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◆Japan's 40 Richest
Tim Kelly
Stock market rebound helps nation's wealthiest recover much of what they had previously lost.

Asia's Youngest Self-Made Billionaire
Tim Kelly
By closely watching Internet giants and hometown rivals, Yoshikazu Tanaka jump-started his social
networking site Gree and amassed a $1.6 billion fortune by age 32.

Taiwan's Device du Jour
Joyce Huang
Prime View International leads the e-reader craze.

Homecoming
Simon Montlake
Hashim Djojohadikusumo returns to Indonesia after a post-Suharto exile.

Ferryman of Tasmania
Lucinda Schmidt
Incat's high-speed ferries shuttle customers around the world.

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◆Companies, People, Ideas

Sweet Agony
Maha Atal
Pakistan is under siege--fundamentally from economic idiocy as manifested at its cherished sugar stalls.

Baby Love
Laurie Burkitt
Parents in China flock to the Internet for information and products. Marketers are thrilled to help them out.

Veteran Korean Banker is Prepping Government-Owned Bank For Sale
Andrew Salmon
What will it take to turn the government-owned and -run Korea Development Bank into a global player?
Wall Street veteran Min Euoo-Sung aims to find out: He plans to take it public next year.

Insights | Science on the Potomac
Peter Huber
Climate modelers funded by U.S. government paymasters have long been engaged in a process of burying key
details in carefully maintained fog.

Digital Tools | Pirates Rule The Seas
Lee Gomes
Defenders of digital content might overplay their hands, alienating the few paying customers they have left.

License to Drill
Cuckoo Paul
From James Bond to Govindo, Rahul Dhir's love for movies is incessant. So is his determination to cut through
adversity and make oil from sand.

Ponzi in Peking
Gady Epstein
China's economy is humming along in high gear, thanks to a fast-growing pile of dicey debt.
Such booms tend to end badly.

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◆Issues & Ideas

When Big Money Doesn't Play Ball
Stephane Fitch, Mike Ozanian and Kurt Badenhausen
Tiger is not the only sports institution suddenly starving for sponsorship dollars.

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◆Money & Investing

Hong Kong Entrepreneur and Investor V-Nee Yeh Starts Fund Companies and Makes Smart Bets.
Shu-Ching Jean Chen
V-Nee Yeh is good at investing and good at starting companies.
In launching a string of fund-management firms in Hong Kong, he's combined these two skills.

Portfolio Strategy | Good News
Ken Fisher
This should be a great time to own stocks. But we forget long-term lessons and think about the recent past.

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◆Sports

Memphis Blues
Tom Van Riper
Michael Heisley has lost a mountain of money running an NBA team using the same strategy that made
him a fortune in private equity.

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◆Marketing

Got Cookies?
Vivian Wai-yin Kwok
Kraft finds a way to sell Oreos and other old favorites to new Chinese customers.

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◆Forbes Asia Life

Share Float
Helen Coster
Gavin McClurg traded job-hopping for the corner office aboard a 57-foot catamaran.