The Vancouver Sun, 13 Oct 2008
Forbes magazine recently published its list of Asia's most powerful women. Readers may well quarrel with those included or excluded, and the ranking. But here is the Forbes's top ten:
1. Ho Ching, CEO of Singapore's investment company Temasek Holdings, and wife of the Lion City's prime minister Lee Hsien Loong.
2. Sonia Gandhi, president of India's National Congress party, and Italian-born widow of assassinated former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
3. Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Indonesia's finance minister and coordinating minister for economic affairs.
4. Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Myanmar's National League for Democracy and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who has been held in detention by the ruling junta for most of the last 20 years.
5. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the president of the Philippines who came to power in a 2001 bloodless coup and who remains firmly in charge despite allegations of election fraud and questions about her husband's business activities.
6. Zhang Xin, the CEO of China's commercial real estate developer SOHO, which she set up with her husband Pan Shiyi.
7. Yang Mian Mian, the president of China's Haier company, the world's fourth-largest maker of household appliances.
8. Lee Myung Hee, South Korea's richest woman and chairman of the distribution company Shinsegae.
9. Eva Chang, who rose from being a secretary at Amway Hong Kong to become chairwoman of Amway China, the household goods manufacturing and direct sales company.
10 Jing Ulrich, chairwoman and managing director of JPMorgan Chase China Equities, frequently named the "Best China Strategist."
Source: Forbes magazine
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