Even Richard Li and his Pacific Century group seem slow off the mark in the Net world.

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These strands came together in 1999 in the Cyberport project, a property development disguised as an information-technology initiative, negotiated with the Pacific Century Group of Li Ka-shing, the most redoubtable of Hong Kong tycoons.

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It is not really eight months old it just looks that way because Mr Li bought a small local firm called Tricom Holdings last May and used it to list the Internet ventures of his existing property conglomerate, the Pacific Century Group, which until then was best-known for winning a sweetheart deal from Hong Kong's government to build an industrial park.

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