However, local analysts say the company's management skills are among the strongest of any large Hong Kong company.
Nevertheless, Netcom's 20% stake does not give it a licence to control a publicly listed Hong Kong company.
Predictably, Asia's market meltdown slashed share trading among Hong Kong company directors.
In one case, a U.S. company sold stock in a Hong Kong company that owned a 49% interest in a Chinese joint venture.
The Hong Kong company otherwise had no assets and no employees.
Lenddo, a Hong Kong company now targeting borrowers in Colombia and the Philippines, makes small loans for "life-improving" purposes such as education, medical emergencies and home improvement.
Meanwhile, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee investigating campaign fund-raising has supoenaed the bank records of a Hong Kong company, Young Brothers, that donated money to the Republican Party.
According to a judgment issued by a judge in Hong Kong in 2009, Lee was disqualified from being a director of a Hong Kong company for 4.5 years.
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"What he is so good at is making the right gesture at the right time, before the right audience, " says a senior executive of a rival Hong Kong company.
The Hong Kong company aims to strike gold by expanding the global appeal of traditional Chinese medicines and by using modern drug development methods to unearth new drugs within Chinese medicinal herbs.
The best proved to be Hong Kong wireless company China Unicom, up 142% in total return.
In this case the target is an eight-year-old Hong Kong biotech company, Filligent.
Already the Hong Kong listed company has gotten a lot of attention in the U.S. thanks to its famous investor American billionaire Warren Buffett.
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The best proved to be Hong Kong wireless company China Unicom (nyse: CHU - news - people ), up 142% in total return.
Right now has significant investments in several Chinese stocks including China Media Express Holdings ( CCME) , a Hong Kong based company has a television advertising network displayed on buses and other urban areas.
Based in Hong Kong, the company is owned 50-50 by Ward and Ferry.
Surprisingly, CalPERS still owns stock in Citic Pacific, an affiliated Hong Kong-based company.
In August the Hong Kong-based company launched "Hello Kitty Online, " a mass multiplayer online game focused on creating community within a safe and entertaining environment.
Last December, his Hong Kong-based company, Michael Kors Holdings Ltd.
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The move would provide the Hong Kong-based company with capital for new investments at a time when the number of tourists arriving in the city is hitting new highs.
The best performer in Hong Kong was gambling company Sands China, which climbed 2.4%, after Macau's government gave it a three-year extension to complete a key project in the gambling hub.
The U.S. Treasury on Thursday levied new North Korea sanctions, against a Hong Kong-based company and two officials from a North Korean bank it said is linked to North Korea's weapons programs.
Profit at Hong Kong-listed company plunged and it suffered from bad publicity at home one of its cars caught on fire after a collision in Shenzhen, which is located just north of Hong Kong.
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Not long ago, Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong upgraded the company to a long-term buy because it believed more good news was to come and the market hadn't fully accounted for expected future earnings.
According to a September company disclosure to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Wu owns 43.2% of Longfor through the Wu Family Trust, which she set up in June 2008, one year before the company listed in Hong Kong.
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Consider for example the recent decision of the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong to allow shares of the United Company RUSAL to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
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Not true, says Henry Law, spokesman for the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing company.
Langham Hospitality Investments Limited was in focus in Hong Kong, as the company dropped 8.8% on its trading debut.
At 46 years of age, Huang, who leads the Hong Kong-based investment company QSL Sports, is an intriguing figure.
But increasingly, says Jenny Sutton of the Hong Kong-based RFP Company, clients are refusing to pay for junior staff's on-the-job training.
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