Filipino billionaires

Forbes Magazine has listed the Philippines’ richest by ranking the country’s dollar billionaires. Here is the Forbes Ten Richest in the Philippines list:

Henry Sy Sr. $18 billion; 2. Manuel V. Villar $5 billion; 3,  John Gokongwei Jr. $4.4 billion;  4.  Jaime Zobel de Ayala $4 billion; 5.  Enrique Razon $3.9 billion; 6.  Tony Tan Caktiong $3.85 billion; 7.  Lucio Tan $3.8 billion; 8.  Ramon Ang $2.85 billion; 9.  George Ty $2.75 billion; and 10.  Andrew Tan $2.6 billion.

On the other hand, here is the list of Filipino billionaires compiled by my weekly business magazine, BizNewsAsia.  How they were ranked and how their wealth was computed are self-explanatory:

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