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16. Ma Huateng, 46, Internet media, $45.3 B Ma Huateng, chairman and CEO of Tencent Holdings Ltd., speaks during a press conference to announce his companies' annual results in Hong Kong. The company co-founded by Ma in 1998 has gone from success to success, first in online games, then with its QQ instant message service and now as operator of the hugely popular WeChat social media platform, which it says has 550 million active users. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

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18. Mukesh Ambani, 61, Petrochemicals, oil & gas, $40.1 B India's Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani poses for photographs as he arrives for the company's annual general meeting in Mumbai, India, Thursday, June 6, 2013. Reliance Industries is India's largest private sector company. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Associated Press)

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3. Warren Buffett, 87, Berkshire Hathaway, $84 B Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett speaks during an interview in Omaha, Neb., Monday, May 7, 2018, with Liz Claman on Fox Business Network's "Countdown to the Closing Bell". (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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19. Jack Ma, 53, e-commerce, $39 B Founder and chairman of Alibaba Jack Ma leaves after signing the memorandums of understanding linked to the investment in the country during a press conference Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, April 19, 2018. The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has agreed to step up investments in Thailand as competition between online retailers heats up in fast-growing Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

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4. Bernard Arnault, 69, LVMH, $72 B CEO of LVMH Bernard Arnault smiles as he arrives to present the group's 2017 results during a media conference in Paris, France, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. Luxury giant LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton has solidified its leading role in the industry with record profits in 2017, but is more cautious about the year ahead because of the strengthening euro and political uncertainty in the Mideast and Koreas. (AP Photos/Michel Euler)

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Chart to accompany Moore article of Aug. 27, 2018.

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Senate Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations member Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., questions Education Secretary Betsy DeVos during a hearing to review the Fiscal Year 2019 funding request and budget justification for the U.S. Department of Education on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Trump finally meets a tweet he doesn't like. (Illustration by Dana Summers of the Tribune Media Services)

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Illustration on steel tariffs' impact on U.S. energy production by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon shared her vision for "Heavenly Africa" at the Africa Summit in Dakar, Senegal. (PHOTO CREDIT: HSA-UWC)

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Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr answers questions from the media after his speech at the 16th Annual Institute for Corporate Counsel in Los Angeles, Calif., March 13, 1997. Starr said on Thursday that is would be wrong to set time limits on independent counsel probes, since justice does not occur in neat chronological chunks. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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"President [Cyril] Ramaphosa has pledged that the land reform process will follow the rule of law and its implementation will not adversely affected economic growth, agricultural production, or food security," the State Department said in a statement. (Associated Press)

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Naval Security Strategy Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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A Frontier Airlines Airbus arrives at a gate on the A concourse of Denver International Airport in this photograph taken on Tuesday, July 11, 2006. Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. releases first-quarter earnings. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) ** FILE **