Founder & Sponsors
Numerous philanthropic, charitable and other projects include:
1962
Convent & Santa Rosa de Lima Macau
1964-93
Low Cost Home Ownership and Financing Schemes Hong Kong
1965
Eric Hotung Trust Fund for Secondary education
1974
Initial funding for restoration of Castle Mailberg and Church of St. John the Baptist
1978
Georgetown University Trauma Team for Vietnamese refugees in Cambodia and other projects
1980
Intercultural Center Georgetown University (joint sponsorship with U.S. Federal Government)
Brathay Expedition and Operation Drake
1983
Roma Institum Historicum, S.J., publisher of the publication of the Bibliographie SUR, L'Historie de la Compaign de Jesus by Lazio Polgar, S.J.
1984
Initiated visit of Cardinal Sin of the Philippines to China
1987
US-China Trade Conference at US Senate (Advocating unconditional renewal of China's Most Favored Nation trading status)
1990
Co-sponsor (with US-China Business Council) conference on Reassessing US-China Ties: Economic Policy and the Role of Business at US State Dept.
Co-host (with US national Committee on US-China Relations) to Chinese Mayors' Delegation led by the present Premier Zhu Rongji at US Senate and State Dept.
1996
Provided the Hotung Pavilion, Shanghai Museum, and a bronze vessel of great antiquity to the Bronze Gallery of the Museum
1998
Cultural Relics Adminstration to publish an encylopedia of the 20th Century Chinese Art
1999
Donation of a forest of stone plaques at the Waihai Cemetery to memorialize the fallen youth of both sides of the Xuzhou Waihai Campaign (1984)
Donation to build a Chinese Scholar's Garden on the Staten Island, New York
2000
Purchased a former Royal Australian Navy survey vessel, renamed it m.v. "Patricia .Anne Hotung" Donated the vessel to transport about 12,000 refugees from West Timor to East Timor
Donated a free clinic building in Dili, East Timor, for benefit of the Timorese people
Setup "Hotung Special Fund" for the protection of Mothers And Infants of the LongSheng County, Guangxi, China
Sponsored school projects in Qinghai Province, Ningxia Province and Liaoning province
Founding Benefactor, The East Timor Good Samaritan Foundation, Dili East Timor
Donated an optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanner to the Eye Hospital of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing
Donated to the Eric Hotung International Law Center, Georgetown University, Washington DC
Set up Korea Eric Hotung Fund for the children of North Korea
Funding and construction for a large building which accommodates 150 students from remote areas of Timor-Leste
2002
Co-host (with China Institute for International Strategic Studies) an International Symposium on “ Asia-Pacific Security Situation “
2003
Co-host (with China Institute for International Strategic Studies) an International Symposium “ Sino-US-European Relations in the New Century: Opportunities and Challenges ”
2004
Co-host (with China Institute for International Strategic Studies) an International Symposium “ International Counter-Terrorism Situation and Cooperation ”
2005
Donated to hire a plane to carry urgently needed supplies and equipment to Sri Lanka for the Tsunami Relief (through SES, UK)
Co-host (with China Institute for International Strategic Studies) an International Symposium on “ non-traditional security: Challenges & Responses ”
Established "Eric Hotung Research Fellowships" to promote research and to enhance the research profile of the School of Law of the University of Canterburry, New Zealand