Being based in Hong Kong you might think that would be the end of the story, but it is not.
You drive from Hong Kong over to Kowloon, you can see a Tencent Weibo billboard that has been there for months.
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We have provided links to Qingdao and Hong Kong, so you can move there with a simple click.
Turn U.S. dollars into Hong Kong dollars, deposit them in a Hong Kong bank and you earn 12% (annualized) for a one-month deposit.
As a visual spectacle, it rivals anything in The Lord of the Rings or King Kong, precisely because you know you're seeing a human being in action.
"It used to be that if you wanted to set up an office in China, you had to go to Hong Kong, hire a lawyer, hire a banker and take them with you to China, " says Coppedge.
In the next 20 years nowhere in Asia, apart from Hong Kong and Singapore, will you have a fully fiber-optic wired backbone in place.
Your local friends, however, will never let you live it down if you visit Hong Kong without partaking of dim sum, which means "touch the heart" in Cantonese.
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' When you try to live off selling 100-Hong Kong-dollar-shirts, it catches up with you.
At some point in Hong Kong, no matter how careful you are to keep to quiet streets, the density of the city will start to close in.
At nearby Jaa Bar, an intimate space designed to feel like a living room with chandeliers and upholstered couches, annual membership costs 888 Hong Kong dollars, but in return you are gifted a bottle of Veuve Clicquot worth almost that much.
Looking ahead two years, the decision to relocate from West to East hinges on whether you believe financial jobs will be easier to find in Hong Kong -- as opposed to London or New York -- and whether you believe you are that much better than the competition.
Tickets are 20 Hong Kong dollars, and they also grant you access to the Heritage Museum's permanent exhibitions.
Still, you would think that Hong Kong would go to say a Hong Kong-born label like Shanghai Tang, a brand that patterns itself after Ralph Lauren, for its uniforms.
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Some restaurants, like the Ning Po Residents Association, require a nominal annual fee (around 200 Hong Kong dollars), but in return you gain access to excellent food (in this case, recipes from the city of Ningbo, near Shanghai, such as delicate, juicy soup dumplings and sweet-and-sour fish), in an exclusive but usually unpretentious setting.
Not surprisingly, once you know him, the Hong Kong places he loves tend toward the classic.
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Hong Kong's compactness and excellent transport means that you can live in the area you want without sacrificing access to restaurants, shopping and nightlife.
Take "Donkey Kong's Crash Course, " which has you tilting the GamePad left or right to steer a rickety roller through a zany Rube Goldberg-ish obstacle course.
Pondering, you reach the water and stare across to Hong Kong Island.
Take the express lift to the 43rd floor from where you will be rewarded with a panoramic view over Hong Kong.
When you are done counting, have a dim sum lunch, something Hong Kong is famous for.
You may look in New York for someone trading in Singapore or Hong Kong.
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"I've got so many proposals for bookstores and CD sites on my desk right now, you wouldn't believe, " says Hanson Cheah, a Hong Kong venture capitalist specializing in online start-ups.
But take a shirt and turn it into an image (a promise of hipness, say), aim it at a specific customer segment (such as young Filipinos in Hong Kong), and display it to them in the right setting and with enthusiastic service, and you have both differentiation and a winning business model.
The first English-language film from the Hong Kong-based director Wong Kar-Wai, and the first to be set in America, makes you wonder whether the trip was worth it.
With much of the signage in English, Hong Kong works well as an Asia 101 introduction (although, compared to the rest of the continent, you will certainly pay for the privilege to explore it).
However, HSBC (what was Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, and one of the largest banks in the world) seems to think that you really, really need to know exactly where the nearest bank branch is.
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"People said you couldn't make money in educational toys, " he says in his modest headquarters in Hong Kong's New Territories.
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