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November 18, 2008
Taiwan's best export will be tale of Wang
Can the enrichment of one individual result in the empowerment of the masses? How far can a person push himself if he was born into a poor tea farming family, which was unable to afford his primary education and had to scrape together the tiniest stitch of capital to help him start his first business, to mill and sell rice in his village at the age of 15?
In fact, a person with such a challenging set of circumstances has proven that he can become a philanthropic billionaire with a net worth estimated by Forbes Magazine in June at $6.8 billion (R69 billion at at yesterday's exchange rate).
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Posted by StaffWriter at November 18, 2008 8:20 AM