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Well, that's that, then.

Typhoon Hagupit, the tally so far: eight dead in the Philippines; locally, sixty injured, three seriously; flights cancelled or delayed; almost everything closed; fallen scaffolding, flooding in the usual places; 100,000 evacuated along the South China coast; Vietnam next.

A little known fact -- outside of the Philippines -- hagupit is Tagalog for "to lash".

Oh, post-Hagupit. Today, a run on Hong Kong's third largest bank, Bank of East Asia: bloomberg

Hong Kong: Dow Jones insider traders?

Punt some of your own money, get your dad to add some more, top it up with money from an anonymous source with a J P Morgan bank account in Brussels. . . keep an eye on the trading screen, and a couple of weeks later look to scoop up US$8.2 million (HK$63,960,000) .

Two Wongs, a Leung and a Li.

Li? That's (Sir) David Li Kwok-po, OBE, chairman and chief executive, The Bank of East Asia.

Plus, LegCo member, and a lot more besides. A lot more: profile

Scrutiny Seen of Trading in Dow Jones: NYT
Prominent in Hong Kong and, Perhaps, in the Dow Jones Inquiry: NYT