For example, a user in Hong Kong will get content for a website from a server in Hong Kong rather than a server in Paris.
According to a judgment issued by a judge in Hong Kong in 2009, Lee was disqualified from being a director of a Hong Kong company for 4.5 years.
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Whether living in a Cheung Kong apartment, switching on a Fortress appliance powered by Hong Kong Electric, buying groceries at Park 'N Shop or toiletries at Watson's, listening to Metro Radio, or, soon, connecting via a PCCW-HKT line, people in the Special Administrative Region are a captive market.
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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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.
In one case, a U.S. company sold stock in a Hong Kong company that owned a 49% interest in a Chinese joint venture.
Right now has significant investments in several Chinese stocks including China Media Express Holdings ( CCME) , a Hong Kong based company has a television advertising network displayed on buses and other urban areas.
As Jardine Fleming, a Hong Kong stockbroker, points out, the creation of red chips is merely a continuation of a trend that began in the early 1970s with a big increase in the number of listed companies controlled by Hong Kong Chinese families.
Microsoft has teamed up with a Hong Kong record label to record a Canto-pop anti-piracy anthem, which is played on local radio.
Hutchison Whampoa, a Hong Kong conglomerate, has just opened a huge container trans-shipment port on Grand Bahama.
Joyce May May Shiu, a Hong Kong language tutor, has owned a pager for eight years but recently bought a mobile phone.
Siwei is a subsidiary of ERA Mining Machinery, a Hong Kong-listed firm controlled by a shell company whose principals are two American entrepreneurs in China.
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"That's why the shares of Advanced Information or Total Access Communications (TAC) in Thailand and TRI in Malaysia have been hit, " says a Hong Kong fund manager who has been a big cellular fan.
The Education Bureau says all schools that follow a Hong Kong curriculum must start the classes over a three-year period.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Balmer made an appearance at a Hong Kong press conference in October to announce a partnership to sell software and services.
And also good for the Hong Kong film industry that Americans want to buy a Hong Kong film to remake, makes everybody happy.
" He nevertheless discerns a problem for adMart: Hong Kong's size - "Any online e-commerce focusing only on a population like Hong Kong is going to be in for a real disappointment.
"It's a business problem - and people really have to take the bit between their teeth, " says Ray Muller, business consulting manager for CSSL, a Hong Kong-based reseller of IBM mainframes that will soon launch a consulting division to offer clients solutions to their Year 2000 problems.
Ms. Rogers was a flight attendant for United Airlines based in Hong Kong and was a resident of Hong Kong.
The new branch of a longtime Hong Kong favorite attracts a line most nights, serving up gourmet pizzas such as the New Orleans topped with Cajun chicken, spinach, potatoes and sour cream.
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Creativity was nurtured by the study of fashion at a Hong Kong technical college.
Anyone with a Hong Kong yuan account is now able to trade the currency.
The U.S. paper also has a Hong Kong-based edition, known as The Wall Street Journal Asia.
Among them is Rebecca Woo, a Hong Kong-based analyst for the Nomura Research Institute.
Graff is the latest overseas business looking to promote itself in Asia through a Hong Kong listing.
Hop Inn has a youthful vibe and nine small but artful rooms, each featuring illustrations by a Hong Kong artist.
Ma is exploring a Hong Kong listing, but his main focus appears to be going public on Nasdaq.
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Hans Chan, a Hong Kong-based account manager in the digital and applied imaging division of Kodak (Far East) Ltd.
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