Editor's Choice News Article Reuters.co.uk: "Ex-banker takes school charity to market
Thu Apr 28, 2005 2:32 PM BST
By Brian Kelleher
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Three Hong Kong high school students didn't give up when their school turned down their proposal for a taekwondo program.
With the help of a teacher, they're taking their idea for martial arts lessons to the capital markets.
Hong Kong native Samuel Poon, a former top investment banker for Merrill Lynch, is trying to turn school funding on its head by applying the supply and demand principles of a stock market to charitable giving."
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