Add to that the missing Hutchison Whampoa and other holdings of Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing, long seen as Asia's greatest tycoon.
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.
Denmark's Moeller-Maersk, Singapore government investment agency Temasek Holdings and Li Ka-Shing's Hutchison Whampoa were also rumored to be potential bidders for the ferries group.
In 2011, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd.
Seven are big-spending Internet content companies, the most well-known being billionaire Li Ka-shing's Tom.com.
Interestingly, one of the players that bid and won a British license is Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa.
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Now SingTel seems to be about to snatch a small prize away from Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa and Singaporeans are so jubilant that they are making a big deal out of it.
Aside from convenience stores and some niche sellers, the territory's supermarket business is controlled by two huge chains: Park'n Shop, the stores owned by Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa Group, and Wellcome, which belongs to Asia's biggest grocer, Jardine Matheson-controlled Dairy Farm.
Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Telecom, in India since 1992, decided in 2000 to partner with Essar Group's Shashi and Ravi Ruia, ambitious brothers who had turned a small family construction business into a conglomerate with interests in shipping, steel, oil and gas.
Even the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, Robert Dole (R-KA), seemed susceptible to this siren's song in an interview last night on CNN.
Whether it's Gogo's exclusive air to ground and ATG-4 technologies, SES's Ku-band satellites or, Inmarsat's Global Xpress Ka-band satellite technologies, we plan to offer a full range of connectivity solutions for any aircraft mission.
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Although the Ka-band service's 4Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream speeds won't have anyone dropping their 330Mbps fiber anytime soon, the pay-as-you-go strategy will let travelers and rural dwellers get broadband in a pinch, no matter how spotty terrestrial access might get.
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"The Google crisis response team has assembled a Hurricane Sandy map to help you track the storm's progress and provide updated emergency information, " wrote Google software engineer Ka-Ping Yee on the firm's blog.
Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man, is lowering prices on apartments developed by his flagship Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd.
Richard's Dad, Li Ka-shing, owns Cheung Kong, which controls half of Hutchison Whampoa, which in turn owns Hutchison, Hong Kong's biggest cellular phone company.
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The preponderance of that Hutchison name signals one thing: Chi-Med has a very powerful backer in Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man and chairman and dominant shareholder of the globe-spanning conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa.
The container terminal is controlled by Hong Kong billionaire, and Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing.
Spotify's owners include billionaire Li Ka-shing, chairman of Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.
He had also offered his services to Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's most powerful tycoon.
Here was the region's richest resident, Li Ka-shing, tying the milestones of his 78 years to a crowning wish.
The building is the headquarters of Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing, who owns strike-hit port operator Hong Kong International Terminals.
Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing dropped out of school at age 15, after his father died, to work in a factory.
Hutheesing also notes that Li Ka-Shing is Hong Kong's largest provider of mobile phone service and one of its largest real estate developers.
And there is the small matter of his father, Li Ka-Shing, Hong Kong's richest tycoon and a force in telecoms thanks to his ownership of Hutchinson Whampoa, which last year made a fortune selling its stake in the Orange mobile network in Britain to Germany's Mannesmann.
From his penthouse office 70 stories above Central district, Li Ka-shing commands sweeping vistas of Hong Kong's fabled harbor on one side and its equally renowned Peak on the other.
Other reformers include the Tata group, India's largest conglomerate, and the companies controlled by Li Ka-shing, the biggest entrepreneur in Hong Kong.
Feisty Ruias are reportedly fighting partner Li Ka-shing over their biggest asset, 33% stake in Hutchison Essar, India's third-largest mobile phone operator in which Li's Hutchison Whampoa owns 67%.
Referring to one of the show's many in-jokes, comedian Dave Gorman simply wrote: "Ulrika-ka-ka-katastrophe!"
Li Ka-Shing is playing host on the top floor of his cheung kong Center tower in Hong Kong's Central.
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