in front of a sea of cameras and jostling journalists.
"When you have lost something in life like freedom, you know how precious it is," said Thomas, 64, former co-chairman of Hong Kong's flagship developer Sun Hung Kai Properties, who is making a final appeal against his conviction in the territory's highest-profile corruption scandal. The hearing is scheduled for next year.
