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Hotpot-restaurant tycoon Zhang Yong has topped the latest Forbes Singapore Rich List. Zhang, the founder of the Haidilao restaurant business, has an estimated net worth of US$13.8 billion (US$19.2 billion) – enough to push last year’s richest Singaporeans,…
Pham Nhat Vuong is the first Vietnamese to enter the list of the world’s 200 wealthiest people. He has an estimated worth of $7.5 billion. Vuong, who heads the Vingroup conglomerate, is 198th on the real time billionaires ranking updated by Forbes magazine on…
Forbes Vietnam has released its third annual list of the 40 most valuable brands in Vietnam, putting their total value at $8.1 billion. The value is 50 percent up from last year. Dairy giant Vinamilk and military-run telecom firm Viettel remain the top two as…
Forbes has released the 16th annual Forbes Global 2000 edition which lists the top 10 largest apparel retail companies in the world. The list includes publicly-traded companies from 60 countries and has been complied using data from FactSet Research systems…
Pham Nhat Vuong, Vietnam’s first billionaire and owner of giant conglomerate Vingroup, has leapt 97 positions to become the 543rd richest person in the world, released on Tuesday. The magazine’s real-time list of the world’s billionaires showed that Vuong’s…
Vietnam’s richest man and first billionaire has climbed past U.S. President Donald Trump on Forbes magazine’s real time list of the world’s billionaires. Pham Nhat Vuong, founder and chairman of Vingroup JSC., was the world’s 640th richest person with a net…
Business tycoon Henry Sy topped Forbes’ list of richest Filipinos, with a 2017 net worth of $12.7 billion. This is his 10th consecutive time to top the list. However, this is lower than his 2016 net worth of $13.7 billion. Sy is the 94th richest billionaire…
Hong Kong is known to be a melting pot of activities, yet there’s one pastime in particular that locals and visitors alike always gravitate toward: shopping. The big malls like Pacific Place and Times Square definitely give shopaholics a run for their money,…
The Chearavanont and Chirathivat families are among the 50 richest Asia families in 2016 as ranked by Forbes Asia magazine. Families in the top five of this year’s list are in businesses that span technology, livestock, real estate and oil and gas, the…
Indonesia is set to host the Forbes Global CEO Conference for a second time. The gathering will see business players and thought leaders from around the world discuss possible solutions to the continuous global economic slump. Now in its 16th year, the…
Three Filipino companies made it into Forbes’ list of 50 best-performing listed firms in Asia this year. Jollibee Foods Corp., Puregold Price Club, Inc. and Robinsons Retail Holdings Inc. were included among “Asia’s Fab 50 Companies,” compiled by Forbes…
I am admittedly an Amazon shopping addict, so it was interesting to have a long conversation recently with Chinese colleagues in Nanning about their own growing addictions to online shopping. They are big fans of Taobao, although they also use other…
Two Asian retail leaders have been added to Forbes magazine’s annual list of 50 most powerful businesswomen in Asia – in The Philippines and Vietnam. They are Robina Gokongwei-Pe, the president and COO of Robinsons Retail Holdings, the second-largest…
