Shares in WestSide, an Australian listed gas producer, rose by 13% to A$0.295 today after a company led by Chinese billionaire Ye Cheng announced an unsolicited takeover bid for its shares. Landbridge of China's Shandong Provice would pay A$0.36 per …

China boasts the world's largest number of Internet users and fastest-growing e-commerce markets. So it's no surprise ambitious entrepreneurs from the country are rapidly ascending the ranks of Forbes Billionaires list. Here's a list of the country's …

SYDNEY — Anglo American's decision to quit plans for a coal-port expansion in Australia leaves Indian billionaires GV Krishna Reddy and Gautam Adani as the last major investors left looking at extending the terminal. Anglo, the world's fourth-biggest …

AP/Patric Schneider/FileHouston Texans owner and billionaire Bob McNair, far right, has several South Carolina ties, including a Kiawah Island vacation home. He's shown at Reliant Stadium in January with, from left, Texans chief operating officer Cal …

His three sons, Peter, Jonas and Mathias, inherited their father's predilection for privacy — they've never given an interview to the media — and his stake in Ikano Group, a collection of financial, real estate and retail assets that has made them …

Chairman Sheldon Adelson, whose net worth grew to $38 billion in 2013, returned to the top 10 of the Forbes List of the World's Billionaires for the first time since 2007. Adelson, 80, who owns 53 percent of the company that operates casinos in Las …

Forbes released its annual billionaires list Monday, and the same five super-rich Minnesotans who made the list this year were also ranked last year, according to the Business Journal. They are all wealthier now than they were in August, when Forbes …

China has a record 152 members on the latest Forbes ranking of the world's wealthiest people unveiled today. Among them, 37 are new faces compared with the 2013 Forbes Billionaires List. Here are the members of that group, with their main business, …

There are a record number of women on the Forbes billionaire list this year — 172 or a 25 percent increase from last year. But that's about the only good news to be found there. Otherwise, the ranks of the Forbes list—which continues to grow …