Pedestrians pass a sign with the HSBC logo in Hong Kong on Monday, July 30, 2012. HSBC, the British banking giant, will pay $1.9 billion to settle a money-laundering probe by federal and state authorities in the United States, a law enforcement official said Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
** FILE ** Pedestrians pass a sign with the HSBC logo in Hong Kong on Monday, July 30, 2012. HSBC, the British banking giant, will pay $1.9 billion to settle a money-laundering probe by federal and state authorities in the United States, a law enforcement official said Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
A Christmas tree is displayed at a shopping mall in Hong Kong as the city prepares to celebrate the Christmas holidays on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
From left, members of the new Politburo Standing Committee Zhang Dejiang, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang meet journalists in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
From left, members of the new Politburo Standing Committee Zhang Dejiang, Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang meet journalists in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. The seven-member Standing Committee, the inner circle of Chinese political power, was paraded in front of assembled media on the first day following the end of the 18th Communist Party Congress. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
A North Korean woman walks past the construction site of the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, on Aug. 22, 1990. Work on the 3,000-room pyramidal building, begun almost a decade earlier, was expected to be completed in 1992 after financial problems. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
A North Korean vehicle carrying what appears to be a new missile passes by during a mass military parade in Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Sunday, April 15, 2012, to celebrate the 100th birthday anniversary of Kim, the late North Korean founder. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
A North Korean vehicle carrying what appears to be a new missile passes by during a mass military parade in Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Sunday, April 15, 2012, to celebrate the 100th birthday anniversary of Kim, the late North Korean founder. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson speaks a press conference at the 19th Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia (CLSA) Investors Forum in Hong Kong on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
