So Tong and his partners suggested Hung, who, as another huge Hong Kong star, was a logical substitute.
Now in his 50s, the evergreen Hong Kong star of song and film stayed popular last year with the movie Blind Detective.
The trip takes about nine minutes (as long as it used to take to read the now defunct Hong Kong Star, a lowbrow tabloid newspaper, it was said), and departures are very frequent.
Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan heads our new list of top Chinese celebrities.
High flyers like Singapore's Creative Technology and Hong Kong infrastructure star Hopewell lost ground to the stock bears.
It's Hong Kong film star and Hollywood hopeful Chow Yun Fat striking what appears to be a kung fu pose, a matchstick clenched between his teeth, presumably for extra threat value.
It also has one of Hong Kong's largest ISPs with over half a million customers, as well as a broadband joint venture with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and its Hong Kong affiliate Star TV.
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The annual appraisal, which will be released in March in the US but is already stocked in local bookstores, reveals that although the three-star options in Hong Kong have held steady at four restaurants, the number of two-star earners has jumped from 10 to 13, and nine new restaurants nabbed a single star.
Wong is founder and chairman of Hong Kong's Star Telecom, formerly known as Star Paging.
He also took on Hong-Kong based Star TV, helping it to become one of the first foreign-owned broadcasters in Asia.
"We are hopeful we can reach a positive conclusion soon and launch a new service that complements our already substantial operations in China, " James Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of Hong-Kong based Star said.
Some tips: hop on the scenic Star Ferry between Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, instead of taking the underground MTR.
The Indonesians' immediate predecessors were the armies of maids from the Philippines, who have become as recognizable a feature of Hong Kong life as the Star Ferry--especially when they gather by the thousands on the streets every Sunday, their day off.
Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong turns 50 this year and is marking the achievement with a slew of special offerings and promotions to lure in travelers.
For the masses, Giordano has opened three Blue Star stores in the suburbs of Hong Kong.
International and pan-Asian broadcasters are based in Hong Kong, including News Corp's STAR TV.
These both derive from the talents of Hung, who has been a star of comedy-action films in Hong Kong since the 1970s.
Richard Li needs HKT for its half-a million ISP customers, for its fiber optic cables that circle every narrow Hong Kong alley and for some of its broadband ventures, like Star TV.
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These days, the 33-year-old Ipoh-born Hong Kong resident may be better known as Asia's highest-paid female action star, but loyal fans will remember that it was her looks that started it all for her years ago.
The STAR TV chief executive and son of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch moved to Hong Kong permanently with his wife, Kathryn, after their wedding in June.
Woods was three shots off the pace at the World Golf Championships event, tied for fifth with fellow U.S. Ryder Cup star Anthony Kim, their compatriot Ryan Moore, world No. 4 Paul Casey and Hong Kong Open champion Wen-tang Lin.
He also talked about PCCW's response to STAR's announcement, about the future of his business and about his new life in Hong Kong.
Kingfisher, the world's only Skytrax Five Star-ranked domestic airline (now also with flights to and from London, Dubai, Hong, Bangkok, Kathmandu and Singapore) makes life easy for those who do not have time to take India's scenic, but time-consuming trains.
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