Forbes Asia — October 2017

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FORBES JAPAN NOVEMBER
Takahisa Takahara fronts the magazine’s collection of top
100 Japanese CEOs. His Unicharm, the maker of diapers and
personal-hygiene products—also a past selection for Forbes
Asia’s Fab 50 companies list—boasts that it covers Japan’s
youngest to oldest and “offers value to all our stakeholders.”
(forbesjapan.com)

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FORBES CHINA SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER
Film and TV star Yang Mi is No. 3 on the China Celebrity 100 list, which ranks
entertainers—and swimmer Sun Yang, No. 69—based on popularity and earnings.
(Another actress, Fan Bingbing, repeats as No. 1.) Yang runs her own production
company and has 76 million followers on Weibo. (forbeschina.com)

FORBES INDIA
SEPTEMBER 29
Rocketing startup Byju has
metamorphosed from math
tutoring into a leader of the
new wave of Indian education
corporates, attaining a near
billion-dollar funding valuation.
(forbesindia.com)

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FORBES KOREA SEPTEMBER
Billionaire CEO of CJ Group Lee Jay-
Hyun, out of prison for white-collar
crimes, vows to triple the food-
and-entertainment conglomerate’s
revenues by 2020 and make it the
world’s best company by 2030.
(forbeskorea.com)

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