https://www.scmp.com/rss/304760/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com As a child in rural Bangladesh, Orola Dalbot, 29, enjoyed growing up around her stepfather, Noten. Her father died when she was small and her mother remarried soon after. Noten was handsome and energetic, with curly dark hair and a broad smile. "I thought my mother was lucky," Orola says, when we meet in the dusty, sunbaked courtyard of her family home in the central forest region of Modhupur. "I hoped I'd find a husband like him one day." When she reached puberty, however, Orola learned a truth... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1273917/family-affairs?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1273917/family-affairs?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 What's the first designer item you ever bought?" I ask 42-year-old Vietnamese tycoon Le Hong Thuy Tien as we cruise through Ho Chi Minh City in her beast-like black Bentley. It has come to this. I have been asking about her childhood during the Vietnam war (or the American war, as it's known here) for the past half hour. She has politely refused to be drawn. Fawning questions about how filthy rich she is are all I have left. "That's a great question!" she exclaims, her perfect eyebrows arching... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1237647/pursuit-happine?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1237647/pursuit-happine?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 18 May 2013 16:00:00 +0000