Forbes in Asian women power list

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1 March 2012 Last updated at 06:59 GMT This is the first Forbes list of powerful businesswomen in Asia Women from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau have dominated a list of 50 of the most powerful women in business in Asia by Forbes.

The media company said the women were chosen for "their hands-on management of profit-seeking companies".

Among those on the list are Perth mining mogul and Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart, as well as the head of Vietnam's biggest milk company.

However, many women in Asia still face issues of inequality in the workplace.

"This inaugural list celebrates the dynamic ways in which Asia's businesswomen are driving some of the region's most exciting growth," said Moira Forbes, president and publisher of ForbesWoman in a statement.

"Through their respective realms of power and influence, these honourees span diverse industries, nations and generations, yet each has changed the face of Asian business, while creating opportunities for future leaders."

Forbes said that 21 (or 42%) of the 50 women were from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. From India there were eight women (or 16%) and from Singapore there were five women (or 10%).

The remainder were from South Korea, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

Sun Yafang, who is the chairman of Huawei Technologies, a major supplier of telecommunication equipment, is named as a honouree, as well Linda Chen, chief operating officer of gaming company Wynn Macau.

She is seen as a possible successor to Steve Wynn, head of the parent group Wynn Resorts, according to Forbes.

The youngest woman on the list is Ekta Kapoor, 36, known for making popular Indian soap operas and Bollywood movies. She is the joint managing director of Balaji Telefilms.

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Forbes in Asian women power list

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota
1 March 2012 Last updated at 06:59 GMT This is the first Forbes list of powerful businesswomen in Asia Women from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau have dominated a list of 50 of the most powerful women in business in Asia by Forbes.

The media company said the women were chosen for "their hands-on management of profit-seeking companies".

Among those on the list are Perth mining mogul and Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart, as well as the head of Vietnam's biggest milk company.

However, many women in Asia still face issues of inequality in the workplace.

"This inaugural list celebrates the dynamic ways in which Asia's businesswomen are driving some of the region's most exciting growth," said Moira Forbes, president and publisher of ForbesWoman in a statement.

"Through their respective realms of power and influence, these honourees span diverse industries, nations and generations, yet each has changed the face of Asian business, while creating opportunities for future leaders."

Forbes said that 21 (or 42%) of the 50 women were from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. From India there were eight women (or 16%) and from Singapore there were five women (or 10%).

The remainder were from South Korea, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.

Sun Yafang, who is the chairman of Huawei Technologies, a major supplier of telecommunication equipment, is named as a honouree, as well Linda Chen, chief operating officer of gaming company Wynn Macau.

She is seen as a possible successor to Steve Wynn, head of the parent group Wynn Resorts, according to Forbes.

The youngest woman on the list is Ekta Kapoor, 36, known for making popular Indian soap operas and Bollywood movies. She is the joint managing director of Balaji Telefilms.

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Power Players: Using Obama’s words against him

A few weeks ago Spinners and Winners went through the top five things Mitt Romney has said that Democrats would use against him if he wins the Republican nomination. Now the flip side: The top five things from Barack Obama you can be sure Republicans will use over and over again in the fall campaign.

The president's opponents will hammer some of the wildly optimistic predictions the White House made about the stimulus program, and some economic promises that Obama has failed to deliver.

"Fourteen days after I signed our Recovery Act into law, we are seeing shovels hit the ground," Obama said in March of 2009. Last year, when it was clear the stimulus did not create the 4 million jobs analysts had predicted it would, the president back-tracked, joking at an economic forum, "Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected."

In February 2009 Obama said, "I'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office." After Obama uttered those words, the deficit actually shot up to $1.4 trillion dollars in 2009. It then came down to $1.3 trillion in 2010, then stayed flat for 2011. The Congressional Budget office estimates 2012's deficit will be $1.1 trillion dollars -- a far cry from cutting the deficit in half.

Republicans will attack not just his words, but also his actions, making hay out of the president bowing to foreign dignitaries.

The number one quote that Republicans will likely play over and over again was said nearly three years ago, in an interview the newly-inaugurated president gave to NBC's Today Show.

"If I don't have this done in three years, then there is going to be a one-term proposition," Obama said.

Mitt Romney already talks about this all the time.

"He said if he could turn the economy around in 3 years he would be looking at a one term proposition, well we're here to collect," Romney told a crowd in Grand Rapids, Mich., in mid February. "We're here to collect."

Watch the full show for the full top five.

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