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The world’s richest person named: and it's no longer Elon Musk
Tengrinews.kz – Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has taken the top spot on Bloomberg’s billionaire ranking, surpassing Tesla and SpaceX founder
11 September 2025
World’s richest lose over $200 billion in a day due to Trump
Tengrinews.kz - The world’s wealthiest individuals lost more than $200 billion following U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to impose new
04 April 2025
Over 33 billion allocated from State Fund: how will it be spent
Tengrinews.kz - A hematology center will be built in Ust-Kamenogorsk. 33.6 billion tenge have been allocated from the Special State Fund for
20 March 2025
Elon Musk shows nazi salute-like gesture at Trump parade
Tengrinews.kz – American billionaire Elon Musk, speaking at the parade in honor of US President Donald Trump's inauguration, twice showed a
21 January 2025
Elon Musk becomes first person with a net worth over $400 billion
Tengrinews.kz - Elon Musk has become the first person in history to amass a fortune exceeding $400 billion, according to Bloomberg.
12 December 2024
Pavel Durov's girlfriend showed 'one day in the life in Dubai'
Tengrinews.kz - A girlfriend of Telegram messenger founder Pavel Durov, Julia Vavilova, shared a video on Instagram showing how she spends her
11 November 2024
Kazakhstan's richest female rentier renounced Russian citizenship
Tengrinews.kz - Aidan Suleimenova, Kazakhstan's wealthiest female rentier, has renounced her Russian passport.
12 July 2024
Buffett would 'bet money' on Clinton becoming president
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Tuesday he would bet money on Hillary Clinton becoming the next president of the United States.
08 October 2014
New comic book stars Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg
The life of billionaire Facebook executive and "Lean In" author Sheryl Sandberg has been distilled into a 32-page comic book set for release this week.
23 September 2014
Russia places top billionaire under house arrest
Russian authorities said they had placed a top billionaire, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, under house arrest, accusing him of money-laundering.
17 September 2014
Australian mogul Packer gives away $188 million
Billionaire James Packer, one of Australia's richest men, announced he was setting up a philanthropic foundation to give away Aus$200 million (US$188 million).
25 July 2014
Billionaire trio unite for US immigration reform
Three of the world's richest men -- Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Sheldon Adelson -- put aside their political differences to unite in scathing condemnation of US lawmakers' failure to implement immigration reform.
12 July 2014
Billionaire conservative donor Richard Mellon Scaife dies, 82
Richard Mellon Scaife, a generous donor to US conservative causes and heir to a sizeable banking fortune, died according to The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a newspaper that he owned. He was 82.
05 July 2014
Bulat Utemuratov finalizes Temirbank and Alliance Bank purchase and talks about their future
Samruk-Kazyna National Wealth Fund finalized sale of its shares in two Kazakhstan banks, Temirbank and Alliance Bank, to Bulat Utemuratov.
20 May 2014
Icahn takes eBay stake, seeks PayPal spinoff
EBay said Wednesday that activist investor Carl Icahn had taken a stake in the online retailer and was seeking a spinoff of its PayPal financial payments unit.
23 January 2014
ENRC explains its delisting from LSE
Kazakhstan's billionaire Aleksandr Mashkevich has explained why ENRC chose to be delisted from the London Stock Exchange.
21 January 2014
Czech billionaire sets aside business for power politics
The Czech Republic's second richest man whose fledgling party came in second in parliamentary elections, Andrej Babis, said Monday he is setting aside his business portfolio to take up a political one, as finance minister.
21 January 2014
Lakshmi Mittal asks Kazakhstan's employees to hunker down
Lakshmi Mittal met with ArcelorMittal Temirtau plant top-managers and called them to reduce expenses and make goods more competitive.
27 December 2013
Chinese billionaire feared dead in France helicopter crash
Four people were feared dead Saturday including a Chinese billionaire and his 12-year-old son after the helicopter in which he was overflying his newly purchased French vineyard crashed into a river.
21 December 2013
Billionaire Utemuratov buys two Kazakhstan banks
Kazakh billionaire Bulat Utemuratov has finalized the deal to purchase Alliance Bank and Temirbank from Samruk-Kazyna Sovereign Wealth Fund.
13 December 2013