Being based in Hong Kong you might think that would be the end of the story, but it is not.
The risk, of course, is that if Hong Kong devalues you could take a haircut, warns Raymond Dalio, president and chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates in Wilton, Conn.
If you're a Hong Kong citizen, if you're a Chinese, you should know your own country's heroes.
You drive from Hong Kong over to Kowloon, you can see a Tencent Weibo billboard that has been there for months.
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We have provided links to Qingdao and Hong Kong, so you can move there with a simple click.
What's the fascination with the underworld of Hong Kong society for you?
Turn U.S. dollars into Hong Kong dollars, deposit them in a Hong Kong bank and you earn 12% (annualized) for a one-month deposit.
As a visual spectacle, it rivals anything in The Lord of the Rings or King Kong, precisely because you know you're seeing a human being in action.
"It used to be that if you wanted to set up an office in China, you had to go to Hong Kong, hire a lawyer, hire a banker and take them with you to China, " says Coppedge.
Because you know Hong Kong traditional anticipation of people: Oh, come on, give me more action, explosion, pah pah pah, that kind of thing.
In the next 20 years nowhere in Asia, apart from Hong Kong and Singapore, will you have a fully fiber-optic wired backbone in place.
Your local friends, however, will never let you live it down if you visit Hong Kong without partaking of dim sum, which means "touch the heart" in Cantonese.
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' When you try to live off selling 100-Hong Kong-dollar-shirts, it catches up with you.
What do you think about Hong Kong's recent intervention in the stock market to protect the dollar peg?
Quoting Yash Ghai, an academic, you say that Hong Kong's people may be more committed to the rule of law than to democracy.
At some point in Hong Kong, no matter how careful you are to keep to quiet streets, the density of the city will start to close in.
At nearby Jaa Bar, an intimate space designed to feel like a living room with chandeliers and upholstered couches, annual membership costs 888 Hong Kong dollars, but in return you are gifted a bottle of Veuve Clicquot worth almost that much.
Looking ahead two years, the decision to relocate from West to East hinges on whether you believe financial jobs will be easier to find in Hong Kong -- as opposed to London or New York -- and whether you believe you are that much better than the competition.
Tickets are 20 Hong Kong dollars, and they also grant you access to the Heritage Museum's permanent exhibitions.
Still, you would think that Hong Kong would go to say a Hong Kong-born label like Shanghai Tang, a brand that patterns itself after Ralph Lauren, for its uniforms.
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Some restaurants, like the Ning Po Residents Association, require a nominal annual fee (around 200 Hong Kong dollars), but in return you gain access to excellent food (in this case, recipes from the city of Ningbo, near Shanghai, such as delicate, juicy soup dumplings and sweet-and-sour fish), in an exclusive but usually unpretentious setting.
Not surprisingly, once you know him, the Hong Kong places he loves tend toward the classic.
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Mr. PASCAL LAMY (World Trade Organization): What you all take back from Hong Kong is a new political energy, a potent fuel to reach cruising speed during 2006.
"You will see it happening in Hong Kong, " says Thomas Koetzsch, a Hong Kong-based analyst for bank rating agency Capital Intelligence.
"And if you have to serve a year in jail, then at least you can eat one year of Hong Kong rice sweet!"
Hong Kong's compactness and excellent transport means that you can live in the area you want without sacrificing access to restaurants, shopping and nightlife.
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