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◆Special Report: Asia's Fab 50
Scott DeCarlo
Our sixth annual ranking of the best of Asia-Pacific's biggest listed companies.

Bringing a Lot To the Table
Anuradha Raghunathan
Shikha Sharma didn't get the top job at India's ICICI Bank. Axis Bank is glad for that.

Sichuan Gusto
Brian Mertens
Chengdu's Dongfang Electric didn't let a devastating earthquake stop it. The global power industry needed more turbines.

More Than A Middleman
Hana R. Alberts
Digital China aims to be the Middle Kingdom's IBM--not just its laptop and cellphone distributor.

Golden Cow
Gady Epstein
First China Mengniu Dairy was a triumph of branding. Then it had to improve the product.

Miner on The Move
Susan J. Cunningham
Thailand's Banpu digs for coal and generates power. And no one else in Asia is better at it.

Kicking The Habit
Indrajit Gupta and T. Surendar
Y.C. Deveshwar is determined to give ITC a life beyond tobacco. He will need that to secure the company's future--and his own.

Companies To Watch
Forbes Asia Staff
Given their solid showing of late, these 12 companies are strong candidates to appear on our future Fab 50 listings.

Who Runs Asia's Fab 50?
John Koppisch and Scott DeCarlo
The bosses of the best, big, public companies in Asia.

Sections
A Long Look Back
America's Best Colleges
Issues & Ideas

Front & Back
Sidelines
Readers Say
Fact And Comment
Current Events
Digital Rules
Thoughts

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◆A Long Look Back

Happy Anniversary
The Editors
Ten years ago we started printing in Asia. It has been a decade of momentous change: not just the rise of China and India but also the eclipse of Japan.

Who Wants to be a Crorepati?
Naazneen Karmali
One of our longtime staffers in Mumbai reflects on Asia's emergence in the past decade.

Betting on Big
Shu-Ching Jean Chen
The Lui family will raise the stakes in Macau next year when it finally opens its mega casino resort.

Lessons From the Frontier
Russell Flannery
One of our longtime staffers in Shanghai reflects on Asia's emergence in the past decade.

Mute Wonder
mark clifford
If this is the Asian century, where is Asia's media voice?

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◆America's Best Colleges

$200,000 to Get Into Harvard
Gady Epstein
Inside a prep program for the children of China's rich.

Top of the Class
Edited by David M. Ewalt
The best college in America isn't in Cambridge or Princeton, West Point or Annapolis. It's in the Berkshire Mountains.

America's Best Colleges
Edited by David M. Ewalt
Forbes' list of public and private colleges and universities ranks the best schools--from the students' point of view.

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◆Issues & Ideas

Obama's Problem With Business
Dinesh D'Souza
The President isn't exactly a socialist. So what's driving his hostility to private enterprise?