But it should be, according to the brand new 2013 Michelin Guide for Hong Kong and Macau.
Today China, including Hong Kong and Macau, has a share of just 6% (see chart 1).
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The flow from the source of the Pearl River, which empties into the South China Sea near Hong Kong and Macau, has been reduced to a trickle from a waterfall.
According to the Hong Kong Immigration Department, mainland tourists increased by 32.7% y-o-y between February 11 and February 13. (CNY holidays are two days shorter in Hong Kong and Macau than in the mainland).
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One major obstacle that we faced when launching our first project back in Zhongshan was that local buyers and factory investors that were coming in from Hong Kong and Macau had limited purchasing power.
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The Gulf States of the Middle East and Malaysia also have a dollar peg, as does Hong Kong, Macau and, surprisingly, Venezuela and Lebanon.
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The magic includes the launching of nine models and will finance the average 8% pay hike just given and the all-expenses-paid trek to Macau and Hong Kong that the 200 best dealers will get in July.
King Power once was a public company listed on the American Stock Exchange, with operations in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Cambodia.
Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia and Singapore are popular among them, and the top three destinations where they want to go are Australia, Japan and London.
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The OECD had initially singled out 47 jurisdictions that included the likes of Hong Kong, Macau, the Philippines and Malaysia, but hasty commitments to improve transparency along with some backroom deal-making led to all four being removed from the blacklist.
Three UK is a member of the HWL group of companies, which include 3G operations in Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Macau and Sweden.
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While Hong Kong was more of a business center and Macau was becoming a resort destination, there were enough similarities to cross reference the data and his team was able to create an analytic left-brain quantitative prioritization model using a right brain intuitive approach to the data.
The operation survived numerous wars, moving to Macau in 1902 and finally to Hong Kong in 1932.
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There is a new railway that connects Macau and Guangzhou that aims to reduce travel time from the mainland, as well as the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau road bridge.
Both Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts have already listed their Macau operations in Hong Kong.
Chu has influence on penny stocks in Hong Kong and is a close friend of Angela Leong, wife number four of Macau casino king Stanley Ho.
The PRC has free trade agreements with Chile, Costa Rica, Hong Kong, Macau, Niger, Pakistan, Peru, New Zealand, Singapore, and Thailand, as well as the ASEAN group.
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.
The Sands now gets nearly 90% of its operating profit from Asia, including from a casino resort in Singapore and Hong Kong-listed joint venture Sands China, which has three resorts in Macau.
He made his fortune investing in nearby Macau in the 1990s and is a well-known property developer in Hong Kong.
"The way people buy has changed completely, " says Amelia Johnson, owner of the Hong Kong gallery Amelia Johnson Contemporary, which represents artists from Macau, Japan, Malaysia, Australia and China.
Hong Kong entertainment czar Allan Zeman, whose advice and contacts in the Hong Kong business world helped casino magnate Steve Wynn open the posh Wynn Macau resort in 2006, has resigned from the board of Wynn Resorts this month.
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Chinese Estates, which owns and operates many shopping centers in Hong Kong, said it would make further announcements "if and when there is any significant development" in respect to the Macau land.
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