One of the latest to go on the market is the ComPass Card in Hong Kong, which works as a credit card, a bank and supermarket card, and even awards bonus points on the holder's birthday.

CNN: ASIANOW - Asiaweek

On the World Bank's figures, Hong Kong in 2005 was the world's tenth-richest country by gross national income per person at purchasing-power parity.

ECONOMIST: Democracy deferred

The Bank of China is listed on the Hong Kong exchange, where it trades at the very fancy multiple of 25 times trailing net income.

FORBES: Broken China

Joohee An, a portfolio manager at Mirae Asset in Hong Kong sits beside me in a board room in Bank of America tower in midtown on a mild and sunny Friday afternoon.

FORBES: Is The China Consumer Story Overblown?

The stock of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China dropped by 3.2% in Hong Kong yesterday on the news that Goldman Sachs had dumped part of its stake in the Chinese lender.

FORBES: Goldman Dumps Stock of Chinese Bank

Shanghai's Pudong district, across the Huangpu river from the old foreign bank buildings on the Bund, shows just how serious China is: a Hong Kong-style skyline of towering buildings, including one housing the largest stockmarket trading-floor in the world, all of it built in just the past decade.

ECONOMIST: Clouds over Hong Kong

Asia Pacific once received orders on a bank of fax machines along an entire wall of the microprocessor giant's Hong Kong offices.

CNN: MIDDLEMEN, BEWARE

"It's true that SIA's untarnished record now has a blemish on it, " says Kevin O'Connor, a regional airline analyst for Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong.

CNN: After the Crash