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Forbes
15-05-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Forbes Releases 10th Edition Of 30 Under 30 Asia List
2025 List Highlights 300 Outstanding Young Entrepreneurs and Innovators from across the Asia-Pacific Region #ForbesU30Asia #ForbesUnder30 SINGAPORE (May 15, 2025) – Forbes released today the 10th annual edition of its '30 Under 30 Asia' list, featuring 300 young entrepreneurs, leaders and innovators across the Asia-Pacific region, all under the age of 30, with a bold vision for the future, that is largely powered by artificial intelligence. The Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Class of 2025 features 300 notable listees selected across 10 categories, including AI; Consumer & Enterprise Technology; Entertainment & Sports; Finance & Venture Capital; Healthcare & Science; Industry, Manufacturing & Energy; Retail & Ecommerce; Social Impact; Social Media, Marketing & Advertising and The Arts (Art & Style, Food & Drink). Among those featured on this year's list are Korean singer, actor and model Cha Eun-woo; K-pop band Stray Kids; up-and-coming Singaporean singer-songwriter Shazza; Korean Chef and winner of Netflix's Culinary Class Wars Sungjun Kwon; Bollywood actress and Chanel's first Indian brand ambassador Ananya Panday; Charlotte Vieira, Cofounder of Antler-backed Australian dating app Humpday; Olympic medalist and gymnast Shinnosuke Oka from Japan; Manu Nair and Prashant Sharma, cofounders of India's spacetech startup Ethereal Exploration Guild; Xi Yue, Cofounder of Beijing-based humanoid robot maker Robotera; Australia's Andrew Pankevicius, Lucas Sargent and Alexander Valente, Cofounders of Redactive which helps companies develop generative AI-based applications; Turzo Bose and Lamia Sreya Rahman, Cofounders of Hong Kong's Vidi Labs which develops wearable cameras and "seeing" AI for the visually impaired; Singapore's Lee Ray Sheng and Ye Anran, Cofounders of A Hot Hideout, a spicy noodles and hotpot restaurant chain; South Korea's Byeoli Choi, Cofounder and CEO of Movin, a developer of AI-based real-time motion capture devices; Thailand's Kantinan Tunveenukoon, cofounder of battery-powered motorcycles Sleek EV; India's Jinali Mody who founded Banofi Leather, an alternative to traditional leather products using fiber from banana crop waste; Kazuma Kishida, who cofounded Japan's Dioseve, which develops technologies to aid infertility treatment for women and Indonesian environmental activist and social media influencer Andrew Brule. Rana Wehbe Watson, Editorial Director, Forbes Asia and Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia Editor, said: 'In this landmark 10th edition of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list, we celebrate a decade of exceptional talent and innovation by highlighting a new generation of entrepreneurs and young leaders who exemplify resilience and creativity as they battle tougher business conditions.' 'Many are using AI to refine their value propositions and attract investors in fields including healthcare and finance. Others are building niche businesses aimed at a local customer base as uncertainty looms over global trade.' Featured highlights on the '30 Under 30 Asia' list include: The 2025 list features a diverse set of 30 Under 30 Asia listees, with 20 countries and territories represented across the Asia-Pacific region. India had the most with 94 entries, followed by Australia (32), China (30), Japan (25), and South Korea (23). Singapore and Indonesia each had 19 entries. To source candidates for the list, Forbes reporters and editors combed through thousands of online submissions, as well as tapped industry sources and list alumni for recommendations. More than 4,500 candidates were evaluated by the Forbes Asia team and a panel of independent, expert judges on a variety of factors, including (but not limited to) funding and/or revenue, social and industry impact, product-market fit, inventiveness and potential. All final listers must be 29 or younger as of December 31, 2024. Listees were vetted and selected by a panel of accomplished and acclaimed judges in each category. The judges are Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Chairperson of HCLTech and Trustee of Shiv Nadar Foundation; Kai-Fu Lee, Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures; Solina Chau,Director at Li Ka Shing Foundation and Cofounder of Horizons Ventures; S.D. Shibulal, Cofounder of Infosys and Axilor Ventures; Kishin RK, Founder and CEO of RB Capital; Allan Zeman, Founder and Chairman of Lan Kwai Fong Group; Kuok Meng Ru, Founder and Group CEO of Caldecott Music Group; Nisa Leung,Healthcare investor; Arif Rachmat, Cofounder and Executive Chairman of TAP Group; Patrick Grove, Cofounder and Group CEO of Catcha Group; InKyung Lee, Partner at MBK Partners; Fang Hongbo, Chairman and CEO of Midea Group; David Gowdey, Managing Partner at Jungle Ventures; Brian Gu, Vice Chairman and President of Xpeng; Paul Ronalds, Founder and CEO of Save the Children Global Ventures; Janice Lee,CEO of Viu; Tan Yinglan, Founding Managing Partner at Insignia Ventures Partners; Annabelle Yu Long, Founding and Managing Partner at Bertelsmann Asia Investments; Magnus Grimeland, Founder and CEO of Antler; Akiko Naka, Founder and CEO of Wantedly; Helen Wong, Managing Partner at AC Ventures; Hian Goh, Founding Partner at OpenSpace Ventures; Ronald Akili, CEO of PTT Family; Vinnie Lauria, Founding Partner at Golden Gate Ventures; Rachel Lim, Cofounder of Love, Bonito (Class of 2016); Eric Gnock Fah, Cofounder and COO of Klook (Class of 2017); Alice Chang, Founder and CEO of Perfect Corp; Meena Ganesh,Cofounder and Chairperson of Portea Medical; Snehal Patel, Managing Director at Saena Partners; Hua Fung Teh, Cofounder and Group President of ONE and Nicole Warne, Founder of Gary Pepper Girl (Class of 2016). For the complete Forbes 2025 30 Under 30 Asia package, visit here. On social media, please follow @ForbesAsia on Facebook | X | Instagram About Forbes: Forbes champions success by celebrating those who have made it, and those who aspire to make it. Forbes convenes and curates the most influential leaders and entrepreneurs who are driving change, transforming business and making a significant impact on the world. The Forbes brand today reaches more than 140 million people worldwide through its trusted journalism, signature LIVE and Forbes Virtual events, custom marketing programs and 42 licensed local editions in 68 countries. Forbes Media's brand extensions include real estate, education and financial services license agreements. Forbes Asia Media Contact: Catherine Ong, cath@ or +65 9697 0007 Forbes Asia Media Contact: Chenxi Wang, chenxi@ or cell: +65 8187 3215
The Guardian
16-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy review – our hapless heroine is sharper, wiser and funnier
There is something rather affecting about growing up and growing older alongside a fictional character. Particularly when, unlike the aspiration Barbies of Sex and the City, that character is permitted to show the inevitable wear-and-tear of being a middle-aged mum of two. Checking in with familiar faces – Jesse and Céline from Richard Linklater's Before movies, for example; or in this case, Bridget Jones and her disreputable band of booze buddies – feels somehow more cherishable when those faces reflect the same rough patches and tough times we all endure. It has been nearly a quarter of a century since Renée Zellweger first stumbled on to our screens as the gauche, accident-prone klutz Bridget Jones. And, in common with the core friendships that define us, our relationship with the character has evolved and deepened. The 2001 Bridget of Bridget Jones's Diary was an insecure hot mess fuelled by vat-sized glasses of house white (or 'party petrol' as Sally Phillips's Shazza pithily describes it). Today's Bridget achieved her happy-ever-after fairytale ending. She married Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), had two adorable kids and moved barely a yoga mat's distance from Hampstead Heath, only to have it all snatched away. Mark, we learn, was killed while on a humanitarian mission in Sudan. Four years on, Bridget is older, wiser, sharper, funnier and marginally less dependent on pratfalls to deliver laughs. All of which means that this, the fourth film in the series based on Helen Fielding's beloved creation, is the most satisfying and unexpectedly touching Jones outing since the first movie. British director Michael Morris, best known for the American indie drama To Leslie, which earned an Oscar nomination for Andrea Riseborough, takes over the reins of the franchise from Sharon Maguire (Bridget Jones's Diary; Bridget Jones's Baby) and Beeban Kidron (The Edge of Reason), demonstrating slick comic timing and an affinity for Bridget's trademark combination of supreme awkwardness and goofy extraversion. This is a woman who never saw a tinselly Christmas tree ornament that couldn't be repurposed as a pair of earrings. Here, she's putting a brave face on her bereavement and raising her two children to cherish their father's memory but not be overwhelmed by it. The kids are thriving, give or take a bit of preteen angst, but Bridget looks as though she's showering in gin when she showers at all, spends most of the day in her pyjamas and is barely holding it together. The film's skittish editing and agitated camera capture the low-level panic and barely controlled chaos of running the daily lives of two eccentric primary school kids. A pep talk from her no-nonsense gynaecologist Dr Rawlings (a gloriously acidic turn from Emma Thompson) prompts Bridget to get back to work as a TV producer on a daytime chat show (the film rather glosses over the financial realities of the past four years). A well-meaning friend stages a Tinder-vention and gets Bridget on to the apps and back into the dating pool. Romantic options include the much younger Roxster (One Day's Leo Woodall, gamely permitting himself to be well and truly objectified in the name of comedy). Then there's Mr Wallaker (Chiwetel Ejiofor), Bridget's son Billy's new science teacher. Mr Wallaker is intimidatingly outdoorsy and is rather too fond of fascistic whistleblowing and barking orders at small children. But there's a spark between Bridget and the teacher that is kindled during a rain-sodden outward bound trip. Ultimately, though, while we're invested in the idea of Bridget getting her second chance at a happy ending, it's the film's returning characters rather than the new ones that deliver heart and humour. Most welcome is Hugh Grant's raffish Daniel Cleaver, who was missing, presumed dead, for most of the last film, 2016's Bridget Jones's Baby. It's a role that Grant wears as easily as one of Daniel's dashing blazers, pouring incorrigible charm into every wildly inappropriate line. But the screenplay (by Fielding, Dan Mazer and Abi Morgan) is smart enough to let Daniel grow and even mature slightly as a character. A scene in which he muses on their enduring friendship packs an unexpected emotional wallop. Not everything flows. You suspect that a subplot might have been lost along the way: Isla Fisher is introduced as a glamorous neighbour whose no-fucks-given parenting style Bridget admires from afar. But then Fisher disappears from the film, never to be acknowledged again. It's a curious decision that disrupts the storytelling a little. For the most part, though, this reunion with Bridget is a joy. Like a big old glass of pub wine, it might not be particularly complex or sophisticated but, my goodness, it hits the spot. In UK and Irish cinemas
