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Apr 14 2024
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Bubble Tea Billionaire Wants To Raise $330 Million In Hong Kong IPO
ChaPanda, the bubble tea chain headed by Chinese billionaire Wang Xiaokun, aims to raise HK$2.6 billion ($330 million) in a Hong Kong IPO that will be a test of investor enthusiasm, especially as its rivals line up to go public amid intense competition in the milk tea industry. The Chengdu, Sichuan-based company will offer 147.8 million shares for HK$17.50 apiece, according to a Monday filing
ForbesApr 06 2024
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Naomi Biden fact-checks billionaire slamming Joe Biden
Joe Biden's granddaughter Naomi Biden fact-checked billionaire Bill Ackman on Friday after he criticized the president's handling of the hostage situation in Gaza. On October 7, 2023, Hamas led the deadliest Palestinian militant attack on Israel in history. Israel, in response, subsequently launched its heaviest-ever airstrikes on Gaza. Hamas killed about 1,200 people in Israel and took some
NewsweekApr 17 2024
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A Mansion, Two Dogs and a Wall: Inside The Conflict Between a Utah Billionaire And His Neighbors
Early last year, a twice-weekly newspaper in Park City, Utah, published a story on the rejection of a state measure that would’ve allowed tech billionaire Matthew Prince to build an 11,000-square-foot mansion on a hill with little say from locals. It was the first time the Park Record had ever written about Prince’s mansion. And then something curious happened: The paper started covering
BloombergApr 09 2024
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Mexico’s Billionaires Piled Up Riches as AMLO Raged Against Them
Mexico’s billionaires were finally going to get their comeuppance. They were nothing more than a mafia, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told raucous crowds again and again at campaign rallies, and he was going to bring them to heel just as soon as he set foot in the presidential palace.
Today, the billionaires are richer than ever.
BloombergApr 04 2024
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Angry Billionaires Rush Back To Trump To Protect Their Tax Cuts
Generally speaking, I figure if the guys who’ve spent ungodly amounts of money to buy off politicians in return for tax cuts and deregulation that helps their businesses are mad about something, then it’s could very well be a good thing So, when I read a Daily Beast story about some billionaires’ anger over President Joe Biden’s proposed budget, I figured he must be on the right track. Biden’s
Daily KosApr 03 2024
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Billionaire Nelson Peltz Loses His War Against Disney
For more than a year, activist investor Nelson Peltz has tussled with Disney executives in an effort to gain more influence over the company, culminating in an all-out proxy battle to secure two seats on the board. Based on preliminary results released on Wednesday, shareholders rejected Peltz’s advance, the company said. They also rejected Peltz’s attempt to win a seat for former Disney
Daily BeastApr 07 2024
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Trump Panders to Billionaires, Vows to Keep Their Taxes Low During Fundraiser
Donald Trump promised to keep billionaires’ taxes low at a fundraising dinner Saturday night in Palm Beach, Fla., held at the home of billionaire John Paulson. A Trump campaign official told NBC News that the former president “spoke on the need to win back the White House so we can turn our country around, focusing on key issues including unleashing energy production, securing our southern
RollingStone.comApr 11 2024
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Truong My Lan: Vietnamese billionaire sentenced to death for $44bn fraud
It was the most spectacular trial ever held in Vietnam, befitting one of the greatest bank frauds the world has ever seen.
Behind the stately yellow portico of the colonial-era courthouse in Ho Chi Minh City, a 67-year-old Vietnamese property developer was sentenced to death on Thursday for looting one of the country's largest banks over a period of 11 years.
It's a rare verdict
BBC NewsApr 01 2024
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LA billionaire behind insurer underwriting Trump's $175M bond
Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond on Monday in his New York civil fraud case, halting collection of the more than $454 million he owes and preventing the state from seizing his assets to satisfy the debt while he appeals, according to a court filing. A New York appellate court had given the former president 10 days to put up the money after a panel of judges agreed last month to slash
NBC Los AngelesApr 08 2024
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St. Louis-area investors, tech founders make the Forbes billionaires list
AUGUSTA — David Hoffmann, a Washington native who bought up dozens of properties in Missouri wine country, made the Forbes World Billionaires List for the third consecutive year. Hoffmann founded the Florida-based Hoffmann Family of Cos., which in 2021 announced plans to spend up to $150 million on development projects in the St. Charles County town of Augusta, with an eye toward building the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch