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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

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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"


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