Forbes’ World Richest Royals

The royals, kings and queen, in this 21st century may not enjoy the luxury of unreserved admiration, adulation and loyalty from their subjects like it used to be not so long ago. But certainly they still enjoy the luxury of “unlimited” wealth to enjoy the extravagant lives money can buy. In its 20th August edition, Forbes magazine published the list of richest existing royals, not the richest ordinary people, two of whom are coming from South East Asian countries, Thailand and Brunei. Surprisingly, King Bumiphol of Thailand got the “gold medal.” Please watch carefully the list below, who knows you are among those top list kings and queens. :)
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Indonesia Richest Government officials 2008

State officials

Below is the list of the names of Indonesia’s 12 richest state officials and how much money they have.

Name Title Wealth
Aburizal Bakrie Indonesian Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare $1.05 billion
Hamengkubuwono X Sultan of Yogyakarta $140 million
Fadel Muhammad Governor of Gorontalo $16, 638, 186
Fahmi Idris Indonesian Minister of Industry $9, 423, 488
Zaulkifli Nurdin Governor of Jambi $6, 543, 216
Bun Bunan EJ Hutapea Deputy Governor of Bank of Indonesia $5, 927, 470
Fauzi Bowo Governor of Jakarta $4, 410, 803
Meutia F. Hatta Indonesian State Minister for Women’s Empowerment $4, 271, 758
Ginandjar Kartasasminata Indonesian Chairman of Regional Parliament $3, 246, 939
Budiarsa S. Member of Indonesian House of Representatives $2, 147, 909
Ratu Atut Chosiyah Governor Banten $1, 978, 968

Source: Wikipedia.com

Malaysian Richest People Forbes 2008

The top 40 richest in Malaysia for 2008 are:

  1. Robert Kuok USD 10 billion, 84, married, 8 children.
    Kuok Group, Pacific Carriers Ltd, Transmile Group, Wilmar International
  2. Ananda Krishnan USD 7.2 billion, 70, married, 3 children.
    Maxis Comminications, Aircel Ltd, Astro All Asia Networks
  3. Lee Shin Cheng USD 5.5 billion, 69, married, 6 children.
    IOI Group
  4. Teh Hong Piow USD 3.5 billion, 78, married, 4 children.
    Public Bank
  5. Lee Kim Hua & family USD 3.4 billion, 79, widow, 6 children.
    Genting Group
  6. Quek Leng Chan USD 2.4 billion, 67, married, 3 children.
    Hong Leong Group, Guoco Group, Rank Group
  7. Yeoh Tiong Lay and family USD 2.1 billion, 78, widow, 7 children.
    YTL Corporation
  8. Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary USD 1.8 billion, 56, married, 5 children.
    Malaysia Mining Corporation (MMC), Malaysia Johor Port, Malakoff, Gas Malaysia
  9. Vincent Tan USD 1.3 billion, 56, married, 11 children.
    Berjaya Group
  10. Tiong Hiew King USD 1.1 billion, 78, married, 4 children.
    Rimbunan Hijau Group, Tri-M Technologies
  11. Azman Hashim USD 700 million, 68, married, 5 children.
    AMCorp Group, Ambank
  12. William H. J. Cheng USD 660 million, 65, married, 3 children.
    Lion Group
  13. Lee Swee Eng USD 495 million, 52, married.
    KNM Group
  14. Ong Beng Seng USD 470 million, 63, married, 2 children.
    Hotel Properties Ltd, Natsteel
  15. Lim Kok Thay USD 345 million, 56, married, 3 children.
    Genting Group, Star Cruises. Alliance Global
  16. Vinod Sekhar USD 320 million, 40, married, 2 children.
    Petra Group, Green Rubber Global
  17. Lee Oi Hian USD 300 million, 57, married, 4 children.
    Kuala Lumpur Kepong, Crabtree & Evelyn
  18. Yaw Teck Seng USD 295 million, 70, married.
    Samling Group
  19. Anthony Fernandes USD 290 million, 44, married.
    AirAsia, Tune Hotel, AirAsia X
  20. Mokhzani Mahathir USD 285 million, 47, married, 5 children.
    Kencana
  21. Kamarudin Meranun USD 280 million, 47, married, 5 children.
    AirAsia, Tune Hotel, AirAsia X
  22. Jeffrey Cheah USD 275 million, 63, married, 3 children.
    Sunway Group
  23. Lee Hau Hian USD 250 million, 55, married, 1 children.
    Batu Kawan, Kuala Lumpur Kepong
  24. Chong Chook Yew USD 245 million, 86, widow, 4 children.
    Selangor Properties
  25. Yaw Chee Ming USD 240 million, 49, married.
    Samling Group
  26. G. Gnanalingam USD 230 million, 63, married, 3 children.
    Westports
  27. Lim Wee Chai USD 200 million, 50, married, 2 children.
    Top Glove
  28. Kua Sian Kooi USD 195 million, 55, married, 4 children.
    Kurnia Asia
  29. Lau Cho Kun USD 185 million, 72, married.
    Gek Poh Holding, Malaysian Mosaics, Hap Seng
  30. Abdul Hamed Sepawi USD 180 million, 58, married, 2 children.
    Ta Ann
  31. David Law Tien Seng USD 165 million.
    Midwest, Sinosteel, T.S.Law Holding
  32. Tiah Thee Kian USD 163 million, 61, married, 5 children.
    TA Enterprise
  33. Liew Kee Sin USD 160 million, 50, married, 4 children.
    SP Setia
  34. Ahmayuddin Ahmad USD 155 million, 51, married, 4 children.
    Westports, Pelikan
  35. Eleena Azlan Shah USD 150 million, 48, married.
    Gamuda
  36. Lin Yun Ling USD 145 million, 53, married, 2 children.
    Gamuda
  37. Ong Leong Huat USD 130 million, 64, married, 4 children.
    OSK Group
  38. Lim Thian Kiat USD 115 million, 50, divorced.
    Former head of conglomerate Multi-Purpose
  39. Khoo Kay Peng USD 110 million, 69.
    MUI, Laura Ashley
  40. Nazir Razak USD 100 million, 41, married.
    CIMB, Bumiputra Commerce Holdings

Courtesy: Forbes.com

Philippines 40 Richest Forbes 2008

Rank Name Net Worth ($mil) Age
1 Henry Sy & family 3,100 83
2 Lucio Tan & family 1,500 74
3 Jaime Zobel de Ayala & family 1,200 74
4 Andrew Tan 700 57
5 Tony Tan Caktiong & family 690 58
6 John Gokongwei Jr. & family 680 81
7 Eduardo Cojuangco Jr. 610 73
8 Enrique Razon Jr. 525 48
9 George Ty & family 435 75
10 Inigo & Mercedes Zobel 430 NA
11 Manuel Villar 425 58
12 Emilio Yap & family 420 82
13 Vivian Que Azcona & family 360 NA
14 Beatrice Campos & family 325 NA
15 Luis Virata 270 54
16 Oscar Lopez & family 240 78
17 Andrew Gotianun 235 80
18 Alfonso Yuchengco & family 200 85
19 Mariano Tan & family 195 NA
20 Manuel Zamora 130 69
21 Menardo Jimenez & family 129 76
22 Gilberto Duavit & family 127 73
23 Alfredo Ramos 126 64
24 Jon Ramon Aboitiz & family 125 59
25 Felipe Gozon & family 110 68
26 David Consunji & family 105 87
27 Rolando & Rosalinda Hortaleza 90 49/51
28 Eugenio Lopez III & family 85 56
29 Betty Ang 80 NA
30 Tomas Alcantara & family 75 62
31 Lourdes Montinola & family 68 80
32 Salvador Zamora 67 62
33 Philip Ang 63 67
34 Wilfred Steven Uytengsu Sr. & family 55 81
35 Enrique Aboitiz & family 50 86
36 Frederick Dy 49 53
37 Bienvenido R. Tantoco Sr. & family 45 87
38 Jesus Tambunting 40 71
39 Manuel Pangilinan 39 62
40 Marixi Rufino-Prieto & family 30 68

Courtesy: forbes.com

MS Kaban

Malem Sambat (MS) Kaban SE MSi, born in Binjai, North Sumatra, 5 August 1958. Married Nurmala Dewi, is currently Minister of Forestry under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2004 - 2009).
Father: AM Kaban; Mother: S. Tarigan. Ethnicity: Bataknese
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Aulia Pohan

aulia pohan foto photo pictureAulia Pohan was born in Palembang, South Sumatra, 11 September 1945 was Bank Indonesia (Indonesia Central Bank) Deputy Governor between 1999 - 2004

Education
Finishing his Master in Economics Development from Boston University, USA.
Joining various educational programs abroad including;
Financial Programming Policy Course IMF, Washington;
ADB Training on Monetary and Fiscal Policies, Tokyo;
Workshop in Harvard University etc.
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Forbes 2008 India’s Richest People

Rank Name Net Worth ($bil) Age City
1 Lakshmi Mittal 51 57 London
2 Mukesh Ambani 49 50 Mumbai
3 Anil Ambani 45 48 Mumbai
4 Kushal Pal Singh 35 76 Delhi
5 Azim Premji 14.8 62 Bangalore
6 Sunil Mittal 12.5 50 Delhi
7 Shashi & Ravi Ruia 12 63 Mumbai
8 Ramesh Chandra 11.6 68 Delhi
9 Kumar Birla 11 40 Mumbai
10 Tulsi Tanti 10 49 Pune
11 Savitri Jindal 8.5 58 Delhi and Hisar
12 Anil Agarwal 7.4 54 London
13 Gautam Adani 6.7 45 Ahmedabad
14 Grandhi Rao 6.2 57 Bangalore
15 Adi Godrej 5.2 65 Mumbai
16 Uday Kotak 4.6 48 Mumbai
17 Indu Jain 4.4 71 Delhi
18 Shiv Nadar 4.3 62 Delhi
19 Anand Jain 4 50 Mumbai
20 Dilip Shanghvi 3.9 52 Mumbai
21 Jaiprakash Gaur 3.8 76 Delhi
22 Cyrus Poonawalla 3.1 67 Pune
23 Kalanithi Maran 2.7 42 Chennai
24 Subhash Chandra 2.6 56 Mumbai
25 Baba Kalyani 2.5 58 Pune
26 Rakesh Wadhawan 2.35 55 Mumbai
27 Rahul Bajaj 2.3 69 Pune
28 Malvinder & Shivinder Singh 2.25 35 Delhi
29 Venugopal Dhoot 2.2 56 Mumbai
30 Rajan Raheja 2.15 54 Mumbai
31 Niranjan Hiranandani 2.1 57 Mumbai
32 Vivek Burman 2 70 Delhi
33 L. Madhusudhan Rao 1.9 41 Hyderabad
34 Gautam Thapar 1.8 46 Delhi
35 Anurag Dikshit 1.75 35 Gibraltar
36 Vikas Oberoi 1.7 37 Mumbai
37 N.R. Narayana Murthy 1.69 61 Bangalore
38 Anu Aga 1.67 65 Pune
39 Gracias Saldanha 1.65 70 Mumbai
40 Vijay Mallya 1.6 51 Bangalore

Forbes 2008 40 Richest Japanese

Rank Name Net Worth ($bil) Age
1 Hiroshi Yamauchi 7.80 80
2 Akira Mori 7.70 71
3 Kunio Busujima 5.40 83
4 Nobutada Saji 5.30 62
5 Masayoshi Son 5.10 50
6 Tadashi Yanai 4.70 59
7 Eitaro Itoyama 4.50 65
8 Hiroshi Mikitani 3.80 43
9 Takemitsu Takizaki 3.20 62
10 Hiroko Takei 3.10 66
11 Masatoshi Ito 2.70 84
12 Kazuo Okada 2.20 65
13 Kanbei Kokubu 2.10 69
14 Masahiro Miki 2.00 52
15 Fukuzo Iwasaki 1.80 83
16 Yoshitaka Fukuda 1.75 60
17 Katsumi Tada 1.74 62
18 Ryoichi Jinnai 1.70 81
19 Kinoshita Brothers 1.65 NA
20 Shigenobu Nagamori 1.62 54
21 Han Chang-Woo 1.60 77
22 Yokyu Kanazawa & brothers 1.50 NA
23 Soichiro Fukutake 1.40 62
24 Yasumitsu Shigeta 1.20 43
25 Yasuhiro Fukushima 1.16 60
26 Tetsuro Funai 1.15 81
27 Minoru Mori 1.10 73
28 Minoru & Yuji Otsuka 1.04 85/54
29 Tadahiro Yoshida 1.00 61
30 Nobutoshi Shimamura 0.97 72
31 Ryuji Arai 0.94 61
32 Kazuo Inamori 0.89 76
33 Shoji Uehara 0.82 80
34 Kagemasa Kozuki 0.79 67
35 Chizuko & Michio Matsui 0.78 53/55
36 Hajime Satomi 0.76 66
37 Kenji Kasahara 0.74 32
38 Shoichiro Toyoda 0.73 83
39 Keiko & Yoichi Erikawa 0.72 59/57
40 Hiroyuki Inoue 0.72 63

Top 100 Richest People Forbes 2008

This list of the 100 wealthiest people is a list of the world’s 100 richest people as of February 11, 2008, based on each person’s total net worth according to Forbes Magazine.

1 Warren Buffett $62.0 billion United States
2 Carlos Slim Helú $60.0 billion Mexico
3 Bill Gates $58.0 billion United States
4 Lakshmi Mittal $45.0 billion India
5 Mukesh Ambani $43.0 billion India
6 Anil Ambani $42.0 billion India
7 Rinat Akhmetov $31.1 billion Ukraine
8 Ingvar Kamprad and family $31.0 billion Sweden
9 Kushal Pal Singh $30.0 billion India
10 Oleg Deripaska $28.0 billion Russia
11 Karl Albrecht $27.0 billion Germany
12 Li Ka-shing $26.5 billion Hong Kong
13 Sheldon Adelson $26.0 billion United States
14 Bernard Arnault $25.5 billion France
15 Lawrence Ellison $25.0 billion United States
16 Roman Abramovich $23.5 billion Russia
17 Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah $23.1 billion Brunei
18 Theo Albrecht $23.0 billion Germany
19 Liliane Bettencourt $22.9 billion France
20 Alexei Mordashov $21.2 billion Russia
21 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud $21.0 billion Saudi Arabia
22 Mikhail Fridman $20.8 billion Russia
23 Vladimir Lisin $20.3 billion Russia
24 Amancio Ortega $20.2 billion Spain
25 Raymond Kwok, Thomas Kwok, and Walter Kwok $19.9 billion ? 56, 57, and 58 Hong Kong
26 Mikhail Prokhorov $19.5 billion Russia
27 Vladimir Potanin $19.3 billion Russia
28 Christy Walton $19.2 billion United States
29 Jim Walton $19.2 billion United States
29 S. Robson Walton $19.2 billion United States
31 Lee Shau Kee $19.0 billion Hong Kong
31 Alice Walton $19.0 billion United States
33 David Thomson and family $18.9 billion Canada
34 Sergey Brin $18.7 billion United States
35 Larry Page $18.6 billion United States
36 Michael Otto and family $18.2 billion Germany
37 Stefan Persson $17.7 billion Sweden
38 Suleyman Kerimov $17.5 billion Russia
39 Charles Koch $17.0 billion United States
40 David H. Koch $17.0 billion United States
41 François Pinault and family $16.9 billion France
42 Michael Dell $16.4 billion United States
43 Paul Allen $16.0 billion United States
43 Kirk Kerkorian $16.0 billion United States
45 Steven Ballmer $15.0 billion United States
45 Abigail Johnson $15.0 billion United States
45 Shashi Ruia and Ravi Ruia $15.0 billion India
48 Nasser Al-Kharafi and family $14.0 billion Kuwait
48 The Duke of Westminster and family $14.0 billion United Kingdom
48 Carl Icahn $14.0 billion United States
48 Forrest Edward Mars, Jr. $14.0 billion United States
48 Jacqueline Mars $14.0 billion United States
48 John Mars $14.0 billion United States
48 Birgit Rausing and family $14.0 billion Sweden
48 Jack C. Taylor and family $14.0 billion United States
56 German Khan $13.9 billion Russia
57 Susanne Klatten $13.2 billion Germany
58 Vagit Alekperov $13.0 billion Russia
59 Donald Bren $13.0 billion United States
60 Alain Wertheimer and Gerard Wertheimer $12.9 billion ? 59 and 58 France United States
61 Dmitry Rybolovlev $12.8 billion ? 41 Russia
62 Azim Premji $12.7 billion India
63 Naguib Sawiris $12.7 billion ? 53 Egypt
64 Anne Cox Chambers $12.6 billion United States
65 Iskander Makhmudov $11.9 billion Russia
66 Sunil Mittal and family $11.8 billion India
67 Alexander Abramov $11.5 billion Russia
68 Michael Bloomberg $11.5 billion United States
69 Viktor Vekselberg $11.2 billion Russia
70 Michele Ferrero and family $11.0 billion Italy
70 George Kaiser $11.0 billion United States
70 Spiro Latsis and family $11.0 billion Greece
70 Nassef Sawiris $11.0 billion Egypt
74 Alexei Kuzmichev $10.8 billion Russia
75 Philip Knight $10.4 billion United States
75 Viktor Rashnikov $10.4 billion Russia
77 Ernesto Bertarelli $10.3 billion Switzerland
78 Kumar Mangalam Birla $10.2 billion India
79 Leonardo Del Vecchio $10.0 billion Italy
79 Antônio Ermírio de Moraes and family $10.0 billion Brazil
79 Iris Fontbona and family $10.0 billion Chile
79 Edward Johnson, III $10.0 billion United States
79 Hans Rausing $10.0 billion Sweden
79 Vladimir Yevtushenkov $10.0 billion Russia
79 Igor Zyuzin $10.0 billion Russia
86 Serge Dassault and family $9.9 billion France
87 Alberto Baillères $9.8 billion Mexico
88 Ramesh Chandra $9.6 billion India
89 Charles Ergen $9.5 billion United States
89 John Kluge $9.5 billion United States
89 Ronald Perelman $9.5 billion United States
92 Silvio Berlusconi and family $9.4 billion Italy
93 Gautam Adani $9.3 billion India
93 Petr Kellner $9.3 billion Czech Republic
93 Alisher Usmanov $9.3 billion Russia
96 Adolf Merckle $9.2 billion Germany
96 August von Finck, Jr. $9.2 billion Germany
98 Onsi Sawiris $9.1 billion Egypt
98 Mohammed Al Amoudi $9.1 billion Saudi Arabia
99 Robert Kuok $9.0 billion Malaysia
99 George Soros $9.0 billion United States

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