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Chinese billionaires have lost one-third of their combined wealth over the past year, according to new research, reported CBNC Monday.

Australian billionaire Clive Palmer reportedly plans to clone a real dinosaur from ancient DNA samples for a Jurassic Park-style area at his new theme resort.

L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, France's richest woman, has sold a private island in the Seychelles to a firm linked to an ocean conservation foundation.

Billionaire Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has bought 98 per cent of Hawaii's sixth-largest island, Lanai.

Gina Rinehart is now the world's richest woman, says BRW Magazine. The Australian miner, worth nearly $30 billion, earns about $50 million a day.

Bloomberg has released the "Bloomberg Billionaires Index," the first daily global ranking of the richest people in the world as part of their coverage of wealth. The index, changes daily depending on stock fluctuations and economic/company news dynamically...

U2 rocker bono is about to make $1 billion, thanks to his 2009 investment in Facebook. Bono’s investment company Elevation Partners bought $210 million worth of shares in the social networking site almost two years...

On Saturday night, Roman Abramovich opened his French Caribbean paradise, the 70-acre Gouverneur Bay Estate, to 400 guests for a New Year’s Eve party.