Mukesh Ambani has lost his spot as the richest person in Asia to Hong Kong’s Li Ka-shing
Li Ka-shing
GLOBAL RANK: 9
$25.5 BILLION
HONG KONG, Diversified
Li’s vast empire employs 270,000 people in 53 countries; his businesses have built one out of every 7 residences in Hong Kong, his Hutchison Port Holdings handles about 13% of the world’s container traffic, and his recently acquired Northumbrian Water supplies clean drinking water to 4.5 million people in England and sewerage services to another 2.7 million.
(This story appears in the 30 March, 2012 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)