Toyota may not have scored the huge profits of the region's most profitable venture, Hutchison Whampoa.
Spotify's owners include billionaire Li Ka-shing, chairman of Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.
The issue relates to Vodafone's 2007 takeover of Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa's Indian mobile unit.
Interestingly, one of the players that bid and won a British license is Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa.
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Hutchison Whampoa, a Hong Kong conglomerate, has just opened a huge container trans-shipment port on Grand Bahama.
Canning Fok, managing director of telecoms giant Hutchison Whampoa, Mannesmann's biggest shareholder, has testified that he first proposed the bonuses.
He and his people are gaga over super 3G phones, in which his Hutchison Whampoa has invested billions.
Hongkong International Terminals a unit of tycoon Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.
It is also the third-largest such issuance on record, after Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.
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Citing conflict of interest, Richard Li has pledged to resign his Hutchison Whampoa directorship if the HKT takeover goes through.
Chi-Med listed 28% of its outstanding shares on London's AIM exchange last May, but Hutchison Whampoa owns the other 72%.
Add to that the missing Hutchison Whampoa and other holdings of Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing, long seen as Asia's greatest tycoon.
Through its unit Hongkong International Terminals, Mr. Li's Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.
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The company, a joint venture between Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.
Hutchison Whampoa dominates the business, although three other operators also run terminals.
Hutchison Port Holdings, a unit of flagship Hutchison Whampoa, is the world's largest private port management company, handling a tenth of global trade.
Hogg, meanwhile, intends to tap the deep pockets of Hutchison Whampoa and acquire more Chinese medicine producers with good brands and strong products.
In 2000 he agreed to build 3 Scandinavia, a provider of third-generation mobile-phone services, in a joint venture with Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa.
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In the early 1990s, OOIL entered into a mutually profitable alliance with Hutchison International Port Holdings (HIPH), a subsidiary of Li's Hutchison Whampoa conglomerate.
Richard's Dad, Li Ka-shing, owns Cheung Kong, which controls half of Hutchison Whampoa, which in turn owns Hutchison, Hong Kong's biggest cellular phone company.
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Evidently bullish, he has been buying up more shares lately in his main holdings, Cheung Kong, Hutchison Whampoa and Canadian oil firm Husky Energy.
In a notable recent example, Webb in April exposed a complicated deal between the Nasdaq-listed ICG and Hutchison Whampoa, controlled by the Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing.
The 2007 Vodafone deal was structured as a transaction between the firm's Dutch subsidiary and a Cayman Islands-based company that held Hutchison Whampoa's India assets.
India says the U.K.-based company should pay a tax on its 2007 majority stake buy in a local telecom company from Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.
Now Hutchison Ports, part of Mr Li's Hutchison Whampoa group, has been blocked from tendering for a port project near an Indian naval base in Mumbai.
The same probably can be said of Hutchison Whampoa's just-announced purchase of a 61.5 percent majority interest in the bankrupt Bermuda-based telecommunications firm, Global Crossing Ltd.
Denmark's Moeller-Maersk, Singapore government investment agency Temasek Holdings and Li Ka-Shing's Hutchison Whampoa were also rumored to be potential bidders for the ferries group.
Another reportedly interested is Hong Kong-based conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa's Tom Group, who said last month it was premature to say it was in talks on a specific deal.
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Its 29 ports around the world would help Singapore's PSA, the second-biggest container port operator in the world, to gain ground on the industry leader, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.
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