Bill Gates

Bill Gates hopeful of more aid from China

28 May 2013

The world’s richest man Bill Gates on Tuesday urged China to become a bigger player in foreign development following its success in lifting millions of its own people out of poverty.

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Bill Gates criticised after handshake with South Korean president

24 Apr 2013

Microsoft founder Bill Gates' casual style was criticised by the South Korean media yesterday after he shook hands with President Park Geun-Hye with his other hand in his pocket. The picture of...

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India’s billionaire club slow to share riches

20 Mar 2013

They may build skyscraper mansions, travel by private jet and throw sumptuous wedding parties, but it seems India’s super-rich are much slower at opening their wallets for charity.

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Gates teams up with China to build nuclear reactor

5 Dec 2011

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (pictured) is holding talks with the state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) to jointly develop a new type of nuclear reactor.

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Outlet for grudges untold

22 May 2011

Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft
by Paul Allen
Penguin

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Greed's helpmate

28 Mar 2011

So, you think my landlord hitting me with a 26 per cent rent rise after just one year is greed gone mad? Think again. A reader contacted me to say that what I wrote two weeks ago was nothing - he...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Chen Guangcheng misled by his new right-wing 'friends'

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Tom Holland

The yuan hasn't overtaken the HK$ quite yet, Mr Chan

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Generous to a fault

It used to be that a HK$90 million donation to a local university would automatically make a splash. But when tycoon Cheng Yu-tung extended such largesse last month to Hong Kong University of...

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Value for money

Whether it's justified or not, the 'hatred of the rich' sentiment seems to be back in fashion in Hong Kong.

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Better for Gates not to have taken the money than giving it back as charity

And finally a suspicion lingers, slowly fading but still there, that the foundation's activities are some sort of penance for [Bill] Gates' world-dominating behaviour at Microsoft

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Malcolm Gladwell

IT ALL ADDS UP I owe my success, in part, to a Chinese man. He loaned my Jamaican grandmother the money to send my mother to university in England, which is one of those lucky breaks that you'll...

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Windows dressing

Microsoft, the world's largest software company, has put Bill Gates back to work in its global campaign to reconnect with consumers. The firm's recently retired co-founder joins comedian Jerry...

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press play

After spending 30 years building one of the world's biggest technology companies, how will Bill Gates spend his last day at Microsoft before retiring in July?

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