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◆The World's Billionaires
Edited by Luisa Kroll and Matthew Miller
Carlos Slim Helu takes the No. 1 spot on Forbes' annual list of the world's richest as a record 164 billionaires return to the ranking amid the global economic recovery.

Slumdog Billionaires
Megha Bahree
A father and son are making a fortune rehabbing some of the worst neighborhoods in Mumbai. It's not a pretty business.

High-Rise Anxiety
Gady Epstein
Zhang Xin and her husband are the most familiar faces of a real estate boom in China. That doesn't make them a popular couple.

Big Man In Brazil
Keren Blankfeld
Eike Batista rode the commodities boom to become the richest guy in his country. He aims to keep going.

The Hard Man of Russia
Anita Raghavan
Already big in steel, Alisher Usanov can now claim to be his nation's largest player on the Web.

Pay Czech Lender
Tatiana Serafin
Petr Kellner brings consumer finance to not-so-communist Asia.

Hollywood Heavyweight
Keren Blankfeld
Arnon Milchan has made it big in pictures--as well as in arms sales, investing and fertilizer.

None Of Your Business
Kai Falkenberg
Do rich folk get special treatment regarding the privacy of their court cases? A case study involves the chairman of Estee Lauder.

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◆The World's Richest People

Chinese Tigresses
Russell Flannery
Seven self-made female Billionaires have struck it rich on China's mainland.

Double Shot
Steven Bertoni
Billionaires benefit from surging currencies and rising stock markets.

In Pictures: Biggest Billionaire Gainers
Katie Evans
Several of last year's biggest losers are this year's biggest gainers.

In Pictures: The Richest People In The World
Luisa Kroll and Matthew Miller
These titans control entire swaths of the global economy, from energy and steel to fashion and telecom.

Dumb Money
Dirk Smilie
Sailing on soda bottles. Cloning cats. Creating clouds from seawater. Not all investments by the tech wealthy pan out.

Biggest Billionaire Comebacks
Claire Obusan
A record 164 moguls return to the ranks after having fallen off. Here are the year's top 10 richest returnees.

In Pictures: Cost Of Living Large
Claire Obusan
A look at how these cities compare when it comes to living the billionaire lifestyle.

Middle Eastern Mirage
Devon Pendleton
Dubai's spectacular collapse has destroyed vast fortunes and exposed the dangers of doing business in the Golf. What have investors learned?

Back on Top
Duncan Greenberg
Hedge fund managers who made a big comeback.

Nonrefundable Deposit
Keren Blankfeld
How Mikhail Prokhorov's $53 million house payment became a charitable donation.

In Pictures: Billionaire Drop-Offs
Steven Bertoni
Not everybody got richer during the global recovery.

Obituaries: Remembering 13 Billionaires Who Died
Cristina von Zeppelin
Thirteen billionaires have died since we published our 2009 list.

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◆Australia's 40 Richest
Allison Fass
Fortunes down under are way up, thanks to a strong Australian dollar and recovering economy.

Billionaire Truck Driver Lindsay Fox
Lucinda Schmidt
Lindsay Fox's company had its best year ever and helped raise the Australian's worth to $1.5 billion.

Mining for Jobs
Tim Treadgold
Billionaire Andrew Forrest aims to use his wealth to help Australia's indigenous population.

Former Peninsula Manager Starts His Own Charity Fund
Hana R. Alberts
Infuriated by a wasted donation, Peter Gautschi started his own charity.

Deploying An Infosys Fortune
Anuradha Raghunathan
Armed with a fortune from Infosys, Rohini Nilekani is intent on helping India's poor.

Malaysia's Telecom Billionaire Gives Back
Brian Mertens
Malaysian Ananda Krishnan develops his country's talent behind the scenes.

In Pictures: 48 Heroes of Philanthropy
Forbes Staff
From helping disaster victims to funding soup kitchens, they make our latest regional list.

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◆Companies, People, Ideas

India's Telecom Giant Bharti Heads West
Shishir Prasad, Malini Goyal and Rohin Dharmakumar
Sunil Mittal's African adventure.

Don't Read My Lips
Christopher Helman
President Obama's call for development in Ghana fell flat for a Houston firm.

Keeping The Water Out
Kerry A. Dolan
Trying out a new form of concrete.

Digital Tools | Three Questions For Steve Jobs
Lee Gomes
The iPad has fewer capabilities than a netbook, in a similar size. Not a good start.

Pakistan: Harnessing Sun, Water And Fossil Fuel
Megha Bahree
Lahore native Nadeem Bbar brings his energy ambitions back to bear on Punjab's power shortage.

Aravind Eye Care's Vision for India
Naazneen Karmali
Cheap eye care for the needy in South India.

The World's Top Sports Events
Peter J. Schwartz
Which is the most lucrative athletic battle?

Green Genes
Matthew Herper
Are genetically modified crops eco-friendly?

China's Porn Trick
Gady Epstein
China imports much of its pornography, which gives authorities a chance to attack Internet freedom.

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◆Entrepreneurs

Malaysia's King of Mini-Marts
Noelle Lim
Malaysian Lee Thiam Wah gives the big retailers a run for their money.

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◆Technology

A Star Is Reborn
Dorothy Pomerantz
How the next generation of digital filmmaking will change Hollywood--and acting--forever.

Reality Mobile's Spy Phone Tech
Christopher Helman
Reality Mobile turns your handset into networked snoop gear.

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◆Issues & Ideas

Is al Qaeda Bankrupt?
Nathan Vardi
Desperate for funds, the terrorist group has turned to affiliates that rely more and more on crime.

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◆Hong Kong's 40 Richest
Russell Flannery
Hong Kong's wealthiest are now worth $135 billion, up from $82 billion a year ago but still well below the peak of $179 billion in 2008.

Close Call
Russell Flannery
Vincent Lo, No. 19 on our list of Hong Kong's wealthiest, rethinks his strategy.

Happiness and Hazelnuts
David A. Andelman
Daniel Spitzer digs into Bhutan's soil to make a profit and sustain livelihoods.

Biggest Thai Home Builder Moving Abroad to Expand Company
Brian Mertens
Thailand's property king is moving into India and Vietnam.

Global Debt Bomb
Daniel Fisher
Leverage is all over the map and creating a lot of painful scenarios.

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◆Companies, People, Ideas

Growing Bearish
Robyn Meredith
U.S. companies despair of doing normal business in China.

Local Chains Sitting Out Hotel and Travel Boom in Malaysia
Ioannis Gatsiounis
Malaysia's growing travel industry.

On the Fly
Naazneen Karmali
A chat with HDFC's Keki Mistry.

Aunty Networks
Megha Bahree
A daughter of Indian immigrants shakes up New York City politics.

Shaky Ground
Tiffany M. Luck and Dan Bigman
Cities that are the most vulnerable to quakes.

The Entrepreneur Clinic
Steven Bertoni
Pet food billionaire Clay Mathile's $130 million bet on small business.

Here Come the Viet Gamers
Rebecca Fannin
Can IDG add its Tencent magic to a mini-Shanda?

Cognizant Technology's Early Fix
Mitu Jayashankar and N.S. Ramnath
Francisco D'Souza takes a second look at Cognizant Technology Solutions' winning formula.

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◆Technology

Storage Hits the Family Room
Lee Gomes
Disk-drive companies are betting on a new breed of gadgets.

The Electric Car Battery Glut
Joann Muller
Will electric-car batteries go bust from overcapacity?

Holy Cow
Matthew Herper
Genomics has revolutionized dairy farming.

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◆Money & Investing

The Profit Principle
David K. Randall
Nicholas Kaiser got into Islamic investing by accident, but there's nothing haphazard about his Amana funds.

Global Gambits | Power Play
Carl Delfeld
The rebirth of nuclear power is a global investment theme--and Asia is the center of the action.

The New Normal
Peter C. Beller and Michael Maiello
Pimco says it's time to load up on stocks.

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◆Forbes Asia Life

Hong Kong Restaurateur Learns About Buzz
Ron Gluckman
David Yeo learns the pleasures and perils of the hospitality business in Hong Kong, Beijing and London.

Shopping and a Mammogram
Hannah Alberts
Health care screening goes upscale in China.

Slip-Sliding Along
Eric Arnold
USA Luge's Lake Placid Fantasy Camp allows fans of the sport to test their mettle.

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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.

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◆21st Century Tai-Pan
Robyn Meredith
Richard Elman has re-created, in outsize fashion, the trading house where he first made his mark in Asia.

Indonesia's 40 Richest
Suzanne Nam
The nation's stock market rally helped its wealthiest tycoons double their fortunes to a record $42 billion.
Only China's richest did as well this year.

Coal Man
Suzanne Nam
Low Tuck Kwong joined the billionaire ranks by digging coal out of some of the most inaccessible mines in the world.

TWG's Ritzy Tea
Jessica Tan
A Singapore duo's haute blends heat up a familiar beverage.

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◆Companies, People, Ideas

The Big Gulp
Megha Bahree
India's MEIL is awash with business as it undertakes a massive irrigation project.

On the Fly | The Next Gorilla
Naazneen Karmali
Anand Mahindra explains why India's growth story is no mirage.

The Governor and the Fundraiser
Nathan Vardi
New Mexico's Bill Richardson's link to an alleged bank-loan schemer.

Bull-in-Chief
Daniel Fisher
The U.S. President could use a Bill Clinton-style stock market rally.

Yard Sale
Daniel Fisher
Forget growth--General Electric's Jeff Immelt is on a mission to raise cash now.

Everest Kanto's Iran Problem
Anuradha Raghunathan
India's Everest Kanto Cylinder and its Iran problem.

Power at the Nano Scale
Oliver Chiang
Yet-Ming Chiang's battery design has silenced skeptics.

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◆Entrepreneurs

Snack Attack
Christopher Steiner
Cantaloupe Systems brings order to vending's chaos.

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◆Technology

The Company Behind Your Laptop
Elizabeth Woyke
Wistron's Simon Lin is reinventing the contract-manufacturing business model.

Acer's Mobile Gamble
Elizabeth Woyke
The Taiwanese computer maker bets big on smart phones.

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◆Issues & Ideas

Nuclear-Lite
Jonathan Fahey
One small power merchant thinks it can revive the faltering U.S. nuclear renaissance.

Tree Hugger
Nicole Perlroth
Blairo Maggi was once the jungle's least likely savior. He's had a conversion.

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◆Money & Investing

Point of View | Income During Inflation
Steve H. Hanke
Bonds are a risky venture when inflation is set to explode at any moment. Play it safe. Go for dividends.

Portfolio Strategy | The Old Normal
Ken Fisher
A decade ahead of lackluster earnings and economic growth? Don't believe that rubbish.

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◆Health

The Stent Man
Rohin Dharmakumar
Vinod Ramnani wants to win the heart of the largest medical devices in the world.

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◆India's 100 Richest

Naazneen Karmali
India's richest top their Chinese counterparts when it comes to the size of their fortunes.

Strong Signal
Naazneen Karmali
Kalanithi Maran has built Sun TV into one of Asia's hottest media outfits and made himself worth more
than $2 billion in the process.

Iskandar
Ioannis Gatsiounis
Bill Ch'ng plans endless attractions to draw Singaporeans across the border to Malaysia.

Condo Boss
Lan Anh Nguyen
Doan Nguyen Duc is determined to set the mark for wealth creation in Vietnam.

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◆Companies, People, Ideas

Desktop Bug Detector
Kerry A. Dolan
Tiny Helixis is riding the swine flu wave to sell its smaller, cheaper DNA machine.

China Slump Redux?
Gady Epstein
The economy is overheating and inventories are piling up.

Going Rogue
Nathan Vardi
Jason Papastavrou stirs up the hedge fund world.

Starting Up
Hannah Seligson
Ye Tian, all of 29, is one of China's many ambitious entrepreneurs.

Master Banker, Master Schmoozer
Anita Raghavan
How JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon is trying to shape the outcome of regulatory reform.

Backseat Driver | When Small Cars Don't Sell
Jerry Flint
It's an economic contradiction to order the industry to build small cars but not encourage people to buy them.

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◆Technology

Digital Tools | Netflix's Law: The Future Of Software
Lee Gomes
For hardware, there's Moore's Law, a doubling of chip power within two years. With software, you're lucky to
get improvements at a rate of 3% a year.

Bury Our Carbon at Sea
Bruce Upbin
Here's an innovative business model that may be one way to afford the clean coal chimera.

Drop That Burger
Matthew Herper
Biotech whiz Pat Brown makes the global-warming case against animal farming.

IBM Bets On Beijing
Andy Greenberg
The company's China push could earn it billions of stimulus yuan--if it can avoid the whiff of dictatorship.

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◆Issues & Ideas

Dillinger's Nightmare
Stephane Fitch
A surprising cure for bank robberies in the U.S.: Wal-Mart-style greetings.

Not Just a Place to Hide Money
Brian Wingfield
Switzerland's image makeover.

When Copyright is Wrong
Kai Falkenberg
A scholar says long copyrights stifle creativity.

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◆Forbes Asia Life

Sandbelt
James Dodson
It's Australian for great links golf where you'll improve your bunker play.

Taste Test
Ron Gluckman
Can China's national spirit win over foreign palates?

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◆Health

Worse Than You Think
Robert Langreth
A look at how much of the $2.5 trillion the U.S. spends on health care goes down the drain.

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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.

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◆Extending His Reach
Russell Flannery
Taiwan's Tsai Eng-Meng turned his rice crackeres into a multibillion-dollar fortune. Selling juice won't be so easy.

The Richest People In America
Edited by Matthew Miller and Duncan Greenberg
America's richest get poorer for the fifth time in 27 years.

After the Fall
Keren Blankfeld and Matthew Miller
Broadcom cofounder Henry Nicholas faces up to 360 years in jail on charges of backdating options and distributing illegal drugs.

Cancer Man
Matthew Herper
Patrick Soon-Shiong and one of cancer's biggest riddles.

American Telecom Tycoon Bets on the Philippines
Tatiana Serafin
Ken Tuchman, a former member of the 400, looks to up his call-center bet in the Philippines.

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◆Companies, People, Ideas

Never Mix, Never Worry
Jan McCallum
Buying up wineries and turning Foster's into a global player seemed like a good idea at the time. Now the Australian brewer is sobering up.

PRC at 60
Zhou Jiangong
China faces an enormous demographic transformation.

The Akamai of the East
Andy Greenberg
ChinaCache cuts through its country's increasingly clogged cyberspace.

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◆Entrepreneurs

Intelligent Design
Donald Frazier
A Hong Kong startup aims to save lives, either with cigarette filters or face masks to fight flu.

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◆Technology

Marathon Man
Naazneen Karmali
Tata Consultancy Services' new boss will need his stamina.

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◆America's Most Promising Companies

Breakpoint
Maureen Farrell
Vextec can predict with scary accuracy how and when products will fail--before they're made.

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◆Forbes Asia Life

Wandering Eye
Tim Kelly
Having stirred things up in Japan, discount-travel pioneer Hideo Sawada goes abroad.

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◆Asia's Fab 50
Edited by Scott DeCarlo
Our annual ranking of the best of Asia-Pacific's biggest listed companies.

Cooling Off China
Jane Lanhee Lee Naville
Scrappy Dong Mingzhu aims to make Gree Electric the world's biggest maker
of air conditioners.

Citizen Tycoon
Naazneen Karmali
Naveen Jindal has taken what was once a lemon and turned it into India's
hottest play in steel and power.

Make It Up On Volume
Tim Kelly
Sharp wants to have the jazziest flat-screen TVs in the world. But it also
needs the budget market.

The Siege of Africa
Neelima Mahajan-Bansal and Sanjay Suri
The continent has become a battleground for China and India.

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◆Companies, People, Ideas

Ore War
Tim Treadgold
Australia's west coast is aiming to build ports to feed China's hunger for iron.

Meantime, in Goa
Megha Bahree
The ugly side of mining.

New Drugs, India-Style
Megha Bahree
Glenmark Pharma moves beyond generics.

Digital Rules | Cessna Refutes the Decline of Capitalism
Rich Karlgaard
One of the coolest ideas to come along in recent years was that of a small
business jet that could be flown easily and safely by a low-time single pilot.

Take Back the Streets
Susan Adams
New York City's transportation commissioner is untangling gridlock.

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◆Technology

Big Bet
Brian Caufield
Dell thinks that companies are ready to upgrade.

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◆Thailand's 40 Richest

Thailand's 40 Richest
Suzanne Nam
The total net worth of Thailand's wealthiest is again $25 billion, unchanged
despite recent political and economic turmoil.

Bill's Excellent Adventure
Ron Gluckman
William Heinecke's empire has taken some hits, but the fun-loving optimist travels on.

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◆Money & Investing

Euro Value
Richard C. Morais
Asian markets are bubbly. Consider Europe.

Absolute Return | Grab a Tiger by the Tail
Lisa W. Hess
The South Korean economy is roaring ahead. It's not too late to get a piece of it.

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◆Careers

Stocks to Steaks
Eric Arnold
A trader follows his bliss and ditches the securities market for a restaurant job.

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◆Forbes Asia Life

Suzy Wong, Revisited
Russell Flannery
The general manager of the fabled Luk Kwok Hotel says Hong Kong's hotel industry needs more vision.


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◆Creative Giving

The Bill Gates Of Switzerland
Tatiana Serafin
Stephan Schmidheiny has dedicated $1 billion to helping Latin America's poor become entrepreneurs.

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◆Asia's 200 Best Under A Billion
Edited by Jack Gage
After surviving the worst of a global recession, Asia's most promising smaller companies look to recapture past growth.

Drilling Amid the Taliban
Megha Bahree
Pakistan's Saif Group eyes an energy bounty in a war-torn province.

Turning Up the Heat
Maureen Farrell
Bikram Choudhury's sweaty techniques are a hit with yoga studios. Now he wants a cut.

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◆Companies, People, Ideas

Japan Abroad: Suzuki's Saga
Malini Goyal
Shinzo Nakanishi gets Indian and Japanese leaders to share power.

On the Fly | LNG Gusher
Tim Treadgold
Don Voelte of Australia's Woodside Petroleum.

Postcolonialism
Quentin Hardy
An economist's plan to save the world's poor: new cities, built around profits.

Buy Low, Sell Lower
Gady Epstein
Strange investment devices sold to the Chinese.

A Slice of Bangalore
Mitu Jayashankar
Indian software companies are hiring programmers--in the U.S.

Still Waters Run Deep
Richard C. Morais
Sun, sand and tax shelters on a string of islands in Malaysia.

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◆Entrepreneurs

Helping with Health Care
Hannah Seligson
China's Meiloo.com connects patients and doctors at the right price.

Turning Up the Heat
Maureen Farrell
Bikram Choudhury's sweaty techniques are a hit with yoga studios. Now he wants a cut.

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◆Singapore's 40 Richest

Singapore's 40 Richest
Suzanne Nam
The total wealth of Singapore's 40 richest has jumped 20%.

Geylang King
Jessica Tan
Koh Wee Meng has won big in the real estate by thinking small.

Hi-P Hooray
Jessica Tan
The fortunes of this contract manufacturer and its wealthy founder are closely aligned to those of its big-brand customers.

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◆Forbes Asia Life

Rocking Karachi
H.M. Naqvi
What you never knew about the largest city in Pakistan.

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◆The World's Hottest Sports League
Peter J. Schwartz
Two years ago, IPL cricket was a pipe dream. Now it's the fastest-appreciating sports business on Earth.

Amway's China Redux
Dan Levin
The direct-sales force sweeps past mainland hurdles with its array of pricey products.

The Philippines' 40 Richest
Suzanne Nam
Fortunes of the nation's wealthiest are rebounding.


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◆Companies, People, Ideas

Sri Lanka's Next Battle
Eric Ellis
Sri Lanka's president talks to Forbes about the war and the economy

Verizon's Export Market
Chana R. Schoenberger
Its pitch in Tokyo: Put all your telecom-network eggs in our basket.

Sorghum Beats Corn (Maybe)
Megha Bahree
India's United Phosphorus takes aim at the U.S. biofuels market.

A Bigger Rice Bowl
Abhishek Raghunath
Anjan Chatterjee is building India's first serious restaurant chain.

Clipping Its Wings
Cuckoo Paul
Naresh Goyal's Jet Airways changes course.

India's IPO Blues
Naazneen Karmali
Adani Power's stock market debut.

Backseat Driver | When 10 Million Is A Boom
Jerry Flint
The clunker subsidies helped, but times remain tough for people making automobiles.

Point of View | Betting Against the Fed
Steve H. Hanke
As long as unemployment is elevated, expect loose monetary reins and more inflation.


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◆Entrepreneurs

Out on a Lim
Lauren Sherman
A fashion duo with mainland China roots.


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◆Technology

Who Knew?
Nicole Perlroth
A box that burns cow manure to purify water.


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◆Power Women

Can Yahoo's Carol Bartz Outsmart Microsoft And Google?
Quentin Hardy
She is under the gun to remake Yahoo--quickly. We also take a look at what Yahoo's Rose Tsou is doing in Asia.

The World's 100 Most Powerful Women
Edited by Mary Ellen Egan and Chana R. Schoenberger
Women are making waves in business, politics and nonprofits around the world. Their influence is growing.

Nita Ing
Russell Flannery
She targets Indian public works while tending to trouble back in Taiwan.


Emilia Pires
Eric Ellis
East Timor's finance minister has big plans

Nine Women to Watch
Chana R. Schoenberger, Naazneen Karmali and Vivian Kwok
These Asian women aren't in the Top 100--yet.


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◆Money & Investing

Global Gambits | Stir-Fried Markets
Carl Delfeld
Sustainability of Chinese economic growth is in question. There are signs of overcapacity everywhere, especially in real estate.


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◆Issues & Ideas

Consuming for Good
Elisabeth Eaves
Saleem H. Ali's unusual environmental views.


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◆Forbes Asia Life

Paradise in Progress
Devon Pendleton
Australian Robert Oatley builds an island resort.

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◆Taiwan's 40 Richest
Russell Flannery
The nation's top tycoons have lost $22 billion, almost a third of their total wealth.

Oh, Brother
Russell Flannery
T.Y. Tsai leads a comeback at Cathay Financial, earning him and his brothers a top spot on our list of Taiwan's richest.

Let Them Eat Thai
Brian Mertens
Patara Sila-On Keeps restaurant chain S&P growing in good times and bad.

Ready to Deal
Jean Chen
China Life's Yang Chao dreams of expanding beyond insurance.

Rental Power for Pakistan
Megha Bahree
Entrepreneurs work to fix Pakistan's unreliable electric supply.


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◆Companies, People, Ideas

Politics and Bandwidth
Gady Epstein
Youku and Tudou are giving China's youth plenty of video fare. Will the two be able to steer clear of the state?

China's Khyber Pass
Megha Bahree
Shah Faisal is opening the way to Pakistan for major Chinese players.

Test Pattern
Christopher Helman
Middle East news giant Al Jazeera has gained its first big foothold in the U.S. TV market.

Coal's New Friends
Kerry A. Dolan
A solar project's funding freezes up.

Pushing Back
Gady Epstein
Writer Wang Xiaodong is fed up with the West's attitude towards China.

Building a Beachhead
Ioannis Gatsiounis
Malaysian construction companies have seen enough of the Middle East. Not Muhibbah Engineering.

Big Dig
Tim Treadgold
BHP Billiton's massive excavation plan for southern Australia.

Gaming Gold Mine
Evan Hessel and Peter C. Beller
Online worlds could make billions for game developers.

New Ways to Kill Terrorists
Jonathan Fahey
A maker of spy drones is trying to add lethal firepower to its business.

Commentary | China's Stumbling Future
John Lee
The bias toward the state sector would be acceptable if the state-controlled enterprises could learn to innovate.


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◆Money & Investing

Waiting Game
Tim Kelly
An echo of the bubble era is now playing out in Japan for developers and their banks.

Dump Stocks, Buy Bonds
Bernard Condon
Want to avoid getting burned buying into the latest asset bubble? History suggests shunning stocks and buying corporate bonds.

Peak Performance
Anita Raghavan
Europe offers bargains these days to investors with guts, says Stephen Peak.

Portfolio Strategy | Quarter-Century Mark
Ken Fisher
To avoid overpaying, use multiple metrics?not just price-to-earnings but price-to-sales and price-to-book.


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◆Issues & Ideas

Stealing a Recovery
Janet Novack and Brian Wingfield
Washington is going to tax, mandate and regulate away a U.S. rebound in corporate profits.


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◆Marketing

Zeroing In
Suzanne Nam
Coca-Cola's newest diet drink is surprisingly successful in Asia.


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◆Forbes Asia Life

To Your Long...Life
Dan Levin
Chinese consumers are excited about sex toys.

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◆The Celebrity 100

Edited by Matthew Miller, Dorothy Pomerantz and Lacey Rose
Forbes' annual tally of the most powerful celebrities in the world.

Engineering Marvel
Anuradha Raghunathan
Larsen & Toubro feasts on India's building boom.

China's SOEs Aloft
Gady Epstein
China's state-owned companies are squeezing the private sector, especially the airlines.

Eight Should Do It
Matthew Herper and Robert Langreth
Only a few disease-screening tests make a difference.

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◆Companies, People, Ideas

Building Shops Till He Drops
Naazneen Karmali
Atul Ruia is plowing ahead on megamalls for a dawning consumer class in India.

Banking Honcho
Shu-Ching Jean Chen
Thuy Dam might give ANZ an edge in Vietnam's financial free-for-all.

According to Hank
Neil Weinberg
Hank Greenberg blasts the U.S. government as he looks to invest in China.

Back From the Dead
Rebecca Buckman
Hewlett-Packard is spoiling for a battle with IBM.

Unglobal Motors
Joann Muller
Just when GM was getting the hang of globalism, it's being busted into nationalistic.

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◆Entrepreneurs

In Tokyo, A Rare Incubator For Startups
Chana R. Schoenberger
Incubating Japanese entrepreneurs.

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◆Technology

Supercomputing by the Slice
Andy Greenberg
Exa is streamlining the number-crunching business.

Digital Tools | The Pied Piper of Pay
Lee Gomes
Web entrepreneurs these days are getting the wrong idea that all that matters are user--not revenue.

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◆Careers

Time to Reinvent
David Whelan
American works recreate their careers.

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◆Money & Investing

Wages of Sin
David K. Randall
Loading up on stocks a teetotaler would hate.

Betting on Green
Andy Stone
Environmentally friendly stocks.

Doctor Doom | Doomsayers--Or Realists?
Nouriel Roubini
The economic crisis and the science of economics.

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◆Issues & Ideas

The Extremely Male Brain
Elisabeth Eaves
Mapping the mysteries of autism.

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◆Marketing

High Hopes for False Hips
Stephane Fitch
Floyd Landis' comeback.

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◆Forbes Asia Life

The NBA's Next Frontier
Tom Van Riper and Naazneen Karmali
Heidi Ueberroth looks to India for new audiences.

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◆Reverse Mentors

Saritha Rai
Bharti Airtel takes aim at the 506 million Indians under age 25 by wiring their sensibilities into the executive suite.

Automakers' Gold Rush
Joann Muller
A generation of entrepreneurs wants to make new kinds of cars in new ways. They just might give America another century in this vital industry.

Malaysia's 40 Richest
Suzanne Nam
Robert Kuok and Ananda Krishnan hold onto the top two spots for a record fourth year.

Taiwan's Healthy Export
Joyce Huang
The island's bicycle manufacturers challenge the world's best.

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◆Companies, People, Ideas

Japan Struggles Against Swine Flu
Tim Kelly and Chana R. Schoenberger
Japan is ready for the upcoming flu epidemic.

Fixing Pakistan
Maha Atal
The U.S. ambassador's latest post is as delicate as they come.

McShakeup
Tim Kelly
McDonald's Japan has slowly taken on an American management flavor.

China's Flawed Chip Strategy
Russell Flannery
Taiwan industry leader Morris Chang says that better focus is needed.

It Takes a Business
Megha Bahree
Saving children around the world by building villages full of microentrepreneurs.

The Tide Changes
Christopher Steiner
Procter & Gamble's A.G. Lafley suddenly needs to follow his own advice about innovation.

No Easy Ride
Tina Wang
Taiwan's parts suppliers won't be easy takeover targets for China's mainland automakers.

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◆Entrepreneurs

Goin' Catching
Jonathan Fahey
Fish farming should be the next big thing. If so, Aquacopia will reel it in.

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◆Technology

Getting a Green Light
Elizabeth Corcoran
Put a projector in your pocket.

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◆Money & Investing

Buy Junky Currencies
Peter C. Beller
If you can stomach the occasional devaluation, it makes sense to own trashy-looking foreign exchange contracts.

Rough Gems
Jack Gage
Shares of companies tarred by junk loans, but far from default, could be ready to bounce.

Higher Standards
Matthew Craft
Lean times for initial public stock offerings often mean large gains for investors. These are very lean times.


Point of View | When Currencies Falter
Steve H. Hanke
The financiers in Beijing are getting a little leery of dollars and are accumulating gold just in case. You should do likewise.

Global Gambits | India's Election Boost
Carl Delfeld
India's post-election bull may continue its run but more likely will retrace its steps, giving investors a chance to get in at lower valuations.

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◆Issues & Ideas

Buyers Strike Back
Bernard Condon
Discounts abound for those who know how to haggle.

Deflation
Anita Raghavan
Prices are down all over the world. Are they in a death spiral?

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◆Forbes Asia Life

Print Isn't Dead
Lauren Sherman
The ancient craft of letterpress is making a comeback.

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◆Australia's 40 Richest

Devon Pendleton
James Packer lost more than $2 billion but reclaims the top spot from mining magnate Andrew Forrest.

Stretch Run
Devon Pendleton
Gerry Harvey made a fortune in electronics retailing, but his true passion is his horses.

Curmudgeon's Countdown
Tim Treadgold
Len Buckeridge moves forward, mortality be damned.

Corporate Pigs
Russell Flannery
Pork billionaire Zhu Yicai has a play on food anxiety in China.

India's Motors On
Naazneen Karmali
Recession or not, Hero Honda is still hell on two wheels.

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◆Companies, People, Ideas

7&I Sells For Its Supper
Chana R. Schoenberger
Concentrated in one of the world's harshest retail climates, 7-Eleven's parent is coming up with yet newer tricks.

Back From the Brink
Russell Flannery
Song Weiping's Greentown China Holdings tries to keep its turnaround going.

Avoiding Sins, and Pirates
Susan Cunningham
Thailand's Precious Shipping has sailed through the crisis while others have capsized.


Backseat Driver | Michelle, Buy a Jeep
Jerry Flint
Will Americans continue to buy Chryslers, Dodges and Jeeps despite bankruptcy and risk of liquidation? Nobody wants to own an orphan car.

Dr. Debt
Nathan Vardi
Louis Reijtenbagh used everything to borrow money.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Jesse Bogan
There's a fortune to be made hauling silver out of Mexico.


Giving Babies Their Ride
Jane Lee
China's Goodbaby, the world's largest strollermaker, has even bigger plans.

The Self-Aware Earth
Quentin Hardy
First came the computer. Then the Internet. Then awareness.

China Merchants' Storied Heritage
Russell Flannery
Southern China's China Merchants Bank has a storied heritage.

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◆Technology

ZTE's Man In Dallas
Elizabeth Woyke
The Chinese telecom-equipment maker tries to break into the top five globally.

Financial Columnists

Doctor Doom | Bretton Woods III?
Nouriel Roubini
Are we going to see imbalances in the global economy return when the recovery will be in full swing?

Global Gambits | Banking on Asian Financials
Carl Delfeld
Merging markets have been rebounding in recent weeks, with investors pouring fresh money into emerging-market equity funds and ETFs.

Portfolio Strategy | Blink And You'll Miss It
Ken Fisher
If you are going to make comparisons with the Great Crash, please note that in three months during 1932 stocks shot up 92%.

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◆Forbes Asia Life

Garden of Earthly Delights
Rebecca Ruiz
Dan Hiems' passion for plants feeds a business--and a great private collection.

Picture This
Emily Lambert
Lots of professionals fantasize about new lives these days, or are being forced into them. Gallery owner Kavi Gupta got a head start.