Two weeks before setting off for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics to compete as Kyrgyzstan's only alpine skier, Timur Shakirov was weaving down a slalom course in his homeland.

The collective net worth of tycoons on the 2026 Forbes list of Hong Kong’s 50 Richest jumped 22% to an all-time high of ...

Among the notable gainers is the Keswick family, whose net worth shot up by close to 90% to $4.6 billion. Shares of their ...

Progress on corporate governance in Asia has been uneven in part because it has relied on the zeal of politicians and ...

Thanks partly to a rising Aus­tralian dollar, up 9% in the past year, the collective wealth of the 2026 Forbes list of Australia’s 50 Richest rose US$11 billion to $254 billion. The complete list is ...

Africa’s Richest Economy Tops the World in Income Inequality Something doesn’t add up in Johannesburg. A country that mints millionaires faster than any other on the African continent — 41,100 at last ...

A report by Human Rights Watch says backsliding on protections is taking a toll on Asian economies as growing inequality ...

Indians are among the leading buyers of gold in the world, but the country has been seeing increasing financialization of ...

Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a city with as much culture off the silver screen as on it.

The cost of borrowing is already choking crucial public spending in many developing economies. Now it’s raising broader alarms. By Patricia Cohen Patricia Cohen, who has written frequently about debt ...

Some of Iran’s richest residents fled to Turkey so they could party while back home their country’s oppressive government was slaughtering thousands of residents as anti-government protests raged. The ...

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