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Thai lawmaker Hangthong Tumwattana was visibly upset when he turned up at his family's 12-bedroom mansion on the night of Sept. 5, 1999. A scion of one of Thailand's richest business clans, Hangthong's personal fortune had been depleted by costly political campaigns and his familial relations strained by an ugly inheritance feud. "He was nervous, hands shaking as he ate," recalls younger brother Nopdol Tumwattana, who lived at the compound in Bang Khen in northern Bangkok with Hangthong and may have been the last person to see his brother alive. Hours later, after calls from panicked...
...government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi amended Italy's antiquated bankruptcy rules to protect Parmalat from creditors, and the government plans to merge a plethora of regulators into a single agency with real teeth. But the credibility of these efforts is being undermined by Berlusconi himself, Italy's richest man. For instance, last year the government reduced the penalties for false accounting, an offense for which Berlusconi was indicted in 1999. Also, to avoid bribery charges, he pushed through a law giving top government office holders immunity from prosecution, though last week Italy's high court deemed this move unconstitutional...
...world's richest man in 1937 was His Exalted Highness the Nizam of Hyderabad, an Indian potentate. TIME featured him on its cover that year, estimating his fortune at $1.4 billion, including "$150,000,000 in jewels [and] $250,000,000 in gold bars." Such fabulous wealth enabled free-spending Indian princes like the nizam to fill the best hotels in London and Paris with massive entourages that made impossible demands and gave outrageous tips?long before Arab sheiks got into the habit. The nizam and his ilk have disappeared from the world's glamour magazines and gossip columns...
...sentence in much of world, so President Bush pledged $15 billion over the next five years for the relief of the disease in the most severely affected nations of Africa and the Caribbean. At least $10 billion a year is needed, according to U.N. estimates, but the world's richest countries spend a total of about $2.8 billion annually...
...difficulties of even maintaining, much less improving, one of the world’s greatest libraries must be; I sympathize with whoever holds this responsibility,” Womack wrote in his letter. “But I will not silently accept that the world’s richest university should spend so much on making money and spending it on real estate and physical structures, while it cuts its services for teaching and research...