To hang ten, or just hang loose, with fellow surfers, living near the best swells and breaks is where following your bliss will lead.

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Terry Matthews wouldn't know "hang ten" from "high five, " but in his office in the farmlands outside Ottawa the transplanted Welshman uses surf imagery for catching the big ones in telecom, as he did in the 1990s at Canada's Newbridge Networks.

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Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index is currently trading at 10.3 times expected earnings, compared with a ten-year average of 14.2 times.

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