Forbes Asia’s Businessman of The Year
Brian Mertens
Dhanin Chearavanont turned Thailand’s CP Group into a global food powerhouse that’s raising rural incomes. Now he’s building China’s biggest megafarms.

Two Brothers Conquer Mongolia’s Free-Market Wild West
David A. Andelman
Two Mongolian brothers have come a long way from selling pelts.

The World’s Greatest Dumplings
Ralph Jennings
The Yang family was running a simple restaurant in Taipei. Then lightning struck in 1993, and today there’s an empire spanning ten countries.

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Companies, People, Ideas

Liu Chuanzhi Has Legend Holdings In His Sights
Russell Flannery
After passing the baton at computer maker Lenovo a second time, China IT icon Liu Chuanzhi wants an IPO for the mother company in 2014.

Walled Off
Andy Greenberg
Strange data emanating from China may be a new tool for net censorship.

China Discovers the Maldives
Ron Gluckman
Talking tourism with the island president.

MGM Resorts Comes Back From Near-Death Experience
Daniel Fisher
Jim Murren’s $8.5 billion CityCenter development nearly bankrupted MGM Resorts, but he’s well on his way to rebuilding the casino operator’s finances.

Africa’s Richest
Kerry A. Dolan
Financiers, retailers and industrialists dominate our debut list.

Ploughshares To Profits
Anuradha Raghunathan
Mallika Srinivasan, India’s tractor queen, looks overseas to drive earnings at TAFE.

Kitchen Cleanup
Anuradha Raghunathan
T.T. Jagannathan entered a pressure cooker at TTK Group but today can savor the results.

Apparel Maker Boshiwa Clothes China’s Kids
Jane Ho
Boshiwa’s foothold in Chinese children’s fare is the nation’s manufacturing story writ small.

Brandix Adapts to Sri Lanka’s Post-Civil War World
Simon Montlake
Ashroff Omar’s Sri Lankan clan has Brandix, the island’s leader in apparel but one that must weigh a wider world.

Overseas Assignment
Andrew Salmon
Korea’s housing market is slumping, so what’s a builder to do? Go global. That’s the mission of Halla CEO Chung Moo-Hyun.

With Vaccines, Bill Gates Changes The World Again
Matthew Herper
Bill Gates is changing the world again through another cheap technology--vaccines. Having prevented millions of deaths, he’s determined to turn Malthus on his head by solving the global population problem.

Indonesia’s 40 Richest

Lasting Value
Pudji Lestari
The Hamami family seeks to construct a business group for generations to come--and get its key-market leadership back.

Indonesia’s Newest Billionaire
Pudji Lestari
An early partnership with one of Indonesia’s best-known businessmen helped jump-start Djoko’s own path to riches.

Technology

Last Call: Can Nokia Compete With Apple And Android?
Elizabeth Woyke
Stephen Elop is trying to save Nokia with new software from Microsoft, his alma mater. Can he compete with Apple and Android?


Issues & Ideas

Why Russia Is The World’s Deadliest Place To Fly
Julia Ioffe
Russia is the most dangerous place to fly in the world. And the problem is less with its Soviet-era planes than its Soviet-era trade policy.