Mr. Wheatley, a Briton who spent 18 years at the London Stock Exchange before taking the Hong Kong post in 2005, said the problems with Chinese companies listing outside their home jurisdiction, including those that list in Hong Kong, were exacerbated by the fact that regulators seeking more information about a company rely on third-party investigators.
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But racing is also an international sport, with British, Irish and French contenders in the Dubai World Cup meeting in March, in the Breeders Cup series in America in the autumn and in the Hong Kong Festival meeting in December.
He listed the company in Hong Kong in 2006 after Singapore rejected the listing and the stock price has been climbing ever since (he still controls more than half of it).
But thanks to the Hong Kong Arts Centre in Hong Kong's Wan Chai neighbourhood, Fu finally found an affordable, centrally-located spot to host the festival.
While Khan's company Atria has big plans, it is in the minority in Hong Kong, not only in terms of the size of its property portfolio, but also in the attitude to incorporating environmental concerns in building projects.
Great Eagle is planning to list the Hong Kong hotels in the third quarter, one of the people said Friday, encouraged by gains in the stock market and Chinese insurer People's Insurance Co. (Group) of China Ltd.
True, the U.S. got a jolt in late October when a sharp fall in the Hong Kong stock market sparked a big plunge in the Dow Jones index.
Banks in Hong Kong have not made as big provisions and the recession in Hong Kong hasn't yet ended.
Given the frequency with which the disease crops up in Hong Kong, the government may be justified in not taking any chances.
Bankers believe China will continue to be a major force in 2011, even though a spate of IPOs were postponed toward the end of the year in Hong Kong.
Occupying three floors of the simply named Academic Building No. 1 of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in the New Territories, the Institute of Mathematical Sciences started slowly.
Wong had grown up in the same district, one of the poorest in Hong Kong, and had also dropped out of school to find work.
The company listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange in 2010, becoming the first French business to do so.
Flip on the ignition of a highly charged, tip-top, ready-to-roll Land Rover in Vienna and cruise in a convoy all the way to Hong Kong in an amazing driving adventure.
The tantalum price in Hong Kong is roughly within transport costs of the price in Rotterdam, on the other side of the world.
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At the heart of the industry in Hong Kong is the not-for-profit Jockey Club, which last year contributed about 7% of the city's tax revenue and is one of its largest employers.
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Hong Kong entertainment czar Allan Zeman, whose advice and contacts in the Hong Kong business world helped casino magnate Steve Wynn open the posh Wynn Macau resort in 2006, has resigned from the board of Wynn Resorts this month.
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Gupta had been flying back from Adobe's annual planning powwow in San Jose, California and heard the news when he got off the plane in Hong Kong.
Gupta had been flying back from Adobe's annual planning powwow in San Jose, Calif. and heard the news when he got off the plane in Hong Kong.
Caterpillar first announced its offer to take ERA private (it traded in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange) back in November 2011.
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Such markets were the source of the first known outbreak in Hong Kong in 1997 when 20% of the chickens in live poultry markets were infected.
Eni Lestari is the chairwoman of the Association of the Indonesian Migrant Workers in Hong Kong, and has lived in the city for 12 years.
The latest evidence of the bullishness in Hong Kong housing came from Sino Land on Tuesday.
Although every region has its own version, many consider those found in Hong Kong the best in the world.
Sorvino's boyfriend is Pulp Fiction director Quentin Tarantino, probably the original Hong Kong film junkie in the American entertainment industry.
The trust is using the IPO proceeds to fund the purchase of its first two assets, The Festival Walk retail and office development in Hong Kong and the Gateway Plaza office building in Beijing.
"We have been very impressed with Rowan's contribution to the game in Hong Kong and have no hesitation in inviting him to be part of our squad, " Derek Quinnell, team manager of the Barbarians, or Baa-Baas, said in a statement following Varty's selection last month.
The increasing numbers of wealthy Chinese, Indians and Indonesians are helping fuel the shift to low-tax Asian centers, according to the report, with Hong Kong in a strong position to benefit from the Chinese government's moves to free-up international trade in China's yuan and the growing number of Chinese millionaires looking for a safe place to invest their money.
At the moment there may be no more exciting markets in the world than those in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen.
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It is the first confirmed case of the virus in Hong Kong, local medical officials said.
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