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JAPAN KAZAKHSTAN KOREA
Artist Kouji As young men,
Tajima created they were stone
the concept art masons. Today
for Godzilla and Aidyn Rakhim-
Tim Burton’s bayev and Evgeny
Miss Peregrine’s Evdokimov run
Home for Pecu- BI Group, one of
liar Children. Kazakhstan’s larg-
est construction
companies. 31

LATVIA

The largest F
solar-panel park MEXICO R
in Latvia has MONGOLIA O
been powering N
Salaspils with its Mongolia’s benchmark T
stock index has rallied
supply of warm over 85% in the past three U
R
water thanks to years since Davaasuren N
Ina Bērziņa-Veita, Sodnomdarjaa became N
CEO of Salaspils chairman of the Financial E
Silturns, a heating Regulatory Commission in R
company.
July 2016.

Meet Young-Mi Youn,
“End the era of open . . .
NIGERIA trade,” says Raúl Gutiérrez the meat mogul
Muguerza, CEO of Deace- behind Highland
Designer Betu ro, a top steel company. Food, which she has
Kumesu’s luxury He believes Mexico’s grown to $36 million
handbags come exports have damaged its in sales.
handmade by six manufacturers.
Nigerian artisans
from the nation’s PORTUGAL
Kano region. A PANAMA Companies like Pinterest
recent collection’s are increasingly turning
inspiration? The to Unbabel’s AI-powered
patterns and motifs software to translate
from the Congolese languages.
Kuba Kingdom.

ROMANIA SLOVAKIA

POLAND
Central America is witness-
ing a fintech boom. There Begone! An increasing
were over 1,400 last year, a number of European and
66% increase since 2017. other global cities are suf-
fering from a tourist deluge
and considering how best to
SOUTH AFRICA protect their cities from the
growing hordes. TURKEY
Travel mogul Neşet Koçkar
THAILAND hopes to resurrect Thomas
Cook, the British tour
operator that unexpectedly
In Bratislava, Pavel Pelikán
Over one million people is putting up the city’s first folded in September.
flocked to Romania this true skyscraper (550 feet
year to attend a surging tall). In London, his J&T
number of music festivals Real Estate is erecting two
like Untold, Neversea and residential towers along the
Electric Castle. Thames River.

RUSSIA SPAIN

Energy giants Lukoil and Vanachai Group, a maker
Surgutneftegas and gro- of wood panels and floor-
cery chain X5 Retail lead ing, is hoping to rebound
a list of Russia’s biggest after high U.S. tariffs hit it
companies.
hard in 2018.

A professor at South
Africa’s University of VIETNAM
the Witwatersrand, More than 50,000
Marcus Byrne, is students across
studying dung
On Forbes Spain’s new beetles, hoping to Vietnam are
list of the top influencers: take observations piling into the
gamer Samuel de Luque, on how they live and schools run by the
who has 27 million You- move and apply them Nguyen Hoang
Tube subscribers. to robotics. Group, a former IT
company.

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