Dr. Mahathir Mohamad is the former prime minister of Malaysia ( PM from 1981 to 2003) . He is credited with turning the Malaysian economy from a backwater in the 60s to one of the top emerging tiger economies by 2000, and making Malaysia to be the 17th top trading nation in the world. He is acknowledged to be a spokesman for the New Asia and many times for Developing Countries. He is also known to be controversial at times, and while at times speak for globalization, does not hesitate to hit out on rich countries, or rich capitalists like George Soros if he believes that they are not doing the proper thing for Malaysia.

He is known to be supportive of big business, but also is known to frown Read the rest of this entry »

I just saw an ad which says, ” at Samsung, we realize that to succeed in business, we must also succeed in life.”

Yes, we realized that too, and that has been the theme of Bizdrivenlife the last 16 months!

Asiaweek Chinese Edition ( Yazhou Zoukan) just came out with an article that there are now well over 10 million bloggers in China, as well as over a hundred millions surfers.

To my Chinese friends, I started to translate some of my articles into Chinese and post it here. More coming!