Oliver Stone has done cinematic portraits of Nixon and George W Bush, and has opinions about them and just about everything else

Sir John Bond, former HSBC chairman, talks about the meltdown, Chinese history and how Hong Kong rises to crises

Tony Fernandes brought no-frills flying to Asia, and his life ambition is to buy Singapore Airlines

At 93, Les Paul, the inventor of the electric guitar and multiple track recording, is still “chasing sound”

William Pedersen designed Hong Kong’s newest signature tower and the Shanghai World Financial Center. The hassles in Shanghai were a pain in the superstructure

Steve Russell, once known as Tikrit’s “Poison Dwarf,” returns to his old battleground and finds a much improved Iraq

Thai industrial estate tycoon Vikrom Kromadit inherited hot blood – and he nearly murdered his own father