PART I: HOW ASIA REALLY WORKS * Asian Family Connections * PART II: GOVERNMENT, THE RULE OF LAW AND DEMOCRACY IN ASIA * Is Democracy Always Good? * Paying Peanuts: Politicians' Pay in Asia * Police Corruption and the Rule of Law in Thailand * Executions and Extrajudicial Killings * Government Statistics and Other Lies * Thaksin Berlusconi and Silvio Shinawatra * The End of Indonesia * PART III: SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA * Why Singapore is Different: The Babas of Singapore * Reinventing Singapore? * Singapore Inc. or Singapore Sink? * Singapore's Thriving Sex Industry * Diversity and Decency in Malaysia * Rumours and Gossip in Malaysia * Meet Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary * PART IV: ISLAM, BUSINESS AND ASIA * Allahu Akbar! in Asia * Where do Asia's Muslims Fit in? * Southeast Asia's Arabs * Pax Islamica: Malaysia and the Middle East * PART V: JAPAN, CHINA, INDIA and KOREA: ASIA'S MONOLITH ECONOMIES * Land of the Setting Sun: The Inevitable Death of Japan * Law, Order and China * Is Booming China a Threat to Asia? * Shanghai: China's Financial Capital * And Then There is Beijing * The Dalai Lama eats Meat * The Indian Way * The World's Biggest Democracy * Mumbai: India's Financial Capital * India's Great Software Revolution * India: Back Office to the World * Stunning Korea * The Insider PART I: HOW ASIA REALLY WORKS * Asian Family Connections * PART II: GOVERNMENT, THE RULE OF LAW AND DEMOCRACY IN ASIA * Is Democracy Always Good? * Paying Peanuts: Politicians' Pay in Asia * Police Corruption and the Rule of Law in Thailand * Executions and Extrajudicial Killings * Government Statistics and Other Lies * Thaksin Berlusconi and Silvio Shinawatra * The End of Indonesia * PART III: SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA * Why Singapore is Different: The Babas of Singapore * Reinventing Singapore? * Singapore Inc. or Singapore Sink? * Singapore's Thriving Sex Industry * Diversity and Decency in Malaysia * Rumours and Gossip in Malaysia * Meet Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary * PART IV: ISLAM, BUSINESS AND ASIA * Allahu Akbar! in Asia * Where do Asia's Muslims Fit in? * Southeast Asia's Arabs * Pax Islamica: Malaysia and the Middle East * PART V: JAPAN, CHINA, INDIA and KOREA: ASIA'S MONOLITH ECONOMIES * Land of the Setting Sun: The Inevitable Death of Japan * Law, Order and China * Is Booming China a Threat to Asia? * Shanghai: China's Financial Capital * And Then There is Beijing * The Dalai Lama eats Meat * The Indian Way * The World's Biggest Democracy * Mumbai: India's Financial Capital * India's Great Software Revolution * India: Back Office to the World * Stunning Korea * The Insider.