In a separate incident, on Monday pirates opened fire on a Hong-Kong registered ship some 1,000 nautical miles off Somalia's coast.
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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 HongKong.
More alarming is Liu Tai-ying, a legislator and presidential adviser, who has said that if China attacks, then Taiwan should fire missiles into the sea near HongKong, to spark a panic in China's financial centre.
Because Mr Pan and Mr Wang had not shifted ownership to HongKong, Guangdong officials could force the Shunde shareholders to fire them and appoint a bureaucrat to replace them.