ForbesAsia-April2018

How Malaysian “Accidental” Casino Billionaire Chen Lip Keong’s Cambodia Bet Paid Of

Anthony Tan’s Grab Hits $6 Billion Valuation as the Ride-Hailing Race Quickens

Football Crazy: Why a Chinese-American Investor Brought Moneyball to a Sleepy English Town

Indian Parliamentarian’s Business Born of War Reporting Puts Him in Billionaires Club

Legendary Tycoon Robert Kuok on Trials and Tribulations in Shangri-La Hotels

Malaysia’s Richest: Fortunes of Country’s High Flyers Skyrocket

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Our gambling story from the March issue hit the jackpot online:

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THE KING HAS been dethroned.

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Bezos usurped reigning monarch

Bill Gates to claim the top spot

on our annual tally of the world’s

billionaires (March). With an eye-

watering net worth of $112 billion,

Amazon’s founder also became the

fi rst nominal centibillionaire we’ve

tracked over three decades. (Some

readers retain their fealty to the an-

cien régime: “Bill Gates forever #1,”

cheered Raquel Dunn on Linked-

In.) One prominent tapioca-haired

gadfl y didn’t fare as well, shedding

$400 million of his former $3.5 bil-

lion fortune: “Entering politics has

had an ill ef ect on President Trump’s purse,” wrote the New York Daily

News’ Denis Slattery. Our profi le of Malaysian billionaire Chen Lip Keong

and his casino in Cambodia (“The Accidental Casino Mogul,” p. 34) inspired

this retort on Facebook from Jo Priestley: “Yes, let’s congratulate him for

helping to keep Cambodians poor. Gambling is a horrendously addictive

habit that the Khmers really don’t need shoved down their throats!”

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