Lim Por-yen

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Lim Por-yen (Chinese: 林百欣; pinyin: Lín Bǎixīn) (1914 – February 18, 2005) was a Hong Kong media tycoon and banker. His company was Lai Sun Development (麗新集團, 丽新集团). His family was the biggest shareholder of Asia Television (ATV).

He was born in 1914 in the city of Chaoyang (潮陽, 潮阳) in Guangdong province, and his family moved to Hong Kong in 1931. He began his entrepreneurial career in the garment manufacturing industry in the 1940s.

In 1999 he was convicted of bribery in Taiwan. His appeal of this conviction was still under consideration at the time of his death.

He died in February 2005. By Chinese calendar reckoning his age was considered to be 93.