Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco, California, Oct. 17, 2007. Facebook said on Wednesday it will allow members to turn off a controversial feature that monitors the Web sites they visit, and its chief executive apologized for not responding sooner to privacy complaints.(Xinhua Photo)
Net worth: 4 billion dollars
How: Internet
Age: 25
Citizenship: US
The Facebook-founder launched the social networking site from his Harvard bedroom in 2004
2. John Arnold
Net worth: 4 billion dollars
How: Energy trading
Age: 36
Citizenship: US
Hired by Enron and founded hedge fund Centaurus Energy in 2002 after Enron collapsed.
3. Yang Huiyan
Net worth: 3.4 billion dollars
How: Property
Age: 28
Citizenship: China
Her fortune is tied up in her holding in Guangdong developer Country Garden, run by her father Yeung Kwok Keung.
4. Albert von Thurn und Taxis
Net worth: 2.2 billion dollars
How: Inheritance
Age: 26
Citizenship: Germany
Inherited fortune on his 18th birthday and lives in family castle, Schloss Emmeram.
5. Fahd Hariri
Net worth: 1.4 billion dollars
How: Construction, investments
Age: 29
Citizenship: Lebanon
Youngest son of assassinated Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri inherited stake in his father's construction, telecom and property empire.
6. Aymin Hariri
Net worth: 1.4 billion dollars
How: Construction, investments
Age: 31
Citizenship: Saudi Arabia
The Hariri brothers received a large inheritance from their father, Rafiq Hariri, who rose from a humble start as a construction worker to become prime minister of Lebanon.
7. Yoshikazu Tanaka
Net worth: 1.4 billion dollars
How: Internet
Age: 33
Citizenship: Japan
Like Zuckerberg, Tanaka also made his fortune from a social networking site, Gree.
8. Kostyantin Zhevago
Net worth: 1.2 billion dollars
How: Banking, mining
Age: 36
Citizenship: Ukraine
Has majority stake in iron ore producer Ferrexpo and Finance & Credit Bank.
9. Lee Ziaohui
Net worth: 1 billion dollars
How: Manufacturing
Age: 28
Citizenship: China
Chairman of one of China's biggest private steel manufacturers Shanxi Haixin Iron & Steel Group, since father was shot in 2003
10. Shahid Balwa
Net worth: 1 billion dollars
How: Property
Age: 36
Citizenship: India
Partner in DB Realty whose projects include Turf Estate, a luxury high-rise, and the 108-storey Park Hyatt Hotel in Mumbai.
(Agencies)
Editor: Li Xianzhi
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