Forbes Taiwan’s 40 Richest

Taiwan’s main stock index and property prices have gained this year on hopes that the island, under newly elected President Ma Ying-jeou, will seek closer ties with the mainland. To that end, Taiwan is prepared to open itself to goods and money from the mainland in ways that it hasn’t in more than a half a century. The combined net worth of the island’s 40 richest is $77 billion, more than their counterparts in South Korea or any Southeast Asian nation. They lag Hong Kong’s top 40 by $102 billion and China’s by $43 billion, but considering Taiwan’s political isolation and relative size, the group holds its own. Here this The 40 Richest Taiwanese:

1. Tsai Hong-tu & family
2. Y.C. Wang
3. Terry Gou
4. Tsai Wan-tsai
5. Cher Wang & Wen Chi Chen
6. Jeffrey Koo Sr.
7. Lin Rong San
8. Wei Ing-Chou & family
9. Tsai Eng Meng
10. Lin Yu-Lin
11. Eugene Wu & family
12. Barry Lam
13. Chao Teng-Hsiung
14. Douglas Hsu
15. Shi Wen Long
16. Luo Jye & family
17. Chang Yung-fa
18. Tsai Ming-Kai
19. Leslie Koo
20. Jason Chang
21. Lin Ming-cheng
22. Tsai Chi Jui & family
23. Long-Shing Liao
24. Suhon Lin
25. Tseng Shin-yi
26. Rudy Ma & family
27. Kenneth Yen & family
28. Paul Liao & family
29. Chen Ching-Chih & family
30. Samuel Yin
31. Wu Chung-Yi
32. Lin Yu-chia & family
33. Hou Bo-ming & family
34. Chen Yung-tai
35. Show Chung Ho
36. Wu Ping-Chih & family
37. Allen Horng & family
38. Bruce Cheng
39. Steven Pan & family
40. Ting Piao Chiao & family

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