Ping An's Hong Kong-listed shares dropped 2.6%.

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To make "The Matrix" (1999) and its sequels, the Wachowski brothers hired legendary Hong Kong action director Yuen Woo-Ping as a fight choreographer so Michelle Yeoh's scorpion kick from Mr. Yuen's "Tai-Chi Master" (1993) became Carrie-Anne Moss's scorpion kick in "The Matrix Reloaded" (2003).

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In 1985, along with business partner Roy Chung Chi-ping, he founded Techtronic Industries in Hong Kong, which had six employees and focused on producing rechargeable battery packs in hand tools.

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Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, the CEO of the Jockey Club, which in addition to its gambling business also runs horse-racing and entertainment facilities for its 23, 000 members and the public, spoke with Te-Ping Chen about the challenges of running a sprawling Hong Kong institution.

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In the late summer of 2007, a fifty-year-old former barber named Siu Yun Ping began making regular visits from his village, in Hong Kong, to the city of Macau, the only Chinese territory where it is legal to gamble in a casino.

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China Development Bank replaced the head of its Hong Kong branch, weeks after the lender began to reconsider its role in the deal to buy a Ping An stake.

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