What would Woo do if something like that happened after he became Hong Kong's leader?
Mr Tung hopes to change that impression when he delivers Hong Kong's equivalent of a state-of-the-nation address, in early October.
He says Hong Kong's top 500, 000 professionals are ready to pay 90% of the income taxes because only they understand how an absence of democracy promotes stability and prosperity.
One of the tourists said he was from Hong Kong, according to a hospital official.
Liu's compatriot Ding Junhui also received a tough draw as he will face Hong Kong's Marco Fu.
In March he thought the Hong Kong market, which often tracks the Dow, was close to a peak.
At age 12, having left China with his family during the Japanese occupation, he arrived in Hong Kong for high school.
His acting career took off in 1986 when he starred opposite Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-Fat in John Woo's gangster movie A Better Tomorrow.
Born in San Francisco to globe-trotting parents, he became a child actor in Hong Kong, where he learned kung fu and became a dance champion.
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In December, he won the Hong Kong Cup, an international showcase race with a hefty purse, for the second year in a row atop the same gray gelding, California Memory.
Porteous said former United goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel was mobbed by fans when he arrived at Hong Kong airport to promote the game, and again by local journalists at a press conference -- despite leaving the club in 1999.
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In April, Harry Wu, an American citizen who is barred from entering China because of his criticism of Chinese prison labor, was turned back when he landed in Hong Kong, despite rules permitting Americans to visit Hong Kong without a visa.
Though he was born in Hong Kong, Brown waited to start a gallery in his hometown until he felt the market was ripe and that buyers had gained a real appreciation for western art.
He chooses Singapore, Taiwan, the Philippines and Hong Kong because he thinks they have U.S.-style equity returns.
But what Hinrichs didn't realize when he founded Asian Sources trade publications in Hong Kong was that he had laid the foundation for the region's first business-to-business Internet company.
He only got into the race when another contestant dropped out, and he quickly booked a flight to Hong Kong from Vienna, where he lives.
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But before Chen arrived in Asia, Wynn needed a guide and mentor when he was seeking backers for his Macau bid in Hong Kong, where he knew few people.
For Chapple-Hyam it was really a day of redemption after having hit the heights with Dr Devious and other classic winners he opted to leave for Hong Kong, which was a low point in his career and he decided on a low key return to Europe.
His young son Richard is also used to getting what he wants from the Hong Kong government.
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He says he is proud of how he has helped pioneer Hong Kong's trade in haunted houses.
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He also took on Hong-Kong based Star TV, helping it to become one of the first foreign-owned broadcasters in Asia.
Woo's producing partner, Chang, says the need to prove box-office appeal has slowed Woo's creative progression from where he left off in Hong Kong.
Though he briefly joined the Hong Kong Observers, a vocal and liberal group of professionals that has become defunct, "I was never a radical, " he says.
As his boat drifts through a hidden lagoon on the uninhabited island of Ko Hong, he cocks his head to listen to a family of macaques chattering among the mangroves.
Although he now lives in Hong Kong, Eldon has been a frequent traveler to the Gulf as the nonexecutive chairman of HSBC Bank Middle East since April of last year.
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