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18 years old — and a CEO
With a Wall Street address and wisdom beyond his years, Mohammed Omar Faruk tells asia! how business can take care of the world.
Organised crime
India is reeling from the discovery of a network of brokers and health workers dealing in kidneys.
Feng shui master fights for Nina Wang's fortune
The tussle over Little Sweetie's billions shows that when there is a will, there is a fight.
Nina Wang's feuding father-in-law backed by "investors"
Worthy of a soap opera, the battle over Teddy Wang’s estate involved dangerous liaisons of all kinds.
Amy Ho: Taiwan's Martha Stewart
Celebrity, entrepreneur, health advisor and beauty guru. Stock wiz, hotelier, author, and coffee retailer. What does Taiwan’s “luckiest and most beautiful entrepreneur” want to do now?
Liem Sioe Liong: Bringer of strife
The founder of Indonesia's Salim Group has set his eyes on another empire — this time in India.
The Fuqing connection
The rise of Liem Sioe Liong owes a lot to circumstances, particularly the fact that he hails from Fuqing in the northern Fujian province of China.
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
There are many who practise crony capitalism — getting economic gains by toadying up to the powers that be — but few, if any, match the scale of Liem Sioe Liong.
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.
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Instant noodles' impact on the world
Nano car. Big questions. (Part 1 of 2)
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The elixir of youth
Death by mining - A Third World affair
A tale of two bronzes
Chasing the sun
SPAM, I am
Life, unscripted
India's silent gender cleansing
Bhutan: Weaving a future
Fight of the moon goddesses
The wretched act of animal release
A flare-up over going solar
Disappearing deity
Villages jump on the Internet Bus
Bridging the digital divide
Does communication save lives?
Singaporeans rise to the occasion in AWARE saga
Flight of the Kiwi
Crossing the Muslim-Buddhist divide for love
Singing to read
Fascinating Asia by Rail
10 Eco-Myths Busted
Another Point
From Jerusalem to the West Bank