The fear is that if firms are unable to hire the best talent and convince them to come and work in Hong Kong, they may be forced to shift their operations to other places in the region.
Filipinas, by contrast, who often have high levels of English before they come to Hong Kong, normally rely on English to communicate with their Hong Kong employers, she said.
At 22, Mr. Chadwick is one of the best jockeys to come out the Hong Kong Jockey Club's school for riders.
At a World Economic Forum meeting in Singapore, Yam proudly quoted Barton Biggs, chief global equities strategist for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, as saying he had "come around" to agreeing with Hong Kong on the intervention.
Li had come from Hong Kong to receive the Malcolm S. Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award.
An announcement in August that ordinary Chinese would be allowed to invest in Hong Kong has also raised hopes of still more money to come.
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It is hard to put a finger on where the toughest competition to Hong Kong's status as a financial hub will come from.
No matter how this issue ultimately plays out, it will likely serve as a valuable case study for other luxury brands operating in Hong Kong for years to come.
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The Anglo-French initiative might be seen as populist politics unless major financial centres like New York and Hong Kong come under serious pressure to follow suit.
After leaving Hong Kong in April, the diamond will come to New York and then move on to Rome, Paris, London and Zurich.
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As Oberhelman spoke, a defunct video-distribution company in Hong Kong was finalizing a reverse merger that would come to haunt Caterpillar.
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In addition to the government's efforts to cool the property market, China Xintiandi's IPO would come as other companies are finding it increasingly hard to get their deals done in Hong Kong, the world's busiest venue for IPOs in the three years to 2011.
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Indeed, the territory's financial secretary, Antony Leung, gave warning that the Hong Kong dollar's longstanding peg to the American dollar might come under strain if the SARS outbreak is not resolved soon.
Singapore may field three badminton players at the Commonwealth Games who have come from Indonesia, and Hong Kong could have one, in addition to their former world women's singles quarter-finalist Wang Chen, who crossed the border from China to the former British colony.
Maybe even more so because how many times have I heard visiting designers from New York and Paris say that walking around in Hong Kong and Tokyo is like seeing the pages of Vogue come to life.
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Local interest rates would then rise to punitive levels, banks would come under intolerable strain, and the link between the American dollar and Hong Kong's dollar would be in jeopardy.
In a city where space is hard to come by, the high-ceilinged 5, 200-square-foot gallery is making the statement that Hong Kong is worth the investment.
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