Forbes Asia — October 2017

Fab 50: Asia’s Best Big Public Companies 2017

Philippines’ 50 Richest 2017: A Lucky Few Have Rodrigo Duterte to Thank

China’s New Ivy League Incubators—A Victory for Humanities Majors?

China Rises, While U.S. Declines: Interesting Times of the 21st Century

Taiwan Is Slowly Getting Help From Around Asia to Resist China Economically

Villas Complete With Nuclear Bomb Shelters in Chiang Mai, Thailand

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READERS SAY

THE INTEREST GRAPH

Our lists from last issue grabbed the most eyeballs:

“The new

Southbound

Policy will likely

provide some

support to Taiwan’s

competitiveness.”

10,128 page views

6,

6,

5,

7,1 6 9

3,

“Boutique services

are helping to

change not only how

students approach the

application process

but also what they

study when they get

to college.”

OUR STORY about Fab 50

pharma company Yunnan

Baiyao (“The Picture of

Health,” September, p. 23)

prompted “Melanie” to post:

“I am happy to hear that

YNBY Corp is doing well. I

believe that Yunnan Baiyao

powder is extremely eff ec-

tive, has many applications

and should be readily avail-

able in the U.S. Unfortunate-

ly, the FDA sees diff erently.

I’d love to see someone do a

story on all traditional Chi-

nese medicines that actually

work yet have to be labeled as

a ‘dietary supplement’ in the

U.S.” In its Web posting head-

lined “Innovators, Rebels

and Rogues,” Esquire Philippines had a mildly dark tone when analyzing the

young members of our Philippines 50 list (p. 74), who owed their wealth to

“ hard work, some smarts, luck—and a little bit of cunning.”

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