This story appears in the March 2018 issue of Forbes Asia. SubscribeI've been at Forbes long enough to remember when Billionaires was a much shorter list. That's what our colleague for many years, Andrew Tanzer, did most notably in the case of Robert Kuok. From 100 hours of interviews in a collaboration of 14 interrupted years, he helped Kuok produce a memoir that has taken Asian bookstores by storm. That's why, for journalists, there's no better score keeping job than the wealth counts we do--especially when they attach to a fascinating figure like Robert Kuok.

Source: Forbes March 07, 2018 21:56 UTC