Asia Weekly
A broad editorial survey of the people, companies, institutions, and ideas shaping Asia’s changing place in global business, education, technology, capital, and leadership.
Issue Overview
Excellence as a long-term project
Asia Weekly 2025 Q2 Issue examines excellence as something built through vision, execution, planning, mentorship, global exposure, and the patience to cultivate potential over time.
The issue connects education, digital finance, luxury management, manufacturing leadership, entrepreneurship, and cross-border business vision into one broader question: how do individuals and institutions build lasting value in a world where change is accelerating?
Cover Story
Gates Yao: The Road to Excellence for Children
The cover story presents Gates Yao through the lens of educational excellence and next-generation development, framing education as a long journey of vision, planning, character formation, intellectual growth, and global opportunity.
The feature connects school selection, curriculum planning, language preparation, extracurricular development, research experience, and admissions strategy into a coherent growth path.
The story emphasizes cultural fluency, academic readiness, emotional resilience, and individualized preparation for international education systems.
True excellence is framed as independent thinking, cross-cultural communication, adaptability, and the long-term cultivation of human potential.
The issue links children’s development with the broader future of talent, creativity, leadership, and regional competitiveness.
Issue Highlights
Education, entrepreneurship, finance, luxury, and manufacturing leadership
The 2025 Q2 issue focuses on a generation of builders whose work connects entrepreneurship, digital finance, luxury management, manufacturing leadership, and educational innovation.
Education and Global Pathways
- Gates Yao and the road to excellence for children
- Long-term planning, mentorship, global exposure, and character formation
- Preparing young people for mobility, technological disruption, and rising global competition
Entrepreneurship and Digital Finance
- Marc Lore’s entrepreneurial journey across industries
- Exclusive interview with Tether’s CEO on stablecoins, liquidity, regulation, and cross-border commerce
- Digital finance as new financial infrastructure for Asian and global markets
Luxury and Manufacturing Leadership
- Jérôme Lambert on leadership across heritage, creativity, and global brand management
- Wang Laichun’s journey from factory worker to global business leader
- Manufacturing excellence, operational discipline, and social mobility in Asia’s industrial rise
Editorial Note
Excellence is built, not inherited
The 2025 Q2 issue of Asia Weekly is organized around a simple but powerful idea: excellence is built in children through guidance, discipline, opportunity, and care; in companies through strategy, execution, and resilience; and in industries through innovation, trust, and the ability to cross old boundaries.
Together, these features show excellence in many forms: a child’s academic path, a founder’s decision, a financial platform’s evolution, a luxury executive’s judgment, and a factory worker’s rise to global leadership.