Shanghai students comfortably pipped the South Koreans, Singaporeans and Hong Kong Chinese, with only eccentric Finns bucking the Western-slacker trend.
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The territory hosts several regional arts festivals, the Philharmonic and the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, and a boisterous Cantonese theater scene.
" Mr. Harris has described the China Resources involvement with the Hong Kong Chinese Bank as a "textbook Communist Chinese influence operation.
It stopped admitting Hong Kong Chinese children born to Hong Kong residents, whom the Basic Law, Hong Kong's mini-constitution, stipulates may live there.
Hong Kong Chinese often give cake vouchers as gifts, and thousands of recipients were desperate to redeem their vouchers before collapse rendered them worthless.
Cheng, who had the suits for his wedding in the Maldives made here last year, looks totally at home, chatting to the tailors in Cantonese (though, unlike many Hong Kong Chinese, Cheng is also fluent in Mandarin).
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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.
But the Hong Kong and Chinese governments regard Singapore as a rival to Hong Kong, perennially scheming to steal business away.
Major institutes of higher education, such as the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Baptist University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, either have already begun or soon plan to launch bachelor-degree courses on traditional Chinese medicine.
As its Hong Kong bureau chief, she won an Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the transfer of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 and shared another OPC award for the magazine's China reporting in 1996.
As in 2003, the best results have been achieved by Pacific rim countries, such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei and South Korea.
The toughest episode though also, in his view, a triumph came in 1983-84, with the talks that arranged the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty.
There was some strength in Hong Kong however, where the Hang Seng Index was up 0.4% to 20999.05, as Hong Kong listed Chinese companies outperformed.
As a commentator from Phoenix TV, a Hong Kong based Chinese TV station, pointed out, the Chinese government has no problem befriending the governments with bad reputations.
Buying Chinese stocks listed in Hong Kong, especially Chinese bank stocks (H shares), has been popular with foreign investors.
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Francis Lun, managing director of Lyncean Holdings in Hong Kong, said the accuracy of the export number was in doubt, based on what is known about the value of Chinese goods passing through Hong Kong, a semiautonomous Chinese territory.
Hong Kong Red Chips--shares of Chinese firms listed in Hong Kong, such as Citic Pacific or China Telecom, are treated separately from the rest of the Hong Kong market, because they tend to be more volatile and have different accounting standards.
As the last resident of that grand old house said "Hong Kong is a Chinese city with British characteristics".
Although Hong Kong is now Chinese, it has some freedom to negotiate independently.
Sophie Leung, who teaches pediatrics at Hong Kong's Chinese University, has been studying a group of children from birth through pre-adolescence.
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.
Rupert Murdoch's Phoenix network broadcasts soap operas and sports to the mainland by satellite out of Hong Kong, despite Chinese authorities' periodic attempts to block it.
If it has worries about Mr Tung's ability to lead Hong Kong, the Chinese government, by encouraging the new security legislation, is only making his predicament worse.
Jing, who is based in Hong Kong, says Chinese regulators are paying close attention to the promised returns from wealth-management products, particularly those that promise the sky.
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Here is why: Before floated in the Shanghai and the Hong Kong Exchanges, Chinese banks operated as government departments, within a central planning environment of controlled interest rates and government mandates.
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Although the bond business isn't as lucrative, it is a viable alternative for Hong Kong-based Chinese investment banks, which lag behind their more established global peers in sectors such as asset management.
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