As early as 1979, after Cheung Kong had acquired colonial-era Hutchison, Li was supplanting the old taipans as a symbol of Hong Kong power and wealth.
One major obstacle that we faced when launching our first project back in Zhongshan was that local buyers and factory investors that were coming in from Hong Kong and Macau had limited purchasing power.
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Huaneng Power gained 4.6% in Hong Kong after reporting late Tuesday that its first quarter net profit almost tripled on-year to 2.55 billion yuan.
If Hong Kong is to retain its status as a major economic power in Asia, everyone is agreed that modernising the archaic education system is essential.
Today, though it holds stakes in publicly traded companies such as Wison Engineering and Weichai Power, the family company is best known in Hong Kong for its real estate and hotels in Asia and Canada.
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Although Singapore Telecom and a partnership between Australia's Telstra and Pacific Century CyberWorks of Hong Kong have multi-country aspirations in Asia, they don't have the borrowing power of Western counterparts.
Horst Julius Pudwill, chairman of Hong Kong-based Techtronic Industries, has emerged as a new billionaire as shares of the power equipment supplier surged by more than 100% in the past year.
King Power once was a public company listed on the American Stock Exchange, with operations in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and Cambodia.
Dr. Dennis Leung, assistant professor at Hong Kong University's Department of Mechanical Engineering, says the innovative design will enable people to harness wind power and reducing greenhouse gases at an affordable price.
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.
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