06 Global Rich List Gates lost Wal-Mart founder second

Do not know Uncle Gates lost the first position, how do you feel? The Sunday Times published the 2006 global Rich List of the Sunday times, April 23, published its statistics of 2006 of the world's 100 rankings, it is surprising that "the richest" specialist Bill Gates has lost to the retail start of the fellow Robertson Walton, only ranked second. The top three have not changed. As the UK's authoritative media, the Sunday Times ranked the world's richest men every year. This year, the top three people are the same as last year. The 1th is Wal-Mart's Walton, with a fortune of 45.1 billion pounds, the 2nd is Microsoft Chairman Gates, the rich list of 28.6 billion pounds, and the 3rd is the "Warren" of Warren Buffett, property of 24 billion pounds. The U.S.-rich super-rich in the list of Britons listed in the ranking of the rich and the U.S. "Forbes", "wealth" and other discrepancies, but it is undeniable that the United States is still a production of super rich place. In this list, Americans account for 30% of the 100 billionaires, and include the top 3 of the list. Britain's two richest billionaires are Indian-born "steel tycoon" Mittal, Russian "football tycoon" and Chelsea boss Roman Abramovich. Their net worth is 14.9 billion pounds and 10.8 billion pounds respectively. Asia, which has risen rapidly in the Asian rankings, has also produced many rich men. A total of 5 Asian people, including 4 from Hong Kong, China, 1 from South Korea. Li Ka-shing, the richest man in Hong Kong, has the highest ranking among the 5 Asians, rising from 26 last year to 21 this year. In addition, Sun Hung Kai's Kwok brothers, the two people with a total of 6.6 billion pounds of property ranked 41, Henderson chairman Shau to 6.3 billion pounds in the 45th place, gambling Stanley Ho accounted for 94, assets of a total of 3.7 billion pounds. In addition, South Korea's Samsung Electronics Lee Kun-hee and Li Mingzhao to a total of 4.6 billion pounds to squeeze into the hundred strong. The "queue" of the rich List "The Sunday Times" also selected the British rich, the British Asian billionaires, Europe's top 10 billionaires, the world's richest artists and so on. "Steel tycoon" Mr Mittal not only successfully boarded the throne of "British Millionaire", but also become the richest man in Britain, the German retail giant Carl Albachette became Europe's richest businessman, Ikea founder Ingva Camprade second place, the Irish famous rock group "U2" become the world's richest artist. Source: British "Sunday Times"