Richard Li's purchase of Hongkong Telecom (HKT), in which Li is thought to have played a key behind-the-scenes role, was criticized as making the clan too dominant in the local economy.

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Industry insiders also are watching to see how the Game of Thrones franchise will affect tourism in Northern Ireland, where many of the key scenes were shot.

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For one of the movie's most disturbing scenes, they produced a creeping tone in the same key as a floor buffer droning in the background.

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One has never heard of "Fifty Shades" so the other fills her in as the two-male, two-female crew takes on key scenes from the first book, flipping on bad wigs, acting out Ana's excitable inner goddess and sex-prancing to songs with unprintable words.

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His skills as a behind-the-scenes fixer are widely admired among MPs and activists, not least for the key job he played in helping to oust the Militant Tendency from power in his beloved Liverpool in the 1980s.

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