Trump to raise Taiwan arms sales, jailed tycoon Jimmy Lai case with Xi in BeijingUS President Donald Trump will discuss arms sales to Taiwan and the case of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai with Chinese President Xi Jinping...
12 May, 2026, 11.55 PM IST
Jack Ma re-emerges from oblivion: Alibaba founder joins Xi Jinping in high-stakes tech summit, is he back in Chinese President’s good books?Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma was pictured applauding Chinese President Xi Jinping.
18 Feb, 2025, 07.50 PM IST
Tencent chief causes stir with repost of article on China's economyThe article, which Pony Ma reposted early on Saturday, lamented that there were few people in China willing to speak up about the pressures...
23 May, 2022, 04.27 PM IST
China’s tech moguls see $80 billion of wealth evaporate in 2021The country’s 10 richest tech tycoons lost $80 billion in combined net worth in 2021, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, amid w...
30 Dec, 2021, 02.51 PM IST
Water tycoon is China's richest as wealth crackdown batters Jack MaBottled-water tycoon Zhong Shanshan has become China's wealthiest person, according to an annual ranking released Wednesday. He is worth $6...
27 Oct, 2021, 12.26 PM IST
The world’s billionaire factory shudders as China cracks downBeijing’s motivations for the crackdown are varied. These include concerns about anti-competitive behaviour in the tech industry, risks to ...
11 Jul, 2021, 01.54 PM IST
Billionaire Boom: How Covid cash ended up in the wallets of the richEasy money pouring out of central banks is a key driver behind this surge in fortunes, and the resulting wealth inequality
23 May, 2021, 12.34 PM IST
View: China’s billionaires are not as rich as they lookLooking at Chinese billionaires’ paper wealth can be misleading, because the bulk of their riches comes from their stock holdings.
25 Jan, 2021, 02.23 PM IST
China's bottled water king Zhong Shanshan replaces Mukesh Ambani as Asia's richest personZhong Shanshan, 66, isn’t involved in politics and his business interests aren’t entwined with other rich families such as the property tyc...
31 Dec, 2020, 09.02 PM IST
China stocks dip as anti-trust probe into Alibaba hits tech sharesChina's blue-chip index CSI300 fell 0.1% to 5,000.02, while the Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.6% to 3,363.11. The tech heavy STAR Market ...
24 Dec, 2020, 03.23 PM IST
Jack Ma: Tycoon who soared on China's tech dreams grounded by regulatorsMa, the most recognisable face in Asian business with a fortune estimated at around $58 billion, has already faced the ignominy of having t...
24 Dec, 2020, 12.16 PM IST
Bottled water billionaire pips Jack Ma to become China's richestNongfu Spring founder Zhong Shanshan's net worth has hit $58.7 billion after a massive listing by the bottled water company in Hong Kong ea...
24 Sep, 2020, 06.37 PM IST
Tencent's 48-yr-old Pony Ma dethrones Jack Ma to become China's richestPony Ma overtook real estate tycoon Wang Jianlin as China’s second-richest person in 2013.
24 Jun, 2020, 05.04 PM IST
New Chinese billionaires outpace U.S. by 3 to 1: ReportWhile the outbreak of a new coronavirus in China has hammered the world's second-biggest economy, it has also driven up stock valuations of...
26 Feb, 2020, 01.53 PM IST
The complex fortune growing inside world's most valuable startup BytedanceZhang Yiming, the 35-year-old founder of Bytedance Ltd. is worth about $13 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
25 Mar, 2019, 09.57 AM IST
Russia's richest man Alisher Usmanov bets big on India, unmanned carsUsmanov, whose first big tech investment was a stake in Facebook Inc., in recent years has invested in India’s largest online retailer, Fli...
17 Jun, 2016, 06.28 PM IST
- India's riche-rich club topples their Chinese counterparts
India lags behind China in terms of economic growth rate, but has beaten the neighbourhood country, when it comes to the wealth accumulated...
19 Nov, 2009, 05.27 PM IST