The turning-point came when Mr Estrada called in Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific to help out.
While Megaupload was based in Hong Kong, Mr. Dotcom lived in New Zealand.
In 1957, when flu swept through Hong Kong, Mr Hilleman identified the virus as a new form to which people had no natural immunity and passed on his findings to vaccine-makers.
During his time in Hong Kong, Mr. Wheatley, 52 years old, earned a reputation as a proactive enforcer, combating insider trading and other market misconduct, as well as boosting the commission's standing in Hong Kong and abroad.
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Hong Kong movies, Mr Bordwell submits, must be seen in a different way from western ones.
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Overall, one left impressed by the ability of a relatively unknown Hong Kong businessman (Mr. Kingwai Chan) to pull off such a gala symposium.
"I will use it to trade stocks back in Hong Kong, " said Mr. Chu.
Mr. Wang spoke with Emily Veach in Hong Kong about the challenges of winning brand loyalty in Asia's varied markets as well as how he retains quality staff, no small task in the retail business.
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Mr. Dotcom later started a new life in Hong Kong, where he was the mastermind behind Megaupload, among other businesses.
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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Sir Robert Ho Tung, a powerful half-English magnate whose commercial empire straddled Shanghai and Hong Kong, commissioned a Shanghai home from Mr. Hudec, who gave it a south-facing porch with graceful Ionic columns.
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One of the group's 25 business units, Alibaba.com, an e-commerce platform for small businesses, went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2007, before Mr. Ma took it private again last year. (The rest of the group's units, including Taobao, Tmall and Alipay, have never gone public.) The financial crisis hurt Alibaba.com, he says, and it needed major changes.
Andrew Zlot, a Hong Kong hedge-fund manager, invested in Mr. Ramini's operation, then quit his job and last month starting working on the farm.
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Ms. Lam and Mr. Bourne had done major renovations before in Boston and Hong Kong, but this time they faced the challenge of being unable to speak directly with contractors.
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Mr. Zirinsky also allegedly tipped his father and a friend in Hong Kong who in turn tipped another friend, whose wife traded on the information, the SEC said.
The monetary authority, says Mr Miller, should sell convertible bonds which, if denominated in Hong Kong dollars, carry an option for the holder to convert into American dollars at the set rate.
Mr Yeung worked in England as a teenager before becoming a hairstylist in Hong Kong.
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Mr Dotcom holds German and Finnish passports, and is a resident of Hong Kong and New Zealand.
At 22, Mr. Chadwick is one of the best jockeys to come out the Hong Kong Jockey Club's school for riders.
Mr Yeung worked in the UK as a teenager before becoming a hairstylist in Hong Kong.
He said he had also been informed by the lawyers that Mr Yeung was assisting with inquiries that had nothing to do with BIHL in Hong Kong and therefore nothing to do with the operation of club.
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Hong Kong retained its top ranking for the 18th consecutive year, but Mr Feulner said that Singapore "was narrowing the gap".
Mr Kohrt, Kodak's number three, even moved his operations permanently to Hong Kong as part of the corporate assault on China.
Yet Mr Zhang has just lost a long fight to reward his managers with shares via a Hong Kong listing.
Mr. Wheatley emphasized the need for investment banks and brokerages that underwrite share listings in Hong Kong to take greater responsibility for keeping substandard companies at bay.
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The men shipped the cigarettes from Dubai through Hong Kong rather than a direct route to the UK, to avoid suspicion, Mr Paltenghi said.
"The idea was to create a space without using walls, " said the younger Mr. Lim, who designed the piece with Mr. Kim and Eddy Man Kim, their third partner who is planning to move to Hong Kong soon.
The elder Mr. Gouw was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, went to university in Shanghai and moved to Hong Kong.
Mr Tung pledges to supply 85, 000 new homes a year, and wants 70% of Hong Kong's householders to own their own homes within a decade.
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