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Edition: Asia
Edition: Asia
Vol. 163 No. 8
COVER
Clans on the Run
(Cover Story)
As a new generation takes over, Asia's richest business families are being forced to change their cloistered, Confucian ways
The Families that Own Asia: The Moris (Cover Story)
Two brothers with different visions split a family empire in half
The families that own Asia: The Lis (Cover Story)
Hong Kong's "Superman" Li Ka-shing is the richest man in Asia. Can his sons duplicate his dealmaking skills?
The Families that Own Asia: The Sys (Cover Story)
Can Henry Sy's all-in-the-family approach handle the complexity of managing a retailing giant?
The Families that Own Asia: The Ambanis (Cover Story)
Despite the death of their patriarch, the Ambani family is bringing India's Reliance Group into the 21st century
The Families that Own Asia: The Chearavanonts (Cover Story)
Dhanin Chearavanont built his family seed shop into a multinational conglomerate, then risked everthing to save it during the 1997 economic crisis. Now, he's rebuilding again
The Families that Own Asia: The Tsais (Cover Story)
Taking pains to be transparent at Taiwan's banking and finance colossus
Built to last (Cover Story)
The World's Oldest Family Firm
Hard Times for the Rich (Cover Story)
Many of Asia's prominent families have been targets for shareholders and prosecutors
ASIA
Strait Talking
In an exclusive interview, President Chen Shui-bian rejects the mainland's "one China" policy
Subcontinental Divide
India's surging economy has changed the political debate, but not the lives of the majority of its citizens
NOTEBOOK
Caught in the Web?
(Notebook | Malaysia)
Questions persist over Malaysian involvement in Pakistan's nuclear proliferation scandal
Steam on the Screen (Notebook | Indonesia)
Relaxed censorship has helped spark a film Renaissance in Indonesia
Milestones
Events of the Week
Verbatim
Quotes of the week
Letters
Mission to Mars
HEALTH
"The Potential Is Immeasurable"
(Science)
Lab pioneer Hwang Woo Suk says cloning research must continue
ARTS
Lights! Sound! Fury!
Bollywood turns Macbeth into Maqbool , a stylish and menacing tale of a murderous mobster
The Thane of Bombay
TIME talks to Irrfan Khan, the star of Maqbool
A Master of the Arts
Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa gave Japan its soul, writes scholar Donald Keene
GLOBAL ADVISER
Location, Location, Location
(TIME Global Adviser | Diversions)
The ultimate movie buff's guide to where it was at in London
"You Can't Wear That!" (TIME Global Adviser | Style Watch)
Oh, yes, you can. Crazy mixing-and-matching is Asia's look for 2004
Ecotourism Without Tears (TIME Global Adviser | Time Traveler)
Want to help save the planet and do it in comfort? We'll show you the way
Copenhagen: Coffee and Danish (TIME Global Adviser | Next Time You're In...)
Quality counts for Vesterbro's "Coffee Nerd"

Norman Rockwell: The Photographs Behind the Art
Ask Your Questions: Garrison Keillor
The 10 Worst Things About the Worst Decade Ever
Weekly Acoustic News: Thanksgiving Edition
The Gospel of Glee: Is It Anti-Christian?
Can a Good Guy Fix College Football's Worst Thing?
The Road on Film: Beautiful, Bleak
Obama's First State Dinner
The Princess and the Frog: Big Fun on the Bayou
Me and Orson Welles: Zac Efron Takes the Stage