Trump's sweeping tariffs and penalties on China-built ships have turned global shipping into the front line of economic war, observes Shyam G Menon.
The $22.8 billion CK Hutchison ports deal intensifies geopolitical tensions between the US and China. Chinese media has already called it 'a betrayal of all Chinese people'. Shyam G Menon explains how the proposed sale will reshapes global trade infrastructure.
Shanghvi founded Sun Pharmaceuticals in 1983 with five psychiatry products and a marketing team of just two persons.
Mad money does not equal fame. These folks manage to skirt the public eye despite their billions.
They turned a small family construction business into a conglomerate with interests in shipping, steel, oil and gas.
Hutchison holds a 52 percent stake in Hutchison Essar and the Ruias-promoted Essar group 33 percent, while the rest is held by Analjit Singh of Max India and Hutchison Essar CEO Asim Ghosh.
There are over 5,000 UHNW-founded private foundations.
Life wasn't easy for Li Ka-shing, who fled China in 1940.
At the young age of 15, Wang joined the People's Liberation Army as a guard.
Images of Cecil the lion and a number of the world's most endangered animals were projected on to the side of the Empire State Building.
Over the years, Mr Singh has got in and out of innumerable businesses, cutting across sectors. He is one businessman who I have always found to be in a start-up mode, says Bhupesh Bhandari.
Zee Group is India's second-largest media and entertainment firm.
Tax demands and regulatory hassles, coupled with low internet density and sundry other problems, would have kept Mr Ma awfully busy - and small.
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