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...million Amount to be paid to the winner of the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, created by a Sudanese-born tycoon to honor African leaders for corruption-free rule. The prize eclipses the Nobel ($1.4 million) as the world's richest...
...DIED. Henry Fok Ying-tung, 83, low-key Hong Kong tycoon who was one of the Chinese leadership's most trusted advisers; in Beijing. During the Korean War, Fok defied a U.S. embargo and dispatched aid to China. In ensuing years, Beijing showered him with business contracts and official honors. Fok, an aide told reporters, was "a true patriot...
...million Amount to be paid to the winner of the Mo Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, created by a Sudanese-born tycoon to honor African leaders for corruption-free rule. The prize eclipses the Nobel ($1.4 million) as the world's richest $148 billion Estimated annual cost of corruption in Africa-25% of the continent's GDP-including lost tax revenue and deterred investment
...scene straight out of a Hong Kong gangster flick. On a November morning in 2002, local property tycoon Harry (Cigar) Lam was enjoying breakfast in his usual spot at Luk Yu Tea House, a Hong Kong institution famed for its tasty dim sum and indifferent service. At about 9 a.m., a nearby diner paid for his meal, walked up to Lam's table and killed him with a gunshot to the head...
...small generator," he says. "It's quiet and away from everywhere. There is a town and there are neighbors, but I go quietly on my own. I walk the beach and I read and I think about what I should do." It's not how you conventionally picture a tycoon's life. That's his point...