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Concerns over Kim Jong Un's nuclear programme have re-emerged all with a report from the UN's atomic energy watchdog suggesting North Korea's plutonium production could be ramping up.
And in China, government reforms are targeting the wealth of the country's richest and most famous tech tycoons.
Billionaires like Jack Ma are trying to quickly give as much as they can to charitable causes as a way to appease the government.
Ed White is a correspondent with the Financial Times.
