As his boat drifts through a hidden lagoon on the uninhabited island of Ko Hong, he cocks his head to listen to a family of macaques chattering among the mangroves.
Born in San Francisco to globe-trotting parents, he became a child actor in Hong Kong, where he learned kung fu and became a dance champion.
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But what Hinrichs didn't realize when he founded Asian Sources trade publications in Hong Kong was that he had laid the foundation for the region's first business-to-business Internet company.
But before Chen arrived in Asia, Wynn needed a guide and mentor when he was seeking backers for his Macau bid in Hong Kong, where he knew few people.
Not surprisingly, once you know him, the Hong Kong places he loves tend toward the classic.
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Based in Hong Kong, he studied mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and has worked as a toy designer.
In Hong Kong, he socializes with collectors like Credit Suisse banker Tony Chiu and BNP Paribas banker Daisy Cheng.
An MBA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, he worked for the fund management arms of Hongkong Bank and Japanese securities giant Daiwa before joining Thornton in 1994.
He only got into the race when another contestant dropped out, and he quickly booked a flight to Hong Kong from Vienna, where he lives.
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"There's been a huge outperformance in China shares listed in Hong Kong, " he says.
The guy who got the job is a local Hong Konger, and he's here.
Mr. Dotcom later started a new life in Hong Kong, where he was the mastermind behind Megaupload, among other businesses.
Like most Hong Kong moguls, he tends to his mainland contacts.
Dickie Wong, executive director of research at Kingston Securities in Hong Kong, said he was optimistic that an agreement on the U.S. debt ceiling would be reached because of the high price tag attached to failing to do so.
Though he was born in Hong Kong, Brown waited to start a gallery in his hometown until he felt the market was ripe and that buyers had gained a real appreciation for western art.
For Chapple-Hyam it was really a day of redemption after having hit the heights with Dr Devious and other classic winners he opted to leave for Hong Kong, which was a low point in his career and he decided on a low key return to Europe.
The hardships Lui faced when he first came to Hong Kong in the 1930s, living hand to mouth, still influences his desire to keep working, although he now leaves the responsibility for day-to-day operations to his family and senior executives.
One of the tourists said he was from Hong Kong, according to a hospital official.
Liu's compatriot Ding Junhui also received a tough draw as he will face Hong Kong's Marco Fu.
In March he thought the Hong Kong market, which often tracks the Dow, was close to a peak.
At age 12, having left China with his family during the Japanese occupation, he arrived in Hong Kong for high school.
His acting career took off in 1986 when he starred opposite Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-Fat in John Woo's gangster movie A Better Tomorrow.
Stephen Au, 45, who moved to Shanghai from his home in Hong Kong says the apartment he was thinking about buying six months ago is still available.
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In December, he won the Hong Kong Cup, an international showcase race with a hefty purse, for the second year in a row atop the same gray gelding, California Memory.
And Lee is moving more people to Synaptics' new Hong Kong office, where he hopes they can work more hand-in-hand with the big Asian manufacturers that invariably pump out the products.
However, if a user wanted to replay every transaction on the Hong Kong stock exchange, he would have to reprogram the application to run it in parallel across multiple processing cores.
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