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              Wong—who joined the company in 1985 after graduating from Hong Kong Polytechnic  University  as a surveyor and rose through the ranks to become the CEO six years ago—has earned a reputation for seizing   opportunities  and staying the course amid a crisis. At the turn of the millennium, between the Asian  financial  crisis and the 2003 SARS outbreak, he started rebuilding from scratch Hongkong Land’s residential property business, which it had divested in the 1980s. His first project, a redevelopment of an aging Hong Kong apartment complex called Lai Sing Court, had a bumpy start. After Wong spent more than two-and-a-half years persuading at least 90% of homeowners to agree to a collective sale and overcame objections from  Gets me up  to relax its height restriction, SARS crashed Hong Kong’s property market. Charles Ng, one of Lai Sing Court’s homeowners, recalls Wong still honored his co...