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Since then Nepal's first billionaire has pledged $2.5 million through his Chaudhary Foundation to restore schools and homes destroyed or damaged by the quake. The foundation will bear all the costs of building 1,000 transitional bamboo-and-plaster homes and is working with other donors to construct another 9,000
What's more, Tan has taken Singaporean citizenship, according to a Grab filing with the Singapore government last year ... Grab's holding company lost $82.8 million in 2016, more than triple its losses in 2015, ... Grab faces strikes and protests by drivers, lawsuits in Vietnam and Myanmar, and governments still debating how best to license and tax ride-hailing companies.
In the race to wire all these homes Jasmine is mostly vying with True, backed by the deep pockets of Thailand’s richest clan, the Chearavanont family.
By Susan Cunningham Forbes Asia (This profile appeared in the March 2017 issue of Forbes Asia. Within ten days of its March 1 publication, Richard Quest conducted an in-person interview on CNN with the subject. Just a coincidence?) Patrick Y-Kin Grove is leaning against the pool table in Catcha Group's headquarters in the Mid Valley... Continue Reading →
Back home in Myanmar, fast-track citizenship is unlikely to be a panacea. After all, the 400 Rohingya who have managed to obtain full citizenship still face the same stigma and marginalization that the stateless Rohingya do in Rakhine state. They don't have the same access to jobs, education or housing that the Buddhists of Rakhine do. As long as these conditions persist, Rohingya will seek better lives overseas and take great risks to do so.
Susan J Cunningham 