It is now Hong Kong's second-biggest newspaper in circulation behind Oriental Daily News.
It is backed by Hong Kong's most famous billionaire, Li Ka-shing, and is the pride of government leaders.
GEM, too, but it is counting on Hong Kong's unique position as the financial gateway to China to make a difference.
To be sure, Microsoft is spending money to develop high-speed Net services and content in Asia (it is teamed with Hong Kong's major phone company on a broadband portal).
Some American programs still have large audiences, but the trend is the other way -- even if it is only toward Hong Kong and Taiwan kung fu dramas dubbed into Bahasa Indonesia.
It is now one of Hong Kong's most revered culinary traditions and is considered a staple meal, with fierce competition among top restaurants and hotels to win the loyalty of the families who make it their Sunday ritual.
After big depreciations in other Asian countries, it is the fear that the Hong Kong dollar is now overvalued that triggered much of the current panic.
From the very beginning, it is clear this is one film the Hong Kong authorities won't be showing to visiting dignitaries, as teenage street punk Autumn Moon (Sam Lee Chan-sam) bemoans an education system that has abandoned him and a society that doesn't care.
The stockmarket says much the same: well up from the depths it plumbed as Hong Kong crashed, it is still well below the heights to which it had climbed earlier this year.
Remember, too, that it is not just about Hong Kong from the top down.
However, our labor costs are too high compared to our next-door neighbors, and for political reasons, it is almost impossible for Hong Kong to import laborers.
Because Boom does not have its own seat, it is not covered by Hong Kong's compensation fund, which protects investors if a brokerage collapses.
In Hong Kong it is almost impossible for anyone to avoid making money for the Lis.
Tung contends that it is not too late for Hong Kong to jump on the technology bandwagon.
Certainly that's good for them, but is it really good for Hong Kong?
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Out of deference to Beijing, this is not widely publicized, though it is well-known among Hong Kong locals and industry insiders.
VoiceStream will offer messaging services under the AIM brand, while in Hong Kong it is ICQ which will be to the fore.
But if the company were ever to get into serious financial trouble, it is hard to believe that Hong Kong would let its main telecoms provider go bust.
Although the bond business isn't as lucrative, it is a viable alternative for Hong Kong-based Chinese investment banks, which lag behind their more established global peers in sectors such as asset management.
While Khan's company Atria has big plans, it is in the minority in Hong Kong, not only in terms of the size of its property portfolio, but also in the attitude to incorporating environmental concerns in building projects.
Salomon's Lim says the developer's stable rental and hotel income (it owns the King's Hotel in Singapore and the Marriott in Hong Kong) is helping cushion it from Singapore's residential property downturn.
The Chinese government's view is that what happens to Chinese citizens, even Hong Kong ones, is for it to decide.
In Hong Kong, it is 15% and 16.5% respectively with no capital gains tax.
Such cowardly behaviour hardly bodes well for Hong Kong when it is handed back to China in July.
Like Hong Kong, it is easy to get from the arrivals area to the train, and the train ride into town is short.
Not only is the view from the summit one of the most spectacular cityscapes in the world, it is a good way to get Hong Kong into perspective.
It is significant that financial institutions in Hong Kong and Singapore, both of which are wide open to foreign financial companies, have been able to withstand the region's turmoil.
The reason why the Chinese leadership has decided to dump him now is that it has realised that Hong Kong's election committee the 800 grandees, many pro-Beijing, who choose the chief executive completes its term of office in July.
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