The top three most competitive of the 59 ranked economies in 2012 are Hong Kong, the U.S. and Switzerland.
Former central banker Joseph Yam Chi-kwong sent out waves of shock yesterday when he said it was time to reconsider the peg between Hong Kong and U.S. dollars.
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Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, private-sector Chinese entrepreneurs could set up offshore ownership structures in Hong Kong, the U.S. or the Cayman Islands, that through a new Chinese subsidiary would acquire operating business assets in China.
The Guangzhou native went to school in Hong Kong, then came to the U.S., earning a doctorate in bacteriology and biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Japanese stocks climbed for the seventh successive session on Friday, reaching a fresh multiyear high, as the yen fell against the U.S. dollar, while Hong Kong and Australian markets rose after trade figures kicked off China's monthly economic data.
Since the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to its U.S. counterpart, interest rates in the two jurisdictions historically have been much closer together.
YY, which boasts more than 400 million registered users who engage in real-time group activities like karaoke and tutoring through audio, text and video on the free platform, went public in the U.S. rather than in Hong Kong or Singapore because its platform has "global implications, " Chief Executive David Xueling Li said in New York, through a translator.
Customers can trade on both the U.S. and Hong Kong stock markets.
China has been a net rice importer for several years, but sends some amounts of rice elsewhere, including to the U.S. and Hong Kong.
It helped enormously, Ostroff says, that researchers in the U.S. and Hong Kong were able to compare and contrast their results with those in Germany and France.
Two foreign carriers expressed an interest in PAL: Cathay Pacific Airways of Hong Kong and Northwest Airlines of the U.S. When executives from both companies met with Estrada last year, they were accompanied by Manuel Zamora.
Dr. Stohr stresses that hundreds of people in the U.S. and Hong Kong have been tested--people who have never had SARS--and none of them appear to have developed antibodies to SARS or any close relation of it.
The iPhone 5 went on sale Friday morning in Australia and Japan, and releases follow at 8 a.m. local time in Singapore, Hong Kong, France, Germany, the U.K., the U.S. and Canada.
When Kai-Yin Lo returned home to Hong Kong after attending school in Britain and the U.S. in the 1970s, she wasn't an obvious bet to emerge as a success in design.
At least that's the case into the fall of 2007, as Argentina and Peru join traditional economic powers like the U.S., Canada and Hong Kong among the countries with the most robust job outlooks for the third quarter of the year.
The U.S. paper also has a Hong Kong-based edition, known as The Wall Street Journal Asia.
Hong Kong businessman Carson Yeung bought Birmingham City of the U.K.'s Premier League in 2009, and AirAsia Bhd.
"In concept, it's pretty simple, " says Michael Brownrigg, a trade policy officer with the U.S. Consulate-General in Hong Kong.
It didn't help matters that on Friday, the U.S. market fell even though Hong Kong's battered Hang Seng index had rebounded sharply.
Already the Hong Kong listed company has gotten a lot of attention in the U.S. thanks to its famous investor American billionaire Warren Buffett.
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The Sy family not only operates the malls but also controls 30% of the floor space, either through their own in-house retailers or through their franchises of such stores as the U.S.' Ace Hardware and Hong Kong's Watson's drugstores.
Tam left her childhood home in Hong Kong to pursue a love of fashion design in the U.S. and struck it big.
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Growing up, he and his family--his older sister works for Goldman in Hong Kong and his younger sister is a doctor in the U.K.--lived in the sprawling Genting Highlands Resort in the mountains, an hour's drive from Kuala Lumpur.
Coach of the U.S. had a successful secondary listing in Hong Kong last year.
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And after returning from the U.S., he earned a doctorate from Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2011.
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Dickie Wong, executive director of research at Kingston Securities in Hong Kong, said he was optimistic that an agreement on the U.S. debt ceiling would be reached because of the high price tag attached to failing to do so.
The data pushed up Chinese, Hong Kong, and other Asian stocks and even helped U.S. equities.
Nevertheless, despite Asian growth, global equities from Hong Kong to New York are in decline because of the systematic risk stemming from the U.S. and Europe.
It also will go on sale Friday in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Switzerland, the UK and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
While the company has three U.S. projects under development, Taubman has opened a Hong Kong office to search for Chinese prospects.
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