"The bottom line is Japan doesn't want to hurt exports, " said Kevin Chau, a senior currency strategist at IDEAglobal.

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Luring back high-fliers such as Mr Chau would be a start.

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In Hong Kong, Chau expects that falling interest rates will help stocks as a whole, especially such blue-chip property developers as Cheung Kong and Sun Hung Kai Properties, both Chau holdings, since lower borrowing costs should stimulate demand for property. (Fair disclosure: Through cef Holdings, Cheung Kong is an investor in Chau's employer, TAL CEF Global Asset Management).

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The unexpected drop in the Conference Board's consumer confidence index to 53.1 in September, from 54.5 in August, provoked a "dollar-safety" play, but Chau believes the market is waiting for Friday's labor report to set the tone for the dollar's near-term future.

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At a time when tech shares have lost their luster, Chau says that he's still interested in those shares.

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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.

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With that in mind, Chau holds shares in China Resources, listed in Hong Kong, a Chinese conglomerate whose business extends from food and beverages into retailing.

FORBES: One China, Many Choices

"We are not a command economy, " sniffs the SAR's secretary for trade and industry, Brian Chau Tak-hay, in an interview with the South China Morning Post.

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"There's a silence that falls upon the room as the kids watch him play, " said Tom Chau, vice president for research at Holland Bloorview, and who developed the Virtual Music Instrument.

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