You have to enjoy the fabulously entertaining spectacle that is the fight to win the title of Asia's richest person. Following the IPO last year of his online retailer Alibaba, that title went to China's Jack Ma. The physically unprepossessing Mr Ma somehow didn't look like what I imagined Asia's richest man to look like. Then again, just what is Asia's richest man supposed to look like? I have the answer to that. He's supposed to look like Li Ka-shing; lean and soigne, trademark offbeat square spectacles framing the wily face that has become iconic thanks to his owning of that title for most of the last two decades.
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