Family and Personal Life
Ng is married to Yeoh Saw Kheng (楊素瓊), who is the 3rd daughter of Dr Yeoh Ghim Seng, the former Speaker of Parliament of Singapore
Ng's eldest son Daryl Ng Win Kong (黃永光) was born in 1978. Though he holds Singaporean citizenship and returned to Singapore for mandatory military service, in interviews with Hong Kong media, he emphasises that "Hong Kong blood flows in my veins", reminding his interlocutors that he was born at Queen Mary Hospital and attended Diocesan Boys' School rather than an international school in his youth. He later went to the United States, where he graduated from Columbia University in 2003, and after two years as a project manager in Sino Group was elevated to the company's board as an executive director in 2005. He is generally expected to be his father's successor. In 2007 he began to take on a more public role within the Sino Group, first appearing at a land auction with his father in October that year. During his first time speaking with the media about the property market in March 2008, he appeared nervous and spoke only briefly. He is married, and has one son (黃家寶, born December 2009).
Ng's eldest daughter Nikki Ng Mien Hua (黃敏華) attended Yale University as an undergraduate, and went on to receive a master's degree from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies. She was later appointed to the position of general manager of the Sino Group. Her activities outside of Sino Group include membership of the 11th Qingdao Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Ng also has two younger daughters Jeanne Ng Mien Yi (黃敏儀) and Christine Ng Mien Yin (黃敏音).
Beginning in the late 1990s, the family became more active in the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Daryl, Nikki, and Jeanne own four horses between them, while the elder Ng himself owns eight and his wife one. At one point in 2002, Ng was said to be interested in joining the 12-member board of stewards of the Hong Kong Jockey Club; however, some of the club's 200 voting members objected due to Ng's conduct during the futures market collapse in 1987.
Both Daryl and Nikki are members of the five-person board of the Hong Kong Heritage Conservation Foundation. The HKHCF was initially set up under the name Nice Brilliant Limited in December 2007, and changed its name in March 2008. In October 2008, the HKHCF made a bid for the revitalisation of the Old Tai O Police Station, with the intention of turning it into a boutique hotel; legislators looked suspiciously at the foundation's ties to the Sino Group, with Fernando Cheung accusing them of being a "one-man NGO" set up for business purposes rather than social service. The HKHCF's bid was eventually successful; their conversion project is planned for completion at the end of 2011, with an estimated cost of HK$64.9 million.
Ng's father Ng Teng Fong died in Singapore on 2 February 2010 at the age of 82 after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage. Ng said his father was "always optimistic and hardworking".
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