In this issue

Asia's Power Business Women / Philippines Rich List

Harry's Game

Harry Triguboff, Australia’s second-richest person, has learned how to make money in up and down markets.

6 mins

Green Steel

After his partner dropped dead, globetrotting financier David Stickler found himself at the helm of a steel mill startup in rural Arkansas. Now he runs the best little high-tech, highly leveraged steelmaker in the U.S.

5 mins

High Flyer

Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao has made history by starting and running her own major commercial airline.

5 mins

Banking On Diversity

Regional Head of HSBC Private Banking in Asia-Pacific Siew Meng Tan discusses how the bank promotes gender diversity within the company and supports female entrepreneurs and business leaders.

4 mins

Asia's Power Businesswomen

Welcome to the rebooted Power Businesswomen list for 2019. In 2012, Forbes Asia launched its inaugural list, a compilation of 50 outstanding business leaders transforming their industries and the region. Since then, the list has gone through its own transformation: in 2013, the name changed to Women In The Mix and last year the Emergent 25—refocused on up-and-coming businesswomen. Such changes were necessary to reflect the rise of self-made entrepreneurs, particularly in sectors such as technology and retail.This year’s list restores the original title but is refreshed in presentation. The goal remains to highlight accomplished women in business in the Asia-Pacific region who are either running enterprises with sizable revenues or who have founded startups valued at no less than $200 million ($14 billion in the case of Tan Hooi Ling’s Grab). We have, however, limited the list to 25, and excluded anyone from previous years’ lists.With 25 new names every year, we hope to expand this community of women business leaders who are breaking down barriers and playing a significant role in shaping Asia’s business landscape in the next few decades. They are an inspiration to everyone.

10+ mins

Frontrow: Reinventing Network Marketing

A fast-growing beauty and wellness brand is revolutionizing the direct selling business in the Philippines.

4 mins

Kanye's Second Coming

THREE YEARS AFTER A CANCELED TOUR, HOSPITALIZATION AND CLAIMS OF $53 MILLION IN DEBT, HIP-HOP SUPERSTAR KANYE WEST HAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST HITS OF THE DECADE—AND IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MUSIC. HIS BILLION-DOLLAR YEEZY SNEAKER EMPIRE IS THE BEST BET IN A GENERATION TO TOPPLE AIR JORDAN. SOMETIMES IT PAYS TO BE A CONTROL FREAK.

10+ mins

Building Momentum

Edgar Saavedra has gone from building for Manila’s biggest tycoons to bidding against them.

5 mins

Build, Build, Build

The country needs infrastructure—and China has the cash to fund it.

3 mins

The Life Factory

Customized organisms will revolutionize the way we manufacture everything from car seats to cellphones. A group of MIT-trained scientists at $1.4 billion synthetic biology startup Ginkgo Bioworks is brewing the building blocks for our bioengineered future.

10+ mins

Personalizing Cancer

Eric Lefkofsky made it big with five startups—most famously Groupon—by harnessing data. Will it work for diseases?

3 mins

Shock To The System

Ather’s Tarun Mehta and Swapnil Jain are out to electrify India’s two-wheeled transport market.

2 mins

Magic Touch

Siam Wellness is creating a Thai-based wellness chain, bringing its massages to a new level of ahhh.

3 mins

The Polymath Philanthropist

MICROSOFT COFOUNDER PAUL ALLEN PASSED AWAY LAST OCTOBER AND POSTHUMOUSLY RECEIVED THE FORBES 400 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR PHILANTHROPY. BILL GATES OFFERS A POIGNANT TRIBUTE TO HIS CHILDHOOD FRIEND AND SHARES ALLEN’S OUTLINE FOR 21ST-CENTURY GIVING.

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