2008 Forbes "Taiwan's 40 rich list" published

Graphic: CAI Hong Figure 1 (Tsai Hong-tu) family
Net wealth: 8.5 billion U.S. dollars
Industry: finance; Age: 55-year-old
Marital status: Married, three children
CAI Hong map and his family's wealth by inheritance from his father's plans CAI Hong Tsai Wan-lin (Tsai Wan-lin) (2004 died) legacy. Cathay Pacific Holdings is the main financial holding companies (Cathay Financial Holdings) (CAI Hong map of the company's chairman). Cathay Financial Holding's subsidiaries, including Cathay Life Insurance (Cathay Life Insurance) and Cathay Pacific Construction (Cathay Real Estate). This year, due to Taiwan's real estate market recovery, the building of Cathay Pacific's shares have gained.

Graphic: Wang Yung-ching (Y. C. Wang)
Net wealth: 6.8 billion U.S. dollars
Industry: Petrochemical; Age: 91-year-old
Marital status: Married, nine children
Only received primary education tea farmers to the son of Formosa Plastics (Formosa Plastics) built Asia's largest manufacturers of petrochemical products. Taiwan's major petrol supplier. Business more than 50 years later, in 2006 from the position of chairman of retirement.

Graphic: 3 Kuo-ming, Taiwan (Terry Gou)
Net wealth: 6 billion U.S. dollars
Industry: electronic age: 57-year-old
Marital status: widowed, two children
1974 by Hon Hai Precision Industry (Hon Hai Precision Industry) started in 7500 U.S. dollars. Is now the world's largest contract manufacturers, it was reported responsible for the assembly Apple (Apple) iPod and iPhone, Nokia (Nokia) mobile phones and Nintendo (Nintendo) Wii systems. Wealth, including a trust for employees on incentives and R & D shares. Since last November, Hon Hai's shares shrink 25 percent, part of the reason is that labor costs rose and consumer spending worries. Vietnam is expanding production through. The woman took the Hong Kong-listed Foxconn International Holdings (Foxconn International Holdings) board of directors.

Graphic: 4 million before Choi (Tsai Wan-Tsai)
Net wealth: 5.1 billion U.S. dollars
Industry: finance; Age: 78 years
Marital status: Married, four children
Fubon Group (Fubon Group), a founder and retired chairman. In his two sons - CEO Caiming Zhong (Daniel Tsai) and Vice Chairman Cai Ming Xing (Richard Tsai), under the leadership of the enterprises to enter the field of telecommunications and media and has been the revitalization. April the Taiwan government's approval of its Fubon Bank (Fubon Bank) acquisition of Xiamen commercial banks 19.9 percent stake. This is the first time Taiwan's government approved Bank of Taiwan to the mainland banks to invest. Nephew CAI Hong plan is the first top tycoons.

Graphic: 5 WANG Xue-hong (Cher Wang) and Chen Wenqi (Wen Chi Chen)
Net wealth: 3.5 billion U.S. dollars
Industry: electronic age: 50-year-old / 53
Marital status: Married, two children
Wang Yung-ching (the No. 2 ranking Regal) the daughter of a production control the use of Microsoft (Microsoft) software for mobile phones HTC (HTC). Last year in November and Google announced a joint venture production of new cell phone. Her husband operates semiconductor manufacturing enterprises VIA (VIA Technologies).

Graphic: 6. Jeffrey Koo (Jeffrey Koo Sr.)
Net wealth: 2.8 billion U.S. dollars
Industry: finance; Age: 74 years
Marital status: Married, four children
Jeffrey Koo is also the eldest son of his predecessor, the successor Guzhong understanding (Jeffrey Koo Jr) since 2006 on the run from the outside, when he abused Chinatrust Commercial Bank (Chinatrust) of funds to purchase the shares competitors were charged. Jeffrey Koo and his Chinese owned by the Trust Financial Holding Co., Ltd. (Chinatrust Financial Holding) side by side, and is expanding its consumer banking business, to serve in Greater China, Southeast Asia and North America Chinese. The company's stock has been since January have risen nearly 33 percent. Jeffrey Koo family also held recently in Singapore-listed by their other son Andre small commercial banks operating in the Financial One shares. His son, also a game company GigaMedia shares.
Net wealth: 2.7 billion U.S. dollars
Industry: real estate; Age: 69 years
Marital status: Married, four children
Rong-Hui Lin is the first three growing vegetables on rice sales Fajia wealth. He 20 when the teenager began to get involved in real estate development industry. He is Taiwan's largest daily Liberty Times (Liberty Times) and the issue of Taiwan's democratic reform and international relations advocate. At the same time, he also holds the Commonwealth Bank of Taiwan (Union Bank of Taiwan) shares. Furthermore, as a former member of Taiwan's legislature, he also served as the island had two successive leaders of the national policy adviser.

Graphic: 8. Wei should state (Wei Ing-Chou) and his family
Net wealth: 2.65 billion U.S. dollars
Industry: food; Age: 54-year-old
Marital status: Married, three children
Since the 1990s, consumer-oriented Chinese mainland since the launch Kangshifu instant noodles, she should state the noodles production company is developing rapidly. Now, he's the top benefit (Tingyi) is a leading provider of instant tea noodles and bottled water and retailers. The company's earnings per share in 2007 on growth of 31 percent. Wei, the family should be adopted last year to increase its purchase of shares in the company's shares.

Graphic: 8. Wei should state (Wei Ing-Chou) and his family
Net wealth: 2.65 billion U.S. dollars
Industry: food; Age: 54-year-old
Marital status: Married, three children
Since the 1990s, consumer-oriented Chinese mainland since the launch Kangshifu instant noodles, she should state the noodles production company is developing rapidly. Now, he's the top benefit (Tingyi) is a leading provider of instant tea noodles and bottled water and retailers. The company's earnings per share in 2007 on growth of 31 percent. Wei, the family should be adopted last year to increase its purchase of shares in the company's shares.
Graphic: 10. Lin Yu Lin (Lin Yu-Lin)
Net wealth: 2.4 billion U.S. dollars
Industry: real estate; Age: 72 years
Marital status: Married, seven children
Lin Yu Lin is the real estate development company Fergus Group (Hung Tai Group) chairman. Benefit from the re-warmed up the real estate market, the company is rapidly developing. His favorite building foreigners, including Fergus Centre (Hung Tai Center) and Exchange Square (Exchange Square), and in building Hongsheng Corp. (Hung Sheng Construction) and Qunyi Securities (Capital Securities) in the respective holders Shares. He is ranked seventh in three Rong-Hui Lin's brother.
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The real estate industry billions of dollars-rich - far-building (Farglory Land Development), chairman of Chao Teng-hsiung (Chao Teng-Hsiung) is the list of one. In the past two years, far-building shares rose nearly three times, making his net assets reached 1.8 billion U.S. dollars. Over the past year, construction shares soared 42 percent, while Taiwan's main index rose by 11 percent overall.
The number of mainland tourists to Taiwan is expected to increase to benefit another major beneficiary of the tourism business owner. As a whole, their stock in the last year rose 58 percent, from the end of last year to now, soaring by 80 percent. This increase also PAN Si-liang (Steven Pan) to 580 million U.S. dollars of net assets we selected list. PAN Si-liang of the Taipei House4 family is the hotel (Grand Formosa Regent) the majority shareholder. Taiwan's popular but has not yet publicly listed Fuk Wa Hotel (Howard Hotel) the owner of Paul Liao and his family net assets is estimated to reach about 1 billion U.S. dollars.