Peregrine is the first Hong Kong securities house to need a helping hand after the region's markets collapsed.
Rather than forcing a five-year lease on tenants as most commercial landlords do in Hong Kong, Dotcom House signs deals for as short as one year -- "In case the start-ups aren't around longer, " adds Chan ruefully.
With a CV that includes top roles with the Conservative Party, the chancellorship of Oxford University, the governorship of Hong Kong and the House of Lords, Lord Patten is no stranger to the higher echelons of the British establishment.
Weijian Shan, managing director of Newbridge Capital, a Hong Kong venture-capital house, and one of Baosteel's four independent directors, says its particular scheme for non-tradable shares is both wrong and illegal.
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Sunik Karyawiti landed in Hong Kong in 1992 to tend house at the age of 14.
But the latest boom in real-estate prices has nearly wiped away Hong Kong's haunted-house discount.
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He was accorded a rare courtesy - breakfast at the colonial-era house of Hong Kong's former British governors.
Until November last year he was the chief investment officer of the respected Lloyd George Management fund house in Hong Kong (FORBES GLOBAL, Dec. 13, 1999).
As the last resident of that grand old house said "Hong Kong is a Chinese city with British characteristics".
Failures are rare but they do happen: Hong Kong's futures clearing-house ran out of resources in 1987, for example, and it took a government bail-out and the closure of the main stockmarket for things to get back to normal.
In October 2012, to target short-term investors seeking to flip a house for profit, Hong Kong extended the existing special stamp duty, or SSD, on property resales from two to three years.
The new Hong Kong offices were opened July 9 at a special in-house inauguration ceremony attended by ICA board of directors.
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The couple still have a house in Boston, and an apartment in Hong Kong, but Shanghai is where they see themselves for the long term.
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Yet American views of Mr Clinton's trip, which includes a visit to Hong Kong, are likely to change as the notoriously insensate White House press pack sniffs a new direction the warm reception the president will get from ordinary Chinese.
For example, auction house Sotheby's only began work on its new office space in Hong Kong last year after a feng shui master chose an auspicious date.
The 247-year-old auction house, with sale rooms in London, Paris, New York and Hong Kong, announced on Tuesday that it plans to hold auctions in Shanghai starting this autumn.
We in developed countries take for granted the relative ease of starting a business and the existence of a uniform property rights system--you can buy a house in Idaho and get financing for it from a bank in London or Hong Kong.
Two weeks ago, real estate consulting firm Knight Frank said that China housing prices rose 9.3% in 2012, while Hong Kong housing prices rose the most out of all the 55 countries and cities in their Global House Price Index, up 23.6%.
According to a report on Engadget.com, the cable connection across the river separating Hong Kong and the China was powered by a slingshot fired from a high-rise building on one side to a house on the other side.
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