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.
Seven are big-spending Internet content companies, the most well-known being billionaire Li Ka-shing's Tom.com.
Add to that the missing Hutchison Whampoa and other holdings of Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing, long seen as Asia's greatest tycoon.
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%.
In 2011, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd.
Interestingly, one of the players that bid and won a British license is Li Ka-shing's Hutchison Whampoa.
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In woodcarver Li Bing-Gui's workshop, a magnificent gilded dragon altarpiece sat waiting to be transported to the village of Kaoshong.
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.
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.
Elsewhere in the suite is a treadmill, on which 78-year-old Li, who's already had a morning golf round, puts in a 15-minute walk after lunch each day.
Petrova won her first-round tie against compatriot Elena Vesnina, triumphing 4-6 6-2 6-3, while Chinese 13th seed Li Na beat Spain's Beatriz Garcia Vidagany 6-0 6-2 to set up a clash with Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova.
Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man, is lowering prices on apartments developed by his flagship Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd.
Anchor tenants already secured by Li's group include Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Pacific Convergence Corp. (a joint venture between PCG and Intel) and Softbank.
Cellphone maker Motorola is among the start-up's earliest backers and is the world's second-largest buyer of Li-ion batteries.
Tournament favorite and free-hitting left-hander Kvitova, 21, fell to China's Li at the Sydney International Thursday, ending a 14-match winning streak.
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He had also offered his services to Li Ka-shing, Hong Kong's most powerful tycoon.
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.
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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In a semifinal battle between two women who had enjoyed perfect starts to 2013, Radwanska blotted Li's record with a 6-3 6-4 victory on Thursday.
Li-Ning, which has U.S. offices in Chicago and Portland, Ore.
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Earlier this year Mozilla hired away Li Gong, MSN's highest-ranking executive in China, to increase adoption of the Firefox browser in China, where it now has a meager 1% share.
Mattek-Sands followed up her win over China's 2011 champion Li Na by beating Argentine qualifier Paula Ormaechea 4-6 6-1 6-3 to reach the last 16 for the first time, equaling her best showing in a grand slam.
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.
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.
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.
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