As overseas investors divert funds from overbought Wall Street to Hong Kong, Wharf's stock price has been inching up.

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When most people think of Singapore, if they do at all, they think of an order-obsessed Asian version of Wall Street or London's Canary Wharf, only with implausibly clean, sterile streets and no crime.

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But even so, he would have bet five to one his future lay somewhere between that wall on Powell Street and the foot of Columbus -- Fisherman's Wharf.

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