"People said you couldn't make money in educational toys, " he says in his modest headquarters in Hong Kong's New Territories.

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Last week during an arranged interview between STAR's president, Bruce Churchill, and Asiaweek's Alexandra A. Seno and Tim Healy at the company's headquarters in Hong Kong, Murdoch dropped by to sit in and listen.

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