The other two representatives, Ian Reynolds and Wang Li Hong were each supported by 54% of shareholders without the benefit of speaking publicly.
Top seeds Chen Qi and Ma Lin of China beat Ko Lai-chak and Li Ching of Hong Kong 11-6 11-9 7-11 11-8 8-11 11-5 to take the men's doubles gold in table tennis and keep China on track for another Olympic title sweep in Athens.
This is the atmosphere Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and Hong Kong businessman Richard Li want to replicate, in Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong, respectively.
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Li had come from Hong Kong to receive the Malcolm S. Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award.
But eventually, it got the attention of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka Shing.
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In 2011, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing's Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd.
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.
In a notable recent example, Webb in April exposed a complicated deal between the Nasdaq-listed ICG and Hutchison Whampoa, controlled by the Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing.
D'Aloisio started the company when he was 15 and quickly attracted investors, including Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing and Hollywood stars Ashton Kutcher and Stephen Fry.
For all of Italy's sclerosis, it is a telecom battleground, with Britain's Vodafone (nyse: VOD - news - people ) and a venture owned by Hong Kong titan Li Ka-shing among the participants.
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.
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 combination offer has plenty of backers: the Bank of China, Warburg Dillon Read, HSBC, the powerful family of Li Ka-shing and Hong Kong public sentiment (which is wary of the SingTel deal because 76% of that company is owned by the Singapore government's investment arm).
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Add to that the missing Hutchison Whampoa and other holdings of Hong Kong's Li Ka-shing, long seen as Asia's greatest tycoon.
Both the Academy of Sciences and private donors such as Li Ka-shing, a Hong Kong-based billionaire, are dishing out money to make conditions attractive for returning Chinese scholars.
Spotify's owners include billionaire Li Ka-shing, chairman of Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.
In a recent news conference, Mr. Li reflected on the challenging business environment that Hong Kong at times presented for him.
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From his penthouse office 70 stories above Central district, Li Ka-shing commands sweeping vistas of Hong Kong's fabled harbor on one side and its equally renowned Peak on the other.
"Li always told us he makes his money in Hong Kong and gives it back home, " says a Chaozhou official.
Other reformers include the Tata group, India's largest conglomerate, and the companies controlled by Li Ka-shing, the biggest entrepreneur in Hong Kong.
These strands came together in 1999 in the Cyberport project, a property development disguised as an information-technology initiative, negotiated with the Pacific Century Group of Li Ka-shing, the most redoubtable of Hong Kong tycoons.
Li made the greatest part of his fortune betting on Hong Kong when others wouldn't.
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.
Hong Kong-traded shares in money-losing Li Ning, founded by the Chinese Olympian, have lost about 15% in the past year.
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The building is the headquarters of Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing, who owns strike-hit port operator Hong Kong International Terminals.
"Don't quote me on this, but tom.com has a big Li Ka-shing premium attached to it, " says one Hong Kong-based fund manager, who doesn't own the stock but wishes he did.
The container terminal is controlled by Hong Kong billionaire, and Asia's richest man, Li Ka-shing.
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