Faisal Tahir Khan is not your average young entrepreneur. His background proves that hard work can indeed lead to an incredible amount of success. From his company’s in Kuala Lumpur to Jeddah to London, one of Faisal’s key ingredients to success is: building trust and confidence with your clients and network. An incredibly sincere and informed person, Faisal gave us some time to chat:

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Faisal Tahir Khan: An Entrepreneur with a Global Initiative

Newt Gingrich said his advocacy for policies that would help his clients was not evidence he acted as a lobbyist.

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The Caucus: Gingrich Says He Was Acting as a Citizen

Sometime in 2012, I will begin the ninth year of my life under an FBI gag order, which began when I received what is known as a national security letter at the small Internet service provider I owned. On that day in 2004 (the exact date is redacted from court papers, so I can’t reveal it), an FBI agent came to my office and handed me a letter. It demanded that I turn over information about one of my clients and forbade me from telling “any person” that the government had approached me. Read full article > >

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How the Patriot Act stripped me of my free-speech rights

Here’s a great way for magazines to make more money: New York magazine has reportedly brokered a deal with International Creative Management to adapt its features for film and television. The New York Times is one of ICM’s other clients, and under…

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New York Magazine Looks for Movie Deals

by Adam Minter This the third of seven posts I’m calling–for organizational purposes–Wasted 7/7. Previous in the series: 1/7 , 2/7 . Below, a photo of test cars being deposited into a 2000-horsepower metal shredder at the Toyota Metal facility outside of Nagoya, Japan. This is how automobiles are recycled in the developed world–a place where labor is too expensive to pay for more careful, deliberate manual disassembly, and there are just too many cars and too few hands to take them apart, anyway. Take, for example, Toyota Metal: its two shredders have been responsible for reducing more than two million automobiles (it recycles local junkers as well as company test vehicles) into fist-sized chunks of metal in its 40-year history. And that’s actually quite modest by metal shredder standards. Indeed, there are roughly 850 of these machines, worldwide, with many equipped to tear apart much bigger volumes, and much more stubborn varieties of steel, than Toyota’s relatively light-weight test vehicles. For another example: China, recently the world’s top automobile market will soon be the world’s biggest source of the mixed stream of fist-sized and smaller chunks of metal, plastic, foam and whatever people lost beneath the seats , produced when cars are shredded. It works like this: magnets capture and segregate the steel that comes out of a shredder–steel much favored by steel mills who, among other clients, count automobile manufacturers as important destinations for their goods. Shredder, to steel mill, to car manufacturer, to consumer and then back again–it’s a profitable, usually efficient cycle, developed and perfected by–no surprise–Americans in the midst of their mid-twentieth century automobile love affair ( the metal shredder was developed in mid-century Texas ). And you can be sure that China’s economic planners, steel mills and recycling industry leaders have studied this cycle intently, as they promote a growth model partially driven by an expanding automobile industry. Already, China is home to one of the world’s biggest metal shredders, and more are on order, tracking perfectly the displacement of the U.S. as the world’s biggest automobile consumer . Adam Minter is an American writer in Shanghai, China. He blogs at Shanghai Scrap .

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The Metal Shredders of Toyota

Public interest groups urged Jeffrey A. Sachs, who is helping Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on health care policy, to identify the clients of his private consulting business.

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Pressure Put on Adviser to Cuomo

The lawyer representing two U.S. hikers jailed in Iran has been denied a request to visit his clients on the eve of their trial, he told CNN on Saturday.

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U.S. hikers set to stand trial in Iran

PayPal will no longer work with WikiLeaks since it violates their company policy, the money-exchange service announced Friday. A PayPal blog post said that their clients cannot use their services for “any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate…

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PayPal Cuts Off WikiLeaks

A loan shark who raped, blackmailed and assaulted his clients while charging them up to 125% interest is stripped of his assets.

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Rapist loan shark stripped of £1m

An early sign of dementia is an inability to understand money, leaving some financial advisers in a bind with their clients.

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The Vanishing Mind: Money Woes Can Be Early Clue to Alzheimer’s

Stylist-turned-designer Adrien Sauvage debuts a collection of sharply-cut suits for the modern man With a Tumblr site as his look book, stylist-turned-designer Adrien Sauvage puts a fresh spin on men’s suiting by casting and personally photographing some of art and music’s finest as models for his debut collection. The black-and-white project, called “This is Not a Suit,” sets the stage for his first collection of suits that mix modern styles with Saville Row-level cuts. As an experienced tailor, the young upstart’s transformation from styling made a natural progression to designing, with the impeccably-conceived collection speaking for itself. Like many new labels, Sauvage’s motivation was simply that he and his clients couldn’t get the choice or quality of cut and style they desired. With this first collection, Sauvage focuses on fit, offering two styles—a sport jacket and two double-breasted jackets—for the country, as well as a day and evening suit. Jackets, cut rakishly short, feature working horn buttons as the standard and a plunging lapel for the essential V-shape aesthetic. Double-vented for a flattering shape around hips, the jackets also have a little extra volume worked into the sleeves for added mobility. Championing precise tailoring, Sauvage leaves the logos and insignias behind for a subtly smooth air and crisp appearance. The only acknowledgment—an A. Sauvage label on the interior of the jacket—has info about its origin along with notes about its inspiration. The debut A. Sauvage collection hits stores Fall 2010 and will be available at Harrods and Matches .

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A. Sauvage