Asian Games: The billionaire bridge player who holds all the cards

As one of Indonesia's two richest men, Michael Bambang Hartono wants for little -- and especially now that he has an Asian Games medal in his favorite pastime, bridge. The tobacco and banking multi-billionaire was instrumental in persuading organizers to include the card game, slightly incongruously, in the regional Olympics for the first time. At the Jakarta bridge venue, the 78-year-old tycoon is comfortably equipped, as befits his status as one of the vast Southeast Asian country's most powerful men. Hartono has his own guarded VIP area where he can receive guests and conduct interviews, with its own meeting room, a flat-screen TK and a bed where he can take a nap. "We...

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