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The recent sale of the last site available for purchase in Victoria Barracks for the sum of HK$1 billion, the highest price ever paid at auction for a piece of land in Hong Kong, the successful Cathay Pacific Airways share flotation, and the continued buoyancy of the Hang Seng

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the

feeling

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felt

in

the

future.

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