91.   The bank, though based in Britain, mainly operates in the former British colonies in Asia and Africa.

92.   The British colony is still one of the safest cities in the world.

93.   The Chinese government is installing a hand-picked government on the former British colony, supplanting the current, democratically elected leadership.

94.   The Cheng family that founded the garment maker-turned property developer came from the former British colony.

95.   The British colony handles more than half of all trade between the United States and China.

96.   The British colony is the destination of millions of Chinese-made pirated discs each year.

97.   The Celestial Empire was humbled, forced to open five ports to foreign traders and to permit a British colony at Hong Kong.

98.   The former British colony links its currency to the U.S. dollar and rates here move in tandem with those in the United States.

99.   The former British colony is barely five months from its takeover by China, and the people of Hong Kong are still uncertain about what their new master intends.

100.   The former British colony offers a hard-to-beat combination of high salaries, proximity to the mainland and relative academic freedom.