Limiting ourselves to the 50 top firms by market capitalisation we found that Li Ka-shing is there, as are his two sons. Walter Kwok Ping-kong makes it but not his brothers Thomas and Raymond, who actually run the show at Sun Hung Kai Properties. Henderson's Lee Shau-kee, New World's Cheng Yu-tung and Wharf's Peter Woo Kwong-ching are the other representatives of the Big Five developers. Hang Lung's chairman Ronnie Chan Chichung is nowhere to be seen.

David Li Kwok-po of Bank of East Asia rates an entry, as does BOC (HK) chairman Xiao Geng. The local chief of HSBC, Vincent Cheng Hoi-chuen, is missing and so are Hang Seng Bank's Raymond Or Ching-fai and Standard Chartered's Mervyn Davies.

Mainland entries are few. Citic Pacific's Larry Yung Chi-kin is in, as are home appliance king Wang Guangyu and paper queen Zhang Yin. As for non-Chinese business, its only representative is CLP chairman Michael Kadoorie.

Below the level of such people, there are those who either think they deserve inclusion, or have friends who think they do.

There is a very short entry on David Webb, the shareholder activist, accompanied by a warning that in the view of Wikipedia's editors he may not satisfy the 'notability guideline' and could be purged at any time. Now is the time for Webb admirers to make a case for their man. (Note to whoever prepared the current entry: to say that Mr Webb 'was retired' in 1998 makes it sound like he was put out to pasture.)

Interestingly, Wikipedia expresses no doubts as to the notability of Christine Loh, she of the old money and the new ideas, who sits (and is pictured) alongside Mr Webb on the stock exchange board.

talking turkey

Every year at this time US children are taught about the first Thanksgiving in Massachusetts when the newly arrived pilgrims sat down to a feast with the local native tribes. Something of that sort happened yesterday when Wynn Resorts, which operates the newest casino in Macau, invited its staff, expatriate and local, to a sumptuous Thanksgiving lunch. Wynn ordered in 1,200 pounds of turkey and dished out 6,500 servings. Grant Bowie, president of the casino hotel, was so busy talking to his staff that he didn't get to eat until 4pm.

swift justice, indeed

It takes all the running you can do to live up to the expectations of a Hong Kong judge.

On Wednesday Deputy High Court Judge David Gill issued his ruling in the case of a man who sued Hong Kong Tramways for injuries suffered when he was thrown to the floor during a tram ride. The plaintiff contended that the motorman had accelerated too quickly. It took the tram eight seconds to cover 20 metres and reach a speed of 17 kilometres per hour, Judge Gill wrote in dismissing the claim. 'As any driver will know, this is acceleration of a most leisurely kind, from zero to a speed no faster than a steady jogging pace.'

Well, not Lai See's jogging pace, nor that of anyone the Hong Kong Amateur Athletic Association could find in its record books. Running at 17 kph one would cover one kilometre every 3? minutes.