Five Taiwanese entrepreneurs on Forbes list of billionaires

2006-03-11 / CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY /

Five Taiwan entrepreneurs have been included on the 2006 list of the world's billionaires released Thursday by Forbes magazine.
A record 793 billionaires worth a combined US$2.6 trillion are on this year's list.

Of the five Taiwanese on the list, Formosa Plastics Group Chairman Wang Yung-ching (王永慶) ranks 107th with a net worth of US$5.4 billion; Hon Hai Precision Chairman Terry Guo ranks 147th with a net worth of US$4.3 billion; Fubon Group Chairman Tsai Wan-tsai (蔡萬才) and family rank 207th with a net worth of US$3.3 billion; Via Technologies Inc. Chairwoman Cher Wang and her husband, the company's president Chen Wen-chi, rank 365th with a net worth of US$2.1 billion; and Quanta (廣達) Computer Chairman Barry Lam (林百里) ranks 486th with a net worth of US$1.6 billion.

A total of 115 billionaires are from the Asia-Pacific region, with Japan having the largest number at 28.

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They benefited greatly by doing business in China.

yeah, generally, businessmen nowadays love china. that's the same with japanese businessmen also.

Yep. Yep. The Japanese are usually ahead of their time with heated toilets and gay samurai films...

well thats jsut weak compare to Li Ka-shing's networth of $13billion

http://www.forbes.com/static/bill2005/LIRS...datatype=Person

^lol was about to say that



lol wtf?

why not? huge population, government happy to spend big to encourage eco growth...china is a dream market for business people.

Does this news really make any of our lives better?

so your saying that most topics on this forum should make our lives better?