Desmond Shum, 53, looks too big for the small Oxford café where I meet him. His legs are practically bent double around the tiny stool where he sits, his broad shoulders fill out a stylish but ...

INSKEEP: Desmond Shum, thank you for the update - really appreciate it. SHUM: Thank you for having me. It's very much appreciated. INSKEEP: Desmond Shum is outside of China now. He's a businessman.

Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China, by Desmond Shum. Simon & Schuster, $32.99. You are born in Shanghai, the only son in a typically ...

Desmond Shum said he hadn’t heard a peep from his ex-wife, Whitney Duan, since she failed to show up at the unveiling of her luxurious Bulgari hotel in Beijing in 2017. For four long years, Shum ...

Mr Shum now lives in the UK, from where he gave us his extraordinary account of business life at the highest level in China. And he tells us why he thinks the current Chinese economy is rotten to ...

As her ex-husband Desmond Shum recounts in his new book, Red Roulette, “she was last seen the day before in her sprawling office at Genesis Beijing, a $2.5 billion (AUD3.3 billion) development ...

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