Signing up Li Ka-shing as one of its investors will certainly help put SecondMarket on the map in Asia.

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Not that long ago, the local press would refer to the richest tycoon, Li Ka-shing, as Superman.

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About a dozen times per shopping trip, the device lets out a "Ka-ching" as an electronic coupon appears on the screen.

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Both the Academy of Sciences and private donors such as Li Ka-shing, a Hong Kong-based billionaire, are dishing out money to make conditions attractive for returning Chinese scholars.

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Add to that the missing Hutchison Whampoa and other holdings of Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing, long seen as Asia's greatest tycoon.

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This rush into luxury cars is driven by the fragmentation that created sport-utilities in America, compact minivans (people carriers) in Europe and small European town cars, such as Ford's Ka.

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Just consider that among the 800 select is one Li Ka--shing, not to mention other billionaires such as Thomas Kwok and Peter Woo.

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These strands came together in 1999 in the Cyberport project, a property development disguised as an information-technology initiative, negotiated with the Pacific Century Group of Li Ka-shing, the most redoubtable of Hong Kong tycoons.

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Their stories of triumph and tribulation have been chronicled as cover stories in FORBES ASIA in the past year, including features on Li Ka-shing, Steve Wynn, Teresita Sy-Coson, Simon and Eleanor Kwok, Vincent Tan, Shyam and Hari Bhartia, as well as Morris Chang, the FORBES ASIA Businessman of the Year in 2012.

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