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ISRAEL ITALY JAPAN
If everything Colmar’s down jackets The best-dressed men
goes accord- have been mainstays already wear Kashiyama’s
ing to plan on European slopes for custom suits. Now it’s
for Amnon generations. “Decades of making custom women’s
Shashua, whose history have allowed us to shoes as well.
company, Mo- create a clear DNA,” says
bileye, supplies Mario Colombo, company
autonomous- president.
driving tech,
Israel will see its KAZAKHSTAN 37
first robo-taxi
INDIA by 2022. When Ashkat Omarov
launched his online airfare
“I have a strong instinct site, Santufei, in 2014, it
. . . [and] most of the crashed on day one. Five F
R
time it will be backed by years later, it’s one O
some solid work,” says of the country’s largest N
IT billionaire Shiv Nadar, KOREA such sites, with close to T
who has grown increas- $20 million in revenue. R
ingly interested in U
philanthropy as his net N
worth more than tripled MONGOLIA N
in the past decade. E
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KENYA
The emergence of mobile
banking in Kenya—led by
M-Pesa, a fintech startup—
is a boon for customers LATVIA MEXICO
(who get easier access to
Three Latvian twenty-
banks and safer transac- somethings have created Mexico City faces a pro-
tions) and for companies found water crisis. Water
(who get an entirely new what they call a “Tinder for tanks from Rotoplas ($450 Mining-dependent Mon-
loans”: an app called Jeff.
million in sales) are now
customer base). The lenses made by Eun Their first market? A world a ubiquitous sight on the golia is under pressure to
boost its output of high-
Gyeong Park’s Sekonix away in Vietnam. metropolis’ skyline. quality coal.
power the cameras going
into cars from Hyundai,
Kia and others, enabling SLOVAKIA
them to judge distance
and traffic conditions.
In America, Marian
PORTUGAL Hossa was a hockey
star, winning three
On Forbes Portugal’s ROMANIA Stanley Cups. In
Power Women list: Paula his native Slovakia,
Amorim. She runs a $5 billion his frozen-food
empire that includes energy, company, HO&PE,
fashion and more. has become a major
maker of pierogi
and dumplings.

THAILAND
Energy mogul Augustin
POLAND Oancea follows a “golden Known in Thai fi-
Businesses in conservative rule that . . . is according to nancial circles as
Poland are tapping a new a Romanian saying: Never the “Stock Market
customer base: LGBTQ con- follow the path beaten Goddess,” Pattera
sumers, who tend to have by others if you want to Dilokrungthirapop
more disposable income. succeed.” is the CEO of DBS
Vickers Securities.
EDITED BY ELISABETH BRIER, ABRAM BROWN AND JUSTIN CONKLIN
RUSSIA SOUTH AFRICA SPAIN

A new ranking of Mos-
cow’s most successful
restaurants includes high-
end staples like White
Rabbit and Selfie, as well
as lower-end fare, such
as Boston Seafood & Bar VIETNAM
near the Begovoy District.
Quách Thái Công
is the toast of
Ho Chi Minh City,
“Every book tells a story,” one of the town’s
says Katherine Munro, a hottest interior
74-year-old South African designers. His
whose six-figure library recent fee for
landed her on a new Forbes Que rico! No. 1 on Forbes making over
Africa list of the continent’s Spain’s list of the 100 a 3,700-square-
largest and most unusual richest: Zara founder foot pad?
collections. Amancio Ortega. $1.5 million.

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