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40 or 50 families control the economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. Their interests range from banking to property, from shipping to sugar, from vice to gambling. 13 of the 50 richest families in the world are in South East Asia yet they are largely unknown outside confined business circles. Often this is because they control the press and television as well as everything else. How do they do it? What are their secrets? And is it good news or bad for the places where they operate? Joe Studwell explosively lifts the lid on a world of staggering secrecy and shows that the little most people know is almost entirely wrong.

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A first-class study ... the product of an original, inquiring mind. * Sunday Times *
The romp around the region's pleasure domes is a blast. * Asian Wall Street Journal *
You badly need to read this book. Joe Studwell...should be named chief myth-buster for Asian business...his tone is ironic without being cruel...his mythbusting is as merciless as it is enlightening...Studwell skewers myths with equal passion and panache. * Financial Times *

Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong

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      Publisher Profile Books Ltd
      Published 14 August 2008
      ISBN-13 9781861977113
      978-1861977113
      ISBN-10 1861977115
      Also in:
      Biography Biography: general Business, Finance & Law Macroeconomics Ownership and organization of enterprises

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      40 or 50 families control the economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. Their interests range from banking to property, from shipping to sugar, from vice to gambling. 13 of the 50 richest families in the world are in South East Asia yet they are largely unknown outside confined business circles. Often this is because they control the press and television as well as everything else. How do they do it? What are their secrets? And is it good news or bad for the places where they operate? Joe Studwell explosively lifts the lid on a world of staggering secrecy and shows that the little most people know is almost entirely wrong.

      Trade Review
      A first-class study ... the product of an original, inquiring mind. * Sunday Times *
      The romp around the region's pleasure domes is a blast. * Asian Wall Street Journal *
      You badly need to read this book. Joe Studwell...should be named chief myth-buster for Asian business...his tone is ironic without being cruel...his mythbusting is as merciless as it is enlightening...Studwell skewers myths with equal passion and panache. * Financial Times *

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