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White flight from Red Russia (Part 1 of 2)
Fleeing from the Bolsheviks, thousands of White Russians made Old Shanghai their home away from home. Maria Maximova searches for remnants of the enclave.
Chinese women who redefined fierce!
If Wendi Deng Murdoch is ever in need of a role model, she needs look no further than Washington DC, the hometown of Anna Chan Chennault.
Mother Teresa's Calcutta, India's Kolkata
It is best known to outsiders as Calcutta where the famed nun Mother Teresa set up her Missionaries of Charity to serve the dying in the city in 1950. Since then, the city has been renamed Kolkata and is witnessing a transformation in its political landscape. The state of West Bengal where it is located has been a traditional stronghold of India's Communist Party. That now may change, as the party and the state find themselves at the crossroads of tradition and progress.
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Illustration: Vikash Sharma
The Great Indian Migration : From the provinces to Mumbai and back again
A certain dedication to the family that propels millions of rural Indians to leave the comfort of home for the city. They send back money and sometimes along with it, the seeds of a revolution.
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Illustration: Vikash Sharma
The ties that bind
Last year the Liem Sioe Liong family again made news in Malaysia, but not in the way it wanted.
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Days of plunder
It has been said that Liem Sioe Liong gives crony capitalism a bad name. The comment was tongue-in-cheek, of course, but it has some truth to it.
Burglars and acquisitions
But for a robbery, the fact that Mirzan and Jane have kept a luxurious house in Vancouver, Western Canada, would probably have never been made public.
Fair lady
She is often called the most beautiful Chinese woman alive. No doubt Zhang Ziyi, who considers herself a great beauty, will disagree, but if a poll is taken, there is a good chance Brigitte Lin Qingxia will walk away with the top prize.
There simply isn't just one Mumbai
Karishma Vaswani shows theasiamag.com the highlights of this astounding metropolis of 18 million and makes sense of the economic spectrum of people who call this city home.
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Illustration: Vikash Sharma
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