Each year Forbes Asia publishes the best big companies in Asia under the title “Asia’s Fab 50”. The rankings are based on earnings, revenues and stock prices. For 1010, the magazine evaluated 936 Asian companies that had revenues or market capitalization of at least US $ 3.0 billion.

The table below lists the top 50 Asian public companies:

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Source: Forbes Asia

The emerging markets of India and China have the largest representation in this list with 16 companies each.The tremendous growth of these economies in the past few years is incredible. When the ranking was first released in 2005, just 5 Chinese and 3 Indian companies made it to the list. For the second year in a row there were no companies represented by Philippines and Malaysia.

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