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ASIA'S NEW WEALTH CLUB
WHO'S REALLY WHO IN 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS - THE TOP 100 BILLIONAIRES IN ASIA
Geoff Hiscock
"Essential to understanding the Asian business world."
The Director
In this new, revised and updated edition of his bestselling book Asia's Wealth Club, Geoff Hiscock looks at how Asia's billionnaires are coping with the dramatic changes to the Asian business scene that began in Thailand in July 1997 and gradually spread across the region.
There are an astonishing number of surviving winners from the old membership of Asia's Wealth Club, testament to their power and agility, alongside many new high-flyers.
Geoff Hiscock finds a Japanese recovery led by the Internet, communications and financial services which is producing even more Japanese members of a very different 'wealth club'. He reveals that there will be two Asias - one rebounding fast and one slowly, depending on how closely the various economies and companies are hooked up to the "globalization express".
Geoff Hiscock is international business editor of Australia's national daily newspaper, The Australian, headquartered in Sydney. Before joining The Australian in 1995 he was executive editor of Business Asia magazine. A graduate of the US Foreign Service Institute in Yokohama, Japan, his 30-year media career includes long-term assignments in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Bangkok.