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◆China's 400 Richest
Russell Flannery
The nation's wealthiest are gaining against their U.S. counterparts.

Growing to the Sky
Russell Flannery
A canny Beijing commercial developer is among those riding China's widening capital markets to
lofty valuations.

Beverage Billionaire
Russell Flannery
Zong Qinghou, whose drink maker Wahaha won a bitter dispute against former joint venture partner
Danone, jumps up to number three in the ranks.

Big Korean Construction Company Ranges Far From Home
Andrew Salmon
The Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore may be Kim Suk-joon's crowning achievement.

Wal-Mart Comes to India
Malini Goyal, Indrajit Gupta and Neelima Mahajan-Bansal
The world's largest retailer has gotten a good footing in the holy city of Amritsar.

When Smoke Gets in Your Wine
Tim Treadgold
An Australian company's technology fixes flaws in grapes. Will purists approve?

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◆Companies, People, Ideas

Black Future
Gady Epstein
The coal bosses of Shanxi are tired of being the government's whipping boys.

Amnesia
Bernard Condon
A surfeit of money has led to loony prices in the financial markets. Sound familiar?

Follow-Through | Harvard: Not Smart
Nathan Vardi
Harvard University's recently released financial report shows its endowment unloading assets
while values were dropping in the credit crisis.

Riches in Enrichment
Jonathan Fahey
GE is trying to blast into the business of making nuclear reactor fuel with lasers.

Insights | The Carbon Con Game
Peter Huber
Since nobody can track twigs and cowpats, China's carbon accountants can make its renewable
numbers come out anywhere they like.

Living Without Blockbusters
Matthew Herper
Sanofi-Aventis' Christopher Viehbacher is slashing R&D and moving into emerging countries.

Blogarithms
Jon Bruner
A graduate math seminar.

Building A Polyester Giant
Suzanne Nam
Thai transplant Aloke Lohia widens his reach in a wonder resin.

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◆Technology

A Zure Thing?
Quentin Hardy
Microsoft thinks it can sell big companies on its new cloud computing program, Azure. Or is it
a pie in the sky?

Digital Tools | A Crystal Ball For Windows 8
Lee Gomes
What in Windows 7 will Microsoft be fixing when it releases Windows 8 in 2011 or 2012?

Cisco Faces a Trojan Horse
Andy Greenberg
Since the dot-com bust 3Com has been taking Chinese lessons.

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◆Money & Investing

Doctor Doom | Capital Controls
Nouriel Roubini
The relatively open Asian Tigers are not likely to impose capital controls. Singapore and Hong Kong
will delay rate hikes.

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◆Wireless

Nokia's Emerging Hope
Jessica Tan
Jawahar Kanjilal scours emerging markets for new service opportunities.

Battling For The Brains Of Cellphones
Joyce Huang
Chip designer MediaTek aims to expand outside of the copycat phone market.

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◆Health

Finding the Next Epidemic Before It Kills
Robert Langreth
Nathan Wolfe chases killer microbes.