"Don't quote me on this, but tom.com has a big Li Ka-shing premium attached to it, " says one Hong Kong-based fund manager, who doesn't own the stock but wishes he did.
The preponderance of that Hutchison name signals one thing: Chi-Med has a very powerful backer in Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man and chairman and dominant shareholder of the globe-spanning conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa.
Now SingTel seems to be about to snatch a small prize away from Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa and Singaporeans are so jubilant that they are making a big deal out of it.
His schoolmaster father had contracted tuberculosis, and young Ka-shing suffered a milder bout but worked through it ("I always had a fighting heart").
Both the Academy of Sciences and private donors such as Li Ka-shing, a Hong Kong-based billionaire, are dishing out money to make conditions attractive for returning Chinese scholars.
The Shanghai Corporate Pavilion at the World Expo, funded by local state enterprises, commissioned a Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer, Liu Heung Shing, to compile a book of images of Shanghai's history, giving him unprecedented access to the city's archives.
For all of Italy's sclerosis, it is a telecom battleground, with Britain's Vodafone (nyse: VOD - news - people ) and a venture owned by Hong Kong titan Li Ka-shing among the participants.
Interestingly, one of the players that bid and won a British license is Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa.
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The university itself bumped along for two decades but is enjoying a renewed push under Li Ka-shing Foundation director Solina Chau.
Medical care, it turns out, is a big part of what Li Ka-shing is already doing in China.
Ding shopped the firm around to investors, including a tech firm run by Li Ka-shing, but found no takers.
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But Shing-Tung Yau, a Chinese-born Harvard mathematician, doesn't see it that way.
And there is the small matter of his father, Li Ka-Shing, Hong Kong's richest tycoon and a force in telecoms thanks to his ownership of Hutchinson Whampoa, which last year made a fortune selling its stake in the Orange mobile network in Britain to Germany's Mannesmann.
Here was the region's richest resident, Li Ka-shing, tying the milestones of his 78 years to a crowning wish.
The son of tycoon Li Ka-shing, Richard Li recently snatched HKT from the grasp of Singapore Telecom, a government-linked corporation, just as it was about to close a deal for a majority stake in Hong Kong's dominant telco.
In late 2011 he released a prototype app called Trimmit and secured financial backing from Horizons Ventures, the investment vehicle of billionaire Ka-shing, and spent much of 2012 working with specialist NLP engineers and angel investors to improve the app and re-release it as Summly.
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Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing dropped out of school at age 15, after his father died, to work in a factory.
These strands came together in 1999 in the Cyberport project, a property development disguised as an information-technology initiative, negotiated with the Pacific Century Group of Li Ka-shing, the most redoubtable of Hong Kong tycoons.
Husky Oil, though still a Canadian company with large oil sands holdings, is controlled by Victor Li, son of Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing.
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.
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