Asia's Top Soap Opera (Week 2)

A billionaire from Macau, Stanley Ho, built up a lucrative gambling empire in the former Portuguese colony over nearly half a century. Stanley Ho accused family members of seizing his stake in Asia's biggest casino empire, plunging ownership of the gambling business into dispute. A bitter feud among his three surviving wives and 17 children over the family empire burst into the open this week and has become Asia's top soap opera. Stanley Ho who is now 89 years old may take deep action to keep the ownership over the casinos in Macau. The transfer of most of Ho's casino holdings were against his wishes and the actions of his family members will be taken to court. Oldham, his lawyer, told the media by the phone, "what really upsets him is dead he's not even dead yet, but in the twilight of his life his second and third families appeared to be squabbling and pinching it for themselves. There's no doubt that he has all his faculties".

From an outsider's point of view, this is very similar to a typical Hong Kong drama series where the family members would fight against each other over the family's property. These are likely to happen to those families who are wealthy. As they said, MONEY RULES! This might be an interesting 'life drama' to watch but at the same time, it is also very saddening to see the family members fighting among each other and push aside all the good values of a family member and surrender them into selfishness for the sake of monetary benefits. I believe that Stanley Ho, although he's very very rich, may not live a peaceful life and have a good time spending his money happily due to the family conflict which is happening now. Things will get worse as time goes by when all these conflicts are to be taken to courts. Not only that they have to deal with their own family members. They have to also deal with the media and the public. This is not what a happy family should do. They should be enjoying their wealth happily with each other instead of having this soap opera. I do hope that Stanley Ho and his family will come to wake one day and realize that MONEY IS NOT EVERYTHING.