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TH E WORLDÕ S BILLIONA I RE S
JERAM
MALAYSIA TAWAU MONACO

GDP: $315.4 BIL SIBU GDP: $6.9 BIL
POPULATION: 32 MIL POPULATION: 39,000
BILLIONAIRES: 14 (+2 VS. 2017) SELANGOR BILLIONAIRES: 4
TOTAL NET WORTH: $61.8 BIL EXPATRIATE TOTAL NET WORTH: $6.9
(+$16.1 BIL VS. 2017) KUALA 1 BIL (–$200 MIL VS. 2017)
LUMPUR
9 Robert Kuok Lim Kok Thay
Robert Kuok  Lau Cho Kun  NEWCOMER: The son of late gaming
AS MONACO FC
$14.8 BIL #96 PALM OIL, $2.6 BIL #924 PALM OIL, RICHEST: Ma- billionaire Lim Goh Tong disclosed his DMITRY RYBOLOVLEV
DMITRY RYBOLOVLEV
SHIPPING, REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE
laysia’s rich- stake in casino group Genting in No-
Ananda Krishnan  Kuan Kam Hon  est for 22 years, vember, following reports of a long- MONTE CARLO
$7.2 BIL #217 TELECOM, MEDIA $2.5 BIL #965 SYNTHETIC the press-shy running family dispute over ownership
GLOVES
Quek Leng Chan  mogul made head- of the shares. His Nasdaq-listed Empire
$7.2 BIL #217 BANKING, Koon Poh Keong ★ lines last year with a memoir, Resorts opened a resort in the Catskills
REAL ESTATE $2.4 BIL #1020 ALUMINUM
sharing little-known details of in February that has over 150 table EXPATRIATES
Teh Hong Piow  Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary  his life, including his days as games and 2,150 slot machines. 2
$6 BIL #289 BANKING $1.9 BIL #1284 DIVERSIFIED a rice, sugar and wheat-flour Tatiana Casiraghi 

Lee Shin Cheng  Jeffrey Cheah ★ trader as well as his ties to pol- $2.2 BIL #1103 BEER
$5.6 BIL #321 PALM OIL, $1.3 BIL #1756 DIVERSIFIED iticians in the early years of David Nahmad 
REAL ESTATE Malaysia’s independence. He $1.9 BIL #1284 ART
Lim Wee Chai ★
Lim Kok Thay ★ $1.2 BIL #1867 RUBBER GLOVES controls an empire that in- Ezra Nahmad 
$4.7 BIL #441 CASINOS cludes hotel chain Shangri- $1.5 BIL #1561 ART
Tiong Hiew King 
Chen Lip Keong  $1.1 BIL #1999 TIMBER, MEDIA La and agribusiness Wilmar Lily Safra 
$3.3 BIL #703 CASINOS, International. $1.3 BIL #1756 BANKING
REAL ESTATE
MOROCCO NETHERLANDS Charlene de Carvalho-
Heineken & family 
$15.8 BIL #86 HEINEKEN
GDP: $110.7 BIL; POPULATION: 36 MIL Frits Goldschmeding 
BILLIONAIRES: 2 (–1 VS. 2017) GDP: $823.9 BIL; POPULATION: 17 MIL $5.2 BIL #372 TEMP AGENCY
TOTAL NET WORTH: $3.8 BIL Hans Melchers 
(–$700 MIL VS. 2017) BILLIONAIRES: 9 (–1 VS. 2017) $2.9 BIL #822 CHEMICALS,
TOTAL NET WORTH: $35.5 BIL (+$3.9 BIL VS. 2017) INVESTMENTS
Aziz Akhannouch & Ralph Sonnenberg 
family  $2.9 BIL #822 BLINDS
$2.2 BIL #1103 PETROLEUM, Hans Melchers John de Mol 
DIVERSIFIED CASABLANCA $2.1 BIL #1157 TELEVISION
Othman Benjelloun  TROPHY: An avid art Kommer Damen 
$1.6 BIL #1477 BANKING, collector, Melchers $1.8 BIL #1339 SHIPBUILDING
INSURANCE opened his second
Lesley Bamberger 
MORE Museum in a
$1.7 BIL #1394 REAL ESTATE
14th-century castle in
Robert Defares 
the Dutch village of
NEPAL Ruurlo in June. It fea- $1.6 BIL #1477
ELECTRONIC TRADING
tures works by Dutch
Wim Van Der Leegte 
GDP: $24.9 BIL; POPULATION: 29 MIL painter Carel Willink $1.5 BIL #1561 MANUFACTURING
BILLIONAIRES: 1 and Chinese-Dutch
TOTAL NET WORTH: $1.5 BIL (+$200 fashion designer Fong
MIL VS. 2017) Leng. His first MORE

Museum, which exhib-
Binod Chaudhary  its modern Dutch real-
$1.5 BIL #1561 ist art, opened in Gors-
DIVERSIFIED
sel in 2015.
KATHMANDU
Binod Chaudhary
POLITICS: The chairman of CG Corp Global

secured a nomination from the Nepali Con- AMSTERDAM
gress party in the 3 BLARICUM
December fed-
eral elections. VORDEN
His party didn’t
win, but now as
a member of par-
liament sitting in GORINCHEM Kommer Damen
the opposition,
Chaudhary says EINDHOVEN NEWSMAKER: His $2.5 billion (sales) Damen Shipyards worked
he hopes to play a with four other companies to develop the world’s first 3-D-print-

role in “furthering ed ship propeller, the WAAMpeller. Built with 298 layers of nickel
Nepal’s economic aluminum bronze alloy, the propeller was tested on one of Damen’s
agenda.” EXPATRIATES tugboats and displayed at its headquarters in November.
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