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◆Jackie Chan: Philanthropy''s Hardest Working Man
Ron Gluckman
Hong Kong star Jackie Chan races around Asia to brighten a sick child''s day or help disaster victims.

48 Heroes Of Philanthropy
Forbes Asia Staff
From helping earthquake victims to sending poor kids to college, they''re boosting the region in many ways.

Indian Billionaire Shiv Nadar''s Education Plan
Anuradha Raghunathan
Billionaire Shiv Nadar takes the brightest children from the poorest villages of rural India and sends them to boarding school.

Billion-Dollar Givers
Forbes Staff
These 20 tycoons have each donated at least $1 billion.

Enrique Razon''s Shipping Play
Lan Anh Nguyen
Ricky Razon is making a second, and more promising, stab at capturing the shipping trade of the developing world.

Edgar Sia''s Fast-Food Cashout
Phyllis Fang Savage
Edgar Sia''s cash-out of his fast-food chain, Mang Inasal, makes him this year''s youngest lister.

The Philippines'' 40 Richest
Suzanne Name
They are worth a collective $34 billion, up from last year''s $22.8 billion.

IBM At 100
Rich Karlgaard
America''s iconic big tech hits the century mark and $100 billion in sales. Chief Executive Sam Palmisano looks back--and ahead.

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◆Companies, People, Ideas

Bold Bet On Wheat
Tim Treadgold
With prices for the grain at a premium, Western Australia''s John Nicoletti can score big margins on marginal acreage.

Cosmic Landlord
David M. Ewalt
Real estate developer Robert Bigelow believes mankind''s future is in outer space, and he''s betting big on getting there.

Visitors Welcome
Jane Ho
Yuyuan''s mall in Shanghai winningly acquaints tourists and the Chinese staff with one another.

Volkswagen Bugged
Scott DeCarlo
Biggest market-cap loser? Surprise!

Fighting A Russian Billionaire For The Faberge Brand
Nathan Vardi
Viktor Vekselberg and Brian Gilbertson were close business partners--until their relationship cracked over imperial eggs.

To The Max
Amy Yee
Afghans are making the long trek to India for medical treatment, providing healthy results for both patients and providers.

Guy Laliberte: On Being the First Clown in Space
As told to Steven Bertoni
That moment they light the fuse under your butt it''s a sense of total freedom, because I knew then nobody could get me out.

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◆Entrepreneurs

Beating A New Path For Commuters
Helen Coster
Alison Cohen wants to change the way we travel by renting thousands of bikes--where and when we need them.

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◆Issues & Ideas

Wealth Creation
Kerry A. Dolan
Scornful of foreign aid, Leila Chirayath Janah helps poor people overseas land work for U.S. tech companies.

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◆Investing

Investing On the Frontier
Keren Blankfeld
Geritz and Edgley are the Lewis and Clark of global investing, uncovering stocks in parts of the world Wall Street ignores.

Tech On The Cheap
Kerry A. Dolan
Do you like tech stocks but hate how they''re priced? Consider chip stocks.

Intrinsic Value | Finding Value In Commodities
John Buckingham
Buying commodity-related dividend-paying stocks.

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◆Forbes Asia Life

The Future Of Wine
Mike Veseth
China''s vineyards will compete with the Old World and the New--eventually.