Wednesday, 8 March 2017 Beijing is listed as the billionaire capital of the world for the second year running, ahead of New York, and followed by Hong Kong and Shenzhen, according to the latest findings in the Hurun Global Rich List 2017 released on Tuesday. Bill Gates remains the …
Read More »Vincent Tan pledges 5,000 homes for poor Filipinos
Tuesday, 31 January 2017 ANGAT: Malaysian billionaire Vincent Tan has promised to build 5,000 homes for poor Filipinos with the help of the Gawad Kalinga (GK, in english gift of care) Community Development Foundation. “The rich became rich because a lot of poor people supported their businesses,” Tan said during …
Read More »Facebook pulls page, limits posting for exiled Chinese tycoon Guo
Tuesday, 3 October 2017 : Facebook has taken down a page affiliated with China’s highest profile fugitive, exiled billionaire Guo Wengui, and temporarily restricted his ability to post on his profile, citing violations of its community standards. Guo, who is living in New York, has been using social media to make …
Read More »Brazilian billionaire Joesley Batista surrenders to police
Monday, 11 September 2017 : Billionaire Joesley Batista, one of the owners of JBS SA, the world´s largest meatpacker, and executive Ricardo Saud surrendered on Sunday and were arrested by Brazilian police, their lawyer said. Batista and Saud went to federal police headquarters in Sao Paulo on Sunday afternoon and …
Read More »Billionaire Branson stays put on private island in path of Hurricane Irma
Thursday, 7 September 2017 : British billionaire Richard Branson said he would be hunkering down in his concrete wine cellar to face Hurricane Irma as it hurtles closer to his private island of Necker in the British Virgin Islands. “We have just experienced a night of howling wind and rain …
Read More »Chinese billionaire’s vision of an empire to rival Apple, Tesla and Amazon fading fast
Wednesday, 5 July 2017 HONG KONG: Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting, who once envisioned building an empire that would rival US tech giants Apple, Tesla and Amazon, is seeing it fall apart before his eyes. The 44-year-old founder of internet media company LeEco has been forced to abort ambitious overseas expansion, …
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