"I know it's a big risk to do this, but I still want to try to spread the cycling culture to the Hong Kong people, " Fu said.
"Hong Kong people grow up to be scared of cars because the streets are so narrow, and they're not brave enough to ride a bike around urban areas, " Fu explained.
Wayne Kong Yuk-shan, a branch officer at an Aeon office in the Central business district, says some 100 people, a number of them male, queued every day to apply for the pastel-pink card - and choose their free gift from a selection of Hello Kitty appliances. (These days, the giveaways are Kitty cup noodles and a cushion.) "Hong Kong people are very influenced by Japanese culture, so they like Kitty, " says Kong.
But in Hong Kong, when people think wealth, what comes to mind is real estate.
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Just walk through the main thoroughfares of New York, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong or anywhere people congregate.
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It is for this reason that the few examples of high-tech entrepreneurial activity in Singapore and Hong Kong come from people who were born outside of these countries.
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As with the 1997 outbreak in Hong Kong, those people who have so far been struck by H5N1 seem to have picked it up from direct contact with infected birds.
Dr. Stephanie Kumaria, director of the suicide prevention hotline The Samaritans, says a fifth of the 60 or so calls the group receives each day in Hong Kong are from people despondent about financial reversals.
Dr. Stohr stresses that hundreds of people in the U.S. and Hong Kong have been tested--people who have never had SARS--and none of them appear to have developed antibodies to SARS or any close relation of it.
People in Hong Kong are already starting to plan for when the giant duck leaves on June 9.
He has despatched a dozen or so of his people to Hong Kong to observe how HSBC does retail there.
The report cites a case in which 600 people in Hong Kong became severely ill after eating what they thought was Atlantic cod.
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Hong Kong is a superstitious place where people regularly put out offerings of food and other gifts for dead relatives.
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Hong Kong firms employ more than 11m people in the region and have provided some two-thirds of the foreign direct investment there.
But before Chen arrived in Asia, Wynn needed a guide and mentor when he was seeking backers for his Macau bid in Hong Kong, where he knew few people.
This business group is headquartered in Hong Kong and employs approximately 2, 000 people worldwide.
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Hong Kong's 6.3 million people are 95% Chinese, the majority speakers of the Cantonese dialect.
Hong Kong has found a new group of people to do its housework and diaper-changing: young women escaping the ill fortunes of Indonesia.
In the affluent city-states of Hong Kong and Singapore nearly 40% of people now have mobile phones, the highest penetration in the world outside Scandinavia.
Lau Nai-keung, a Hong Kong member of China's National People's Congress, adds that because of Macau's reliance on tourism, its low tolerance for troublemakers is understandable.
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"In Hong Kong the surprises will be on the positive side because the property market has recovered faster than most people anticipated, " says Simon Irwin, research director at Hong Kong-based Asia Equity.
In 2002 an outbreak of the Sars coronavirus killed about 800 people after it spread from Hong Kong to more than 30 countries around the world.
And Lee is moving more people to Synaptics' new Hong Kong office, where he hopes they can work more hand-in-hand with the big Asian manufacturers that invariably pump out the products.
With importers now getting their dollars in Hong Kong - at the better international rate - the People's Bank is getting landed with even more of them.
It was a simple calculation, Pasuk told an audience at the World Bank meeting in Hong Kong: devalued baht would lose a lot of people a lot of money.
Customs officials discovered people sending iPhones and iPads from Hong Kong to Shenzhen by placing the devices in tote bags and hooking them to a pulley that reached across the border .
Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people ) postponed all business trips to Hong Kong and China's Guangdong province.
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