Forbes Asia — October 2017

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CONTENTS — OCTOBER 2017 VOLUME 13 NUMBER 10 10 | FACT & COMMENT // STEVE FORBES Why is the key to prosperity ignored? COVER ...

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CONTENTS — OCTOBER 2017 28 | THE POINT OF ALL RETURNS Optoro builds its business on America’s mountain of rejected merchandise. ...

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CHIEF PRODUCT OFFICER Lewis D’Vorkin FORBES MAGAZINE EDITOR Randall Lane EXECUTIVE EDITOR Michael Noer ART & DESIGN DIRECTOR ...

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Fab 50: Asia’s Best Big Public Companies 2017 Philippines’ 50 Richest 2017: A Lucky Few Have Rodrigo Duterte to Thank China’s Ne ...

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10 | FORBES ASIA OCTOBER 2017 WHY IS THE KEY TO PROSPERITY IGNORED? BY STEVE FORBES, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF “With all thy getting, get ...

OCTOBER 2017 FORBES ASIA | 11 should have a fixed gold value (the pound/ gold ratio remained, £3. 89 per ounce, for more than tw ...

12 | FORBES ASIA OCTOBER 2017 T he accelerating shift to cloud- based IT, greater adoption of automation and the Trump administr ...

OCTOBER 2017 FORBES ASIA | 13 bilities across all of our business segments along three areas—digital business, digital operation ...

14 | FORBES ASIA OCTOBER 2017 our own IP that is starting to contribute to overall revenue. If, broadly, digital is seen as [new ...

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ADAM DEAN FOR FORBES W hen a husband-and-wife team took over KBZ Bank in remote northern Myanmar in 1996 , it had all the trappi ...

In the spotlight: sisters Nang Lang Kham and Marlene Nang Kham Noung. ...

18 | FORBES ASIA OCTOBER 2017 Long groomed for the spotlight, Marlene, 26 , and sister Nang Lang Kham, 2 9, are both executive d ...