Southeast Asia's 40 Richest People!

Just happened to read Forbes' Southeast Asia's richest list – Link

Among the 5 countries (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia) that are listed, here are some interesting things:

1. Banks seem to be very profitable, especially in Singapore.
2. Selling kretek in Indonesia's highly profitable with 3 guys making it to the top 40 list.
3. Robert Kuok and Syed Mokhtar started off trading rice.
4. Construction/real-estate seem to be a sure-fire way of making it to the Top 40 in all the countries.
5. Red Bull is actually half-owned by a Thai guy!
6. 10 out of the Top 40 richest are Malaysians.
7. 9 are Thais.
8. Singapore, Indonesia and Philippines each had 7 ppl who made it to the list.

If we pool all the assets of the richest ppl in their respective countries, here are the new country rankings:

1. Malaysia – US$16.9B (35.8%)
2. Singapore – US$10.56B (22.4%)
3. Indonesia – US$7.905B (16.7%)
4. Thailand – US$6.705B (14.2%)
5. Philippines – US$5.14B (10.9%)