This week’s readings/links include Dechen Palmo on how Tibet’s rivers will determine Asia’s future, an interview with author and historian William Dalrymple, a Reuters investigation into how the relatives and allies of Cambodia’s leaders amassed wealth overseas, the founders of MercadoLibre on taking risks and being resilient and George Soros on the rise of nationalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

• Tibet’s rivers will determine Asia’s future: Countless lives and ecosystems are being risked in the name of “development” and geopolitics.
• Conversation with William Dalrymple: The untold tale of how one ruthless company subjugated a subcontinent.
• Khmer Riche: How relatives and allies of Cambodia’s leader amassed wealth overseas.
• Founders of MercadoLibre: On taking risks and being resilient.
• George Soros: The rise of nationalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall.