The number of billionaires in China, measured in US dollars, rose sharply in 2013, hitting a new record of 315 individuals, according to the country's Hurun Rich List 2013, published on September 11. This is up from 251 last year; and zero as little as …

SINGAPORE, Oct. 3, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — The wealthiest man in the Middle East is Saudi prince and billionaire investor Alwaleed bin Talal with an estimated personal fortune of US$24.5 billion. He heads Wealth-X's list of the top 20 ultra wealthy …

Last summer, David De Jong caught wind of Gunther Quandt, a German industrialist and Nazi, who founded an industrial empire that today includes BMW. De Jong wasn't interested in Gunther so much, as his sons Hareld and Herbert. They went on to inherit …

Trafalgar New Homes will continue building houses for affluent clients in Kent, Surrey and Sussex as it gears up to start paying its new investors a dividend from next year, with no plans to branch out into other regions, its chief executive says …

For travelers from the city-state, 79 percent chose to refer to online sources like travel review, service provider and official tourism websites, 77 percent chose bookings of independent travel and 66 percent took to information while traveling …

Good luck to the veterans on their fundraising campaign for the cemetery, but under Carmel Mayor Jason Burnett, ultra-affluent City of Carmel-by-the-Sea contributing less than one tenth of one percent (0.08 percent ) of the city's general fund revenues …

Hotel-room bookings for this year jumped 11 percent in Mexico as of July 25, compared with a 6 percent increase a year earlier, according to travel-services company Orbitz Worldwide Inc. Growth in bookings in the Caribbean, Central America and South …

Nevertheless, Dorling insists it is better to work on changing the behaviour of the affluent than that of the poor: “One person flying to New York and back, on a whim to go on a shopping trip that doesn't even make them happy, that's the kind of thing …

These items included repairs on schools that the school board voted to close. The upshot of these actions is that schools on the west (less affluent) side of town were closed and the majority of the bond monies were spent on schools on the east (more …