Ref: Netters yang berminat supaya segera melamar, “time is money” and “Money is love”.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/daughter-touched-but-inundated-with-offers-after-fathers-62m-bounty-to-find-a-husband-20120928-26pe6.html Daughter 'touched' but inundated with offers after father's $62m bounty to find a husband Date, September 28, 2012 - 11:47AM Joyce Man in Hong Kong Daughter 'moved' by father's $62m proposal Gigi Chao, the lesbian daughter of Hong Kong businessman Cecil Chao, reacts to her father's offer of a large dowry to a reasonable male suitor. A Hong Kong billionaire's daughter has been bombarded with marriage proposals, and even nude photographs, from as far afield as Oklahoma, Nigeria and Bulgaria after her father offered £40 million ($62.2 million) to the man who could woo her. Gigi Chao, daughter of property tycoon Cecil Chao, entered a civil partnership with her girlfriend of seven years in a ceremony in Paris five months ago. I am a really lucky girl to have such a loving daddy, because it's really sweet of him to do something like this. But Mr Chao, 76, has said that reports of his daughter's civil ceremony are "false". He announced the 500 million Hong Kong dollar dowry this week. Bounty ... Gigi Chao (right) is believed to have married her girlfriend of seven years Sean Eav (left) in France. Photo: Supplied Speaking yesterday Miss Chao, 33, said she had received about 200 proposals and that the number following her on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook had jumped by 1500 since her father's announcement. "It's ridiculous. I can't sort out the serious proposals from the half-hearted ones. I can't make head or tail of it," she said. Miss Chao, an executive director of her father's company, Cheuk Nang, said they included gentlemen who said they were looking for love and asked her out on a date, as well as some less conventional introductions. Some have attached nude photos of themselves or provided information about their finances. "Some of them had obviously done their research, you know, gone on my Facebook and looked at my background," she said. "Some of them are quite poetic." But far from feeling angry at her father, she said she was "touched". "At first I was entertained by it, and then that entertainment turned into the realisation and conviction that I am a really lucky girl to have such a loving daddy, because it's really sweet of him to do something like this," she said. She knew that her father would go public to deny the union, but did not know he would offer the reward. "I think the 500 million dollars really came as an afterthought." Miss Chao said that she loved her father and they had a good relationship. "It's not that he can't accept me," she said. "It's that he can't accept how society would view me and the status that it would incur. Marriage is still a form of social status. I do understand him. I understand why he's doing this. "But I don't appreciate getting 1500 emails." Miss Chao, who also runs a model management and PR firm, met her partner, Sean Yeung, while they were working together. Miss Chao, who has dated men and women, said she had always been open and honest about her relationships to her family. But when she told her mother about a relationship with a girl when she was 16, her mother "banged her head against the wall, literally". Members of the homosexual and lesbian community in Hong Kong are not widely accepted. Mr Chao is somewhat unconventional himself. He made headlines in 2003 when his Rolls-Royce caught fire while he and his girlfriend were inside. The tycoon has never married and once claimed to have had "intimate relations" with about 10,000 women. The Daily Telegraph, London Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/daughter-touched-but-inundated-with-offers-after-fathers-62m-bounty-to-find-a-husband-20120928-26pe6.html#ixzz27jwNB1mB [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
