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TO OUR READERS: Power in the Making (of a Special Issue)
THE GENERALS OF REFORM: The reformers call the shots

NO. 1: Two leading the charge for change
RANKING: Our annual listing of Asia's power players

KINGS: Above it all, the monarchs of Thailand and Cambodia
DOWN AND OUT: Who was taken off the list and why
CLOUT: The best and worst power movers in 1999
UP-AND-COMERS: The ones to watch in coming years
THE RANKINGS 1999


AND NOW ON STAGE . . .
1999 RANKINGS 1998 1997
1. Kim Dae Jung 4 --
1. Zhu Rongji 3 5
3. Jiang Zemin 2 1
4. Kim Jong Il 15 11
5. Lee Teng-hui 8 7
6. Goh Chok Tong 7 12
7. Chuan Leekpai 13 --
8. Yanagisawa Hakuo* -- --
9. Li Ka-shing 25 25
10. Hubert Neiss* -- --
11. Obuchi Keizo* -- --
12. Nonaka Hiromu* -- --
13. Joseph Estrada 29 --
14. Mahathir Mohamad 10 2
15. Idei Nobuyuki 16 22
16. Lee Hun Jai* -- --
17. Daim Zainuddin 27 32
18. Lee Hsien Loong 39 --
19. Donald Tsang Yam-kuen 37 --
20. Rupert Murdoch 6 4
21. Lee Kuan Yew 19 18
22. Hun Sen 24 43
23. Abdurrahman Wahid* -- 20
24. Miyazawa Kiichi* -- --
25. Sultan of Brunei 11 10
26. Megawati Sukarnoputri* -- --
27. Anwar Ibrahim 26 34
28. Tarrin Nimmanhaeminda* -- --
29. Suharto* -- 3
30. Son Masayoshi* -- --
31. B.J. Habibie* -- --
32. Wiranto* -- --
33. Nawaz Sharif 21 19
34. Lucio Tan* -- 35
35. Amien Rais* -- --
36. Hu Jintao 28 --
37. Li Peng 20 17
38. Eugenio Lopez 38 49
39. Manuel Pangilinan* -- --
40. A.B. Vajpayee 5 --
41. Tung Chee-hwa 36 40
42. Hasina Wajed 32 33
43. Chandrika Kumaratunga 40 37
44. Lee Kun Hee 41 39
45. Khin Nyunt 31 --
46. Le Kha Phieu 34 --
47. Aung San Suu Kyi* -- --
48. Abdullah Badawi* -- --
49. Li Hongzhi* -- --
50. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail* -- --
* Added to the list this year
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