This year’s list again includes several people with connections to Macau.
Lui Che Woo, the chairman of Galaxy Entertainment Group is in spot 178, with a net worth of us$ 5.7 billion, while MGM China Holdings’s co-chairwoman Pansy Ho Chiu King is ranked 314, with a net worth of us$ 3.5 billion.
Steve Wynn comes a bit behind, in position 491, with a net worth of us$ 2.5 billion, while his former business partner Kazuo Okada and family are ranked in 719th position, with a net worth of us$ 1.8 billion. Angela Leong On Kei comes close, with a net worth of us$ 1.7 billion, in position 764.
Mexico telecom mogul Carlos Slim again topped the Forbes annual world’s richest list, with his us$ 69 billion fortune, which while down from last year, still outpaced the runner-up, Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Forbes said 1,226 tycoons made it onto its global list of billionaires this year.
In the third spot was U.S. investment guru Warren Buffett, worth us$ 44 billion.