1.   As a result, Chiang holds a chunk of mainland companies, or red chips.

2.   Asia Tech Ventures, a venture-capital firm in Hong Kong, has shunned mainland Internet companies, focusing instead on Hong Kong and Taiwan.

3.   But the economic stability of Culebra and dozens of other towns with subsidiaries of mainland companies does not come cheap.

4.   Markets remain open to foreign businesses and legal cases against mainland companies are tried in courts without any visible prejudice.

5.   Mainland companies are buying property like never before, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new offices.

6.   Nine months before this British colony returns to Chinese rule, mainland companies are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on new offices.

7.   No matter that the bank, which is owned by the Arab Banking Corp. and a mainland Chinese company, was on firm footing.

8.   One of the other bidders was a subsidiary of mainland Chinese company Guangzhou Investment Co. Ltd.

9.   Some investors fear that the financial crisis may spread to mainland Chinese companies that are publicly listed on the Hong Kong market.

10.   That was when mainland companies would buy a floor of an office building and re-sell it months or even weeks later at a hefty profit.