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The floodplains of Soc Trang Province in Vietnam's Mekong Delta are a maze of rivers and canals dotted with villages so impoverished that local farmers earn less than $1 a day. It is not an obvious place to seek a fortune, but capitalism finds a way. Steering his ramshackle...
Horie, 32, founder of Livedoor, one of Japan's most successful Internet firms, last year shocked the country's calcified baseball establishment by offering to buy the ailing Osaka-based Kintetsu Buffaloes. The owners rebuffed him as a punk. Now Horie has set the business community buzzing with a hostile...
But Macozoma agreed in an interview to take on the critics. He argues that comparing the experiences of Russia and South Africa is "analytical madness." In Russia, he notes, the oligarchs snapped up state-owned assets at bargain prices; in South Africa, the new élite is making deals with...
Since Mao Zedong’s death, China has been a country searching for a new path that combines Communism and capitalism. It has been trying to find its own balance between the need for stability and the need for freedom. Like all pioneers, China has often stumbled, but it...
While she acknowledges the many problems the country has in terms of human rights abuses, she was excited by her experience in Havana as “a big city without the visual pollution of corporate advertising.” Such a different environment forced her to realizations of the...