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Jun. 3, 2010

Competing for Business: Hong Kong v. Singapore

James Wongexplains the advantages of doing business in Hong Kong or Singapore, the top two choices for setting up shop in the Far East.

By James Wong

For U.S. companies setting up operations in the Far East but not in China, there have long been two clear choices for where to situate the regional headquarters: either Hong Kong or Singapore.

These city states have many of the qualities that a company would expect of regional hubs: by dint of their former roles as British colonies, each has an English speaking general population made up of a majority of ethnic Chinese. Their ...

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