Meet Asia's Richest Billionaires


BANGALORE: There is a never dying craze to know who is the richest person on earth. Like previous year, Bloomberg has released the list of richest persons on earth, and it is garnering a lot of attention this time too. While the top order has not changed much, Bill Gates, the Microsoft founder, is still the richest man on earth, it is interesting to see many Asians making it to the rankings.     

We list below the top richest Billionaires’ of Asia as ranked by the Bloomberg in its Billionaires’ Index 2014.

#1 Li Ka-Shing, Hong Kong, $31.2 billion Realty

Asia's powerful and richest man owns Hutchison Whampoa a renowned multinational conglomerate committed to innovation and technology.

Our diverse businesses employ over 260,000 people in 52 countries across the world. In 1981, Li founded Shantou University (STU), the only privately funded public university in China with a commitment of over HK$6.2 billion to date.

STU is the cornerstone project of the foundation and a platform to instigate reforms in the higher education sector in China. To date, Shantou University has educated over 100,000 students, including over 35,000 medical school students.

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