Thai King is Richest Royal. Emperor Leech?

[makapaaa]

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Published August 23, 2008

</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=452 colSpan=2>King Bhumibol is wealthiest royal: Forbes
Thai monarch's fortune is estimated at US$35b; UAE's Sheik Khalifa is 2nd on list with net worth of US$23b

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(NEW YORK) With a fortune estimated at US$35 billion, Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej is the world's richest royal sovereign, and oil-rich Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi is far back at No 2, Forbes magazine reported on Thursday.

<TABLE class=picBoxL cellSpacing=2 width=100 align=left><TBODY><TR><TD> </TD></TR><TR class=caption><TD>King Abdullah: The Saudi king is ranked 3rd with US$21b of wealth </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>King Bhumibol, 80 and, at 62 years on the throne the world's longest-serving head of state, pushed to the top of the richest royals list by virtue of a greater transparency surrounding his fortune, Forbes said.
It said that the Crown Property Bureau, which manages most of his family's wealth, 'granted unprecedented access this year, revealing vast landholdings, including 3,493 acres in Bangkok'.
Forbes called it a good year for monarchies, investment-wise. 'As a group, the world's 15 richest royals have increased their total wealth to US$131 billion, up from US$95 billion last year,' Forbes said on its website.
With oil prices soaring, the monarchs of the petro-kingdoms of the Middle East and Asia dominate the list.
Sheik Khalifa, 60, the current president of the United Arab Emirates, was estimated to be worth US$23 billion, on the back of Abu Dhabi's huge petroleum reserves.
In third was the sovereign of the world's biggest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, 84, who inherited the Al-Saud family throne in 2005, came in with a fortune of US$21 billion.
The previous king of kings, wealth-wise, 62-year-old Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah of tiny, oil-endowed Brunei on the South-east Asia island of Borneo, fell to fourth place with US$20 billion.
'The sultan, who inherited the riches of an unbroken 600-year-old Muslim dynasty, has had to cut back on his country's oil production because of depleting reserves,' Forbes explained of his dwindling fortune.
Fifth was Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, 58, of another Emirate, Dubai, with a net worth of US$18 billion.
One of two Europeans on the list, Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein, 63, ranked six on the list with US$5 billion in wealth. However, the bank that is a key source of his family's wealth, LGT, is under investigation by the United States for helping wealthy people evade taxes.
Qatar's Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, 56, came in at seventh, worth US$2 billion; eighth was King Mohammed VI of Morocco, 46, his US$1.5 billion fortune based on phosphate mining, agriculture and other investments.
Number nine was Prince Albert II of Monaco, 50, his diverse fortune in the southern European principality put at US$1.4 billion.
Tenth on the list was Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman, 67, worth US$1.1 billion.
Rounding out the top 15 were: The Aga Khan Prince Karim Al Hussein, 71 (US$1.0 billion); Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, 82, US$650 million; Kuwait's Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79, US$500 million; Queen Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard of the Netherlands, 70, US$300 million; and King Mswati III of Swaziland, 40, with US$200 million.
Forbes noted that because many of the royals inherited their wealth, share it with extended families, and often control it 'in trust for their nation or territory', none of those on its list would qualify for the magazine's famous annual world billionaires ranking.
'Because of technical and idiosyncratic oddities in the exact relationship between individual and state wealth, these estimates are perforce a blend of art and science,' it added. -- AFP

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[jbsmith]

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has slipped to No 4 from No 1 last year.

Following is Forbes' ranking of the world's richest royals:

1. King Buhimol Adulyadej (Thailand)

2. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan (United Arab Emirates)

3. King Abdullah (Saudi Arabia)

4. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah (Brunei)

5. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid al-Maktoum (Dubai)

6. Prince Hans Adam II (Liechtenstein)

7. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani (Qatar)

8. King Mohammed VI (Morocco)

9. Prince Albert II (Monaco)

10. Sultan Qaboos bin Said (Oman)

11. Prince Karim Al Husseini (Agha Khan)

12. Queen Elizabeth (Britain)

13. Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah (Kuwait)

14. Queen Beatrix (Netherlands)

15. King Mswati III (Swaziland)

 

[jerry]

If the FamiLee declares their assets, there will be a riot in Singapore immediately

 

[makapaaa]

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has slipped to No 4 from No 1 last year.

While the No. 0 is always at No. 0?

 

[myo539]

The focus should be on how a monarch of a third world country can amass so much wealth while his people are suffering - men tolling in construction sites all over the world, and women prostituting themselves at home and abroad.

Won't he feel a sense of guilt? Is that why he feels threatened by Thaksin - who is doing better for the poor than their king in just a few years?

 

[molly]

The Lee made a lot of money. Maybe some from Temasek too

 

[luvcunt]

Chey USD 35 billion only.....our king lee have got the whole island plus USD180 billion n power

 

[tonychat]

Chey USD 35 billion only.....our king lee have got the whole island plus USD180 billion n power

35 billion plus the whole country love and bow to him.


USD180 billion? with almost everyone wanted him dead. That is the result of being a sinkie.

 

[xdecepticon]

35Billion!! He should be helping thoseThai woman in the fresh trade!

 

[Big Sexy]

what do u prefer?
he giving us his woman to bed or us giving ourselves handjobs?

35Billion!! He should be helping thoseThai woman in the fresh trade!

 

[johnny333]

Saw this old thread & in those old days 35 billion was really something. All this time no one suspected that LKY was richer than the Thai king

So how much is LKY worth $200, ...$300 billion....$400 billion... Will we ever know the truth

 

[eErotica69]

35 billion plus the whole country love and bow to him.


USD180 billion? with almost everyone wanted him dead. That is the result of being a sinkie.

I think is bestest to have 9 Kings in one country! Cool!

 

[SgGoneWrong]

Saw this old thread & in those old days 35 billion was really something. All this time no one suspected that LKY was richer than the Thai king

So how much is LKY worth $200, ...$300 billion....$400 billion... Will we ever know the truth

All assets on sinkieland inc. belong to old bastard.
Not forgetting all his reserve that will take 52 man years to count.
Do gong sinkies who are enslaved care? No, so long as they have peasants rice to eat, can travel for holidays, buy latest hand phone models, speculate in 1-2 properties then all will be good.

 

[SgGoneWrong]

Old bastard is worth more than 500 billion.
From this website: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIC_Private_Limited

Everything belongs to him, so GIC and Temasek combined at least 500 billion. All other assets not counted in yet.

Thai king is such a failure, generations of wealth accumulation only 35 billion. Old bastard only 2 generations already accumulated so much.

 

[The Penetrator]

Old bastard is worth more than 500 billion.
From this website: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIC_Private_Limited

Everything belongs to him, so GIC and Temasek combined at least 500 billion. All other assets not counted in yet.

Thai king is such a failure, generations of wealth accumulation only 35 billion. Old bastard only 2 generations already accumulated so much.

Hey bro want to form alliance ?

 

[SgGoneWrong]

Hey bro want to form alliance ?

No, you can't even afford infp points yourself.
Maybe better you go find a spider in a park to fuck

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

interesting is that the thai king and his family aren't known as spendthrifts at all. You don't read stories about their extravagenzte.

 

[atakak]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/13/w...ne-to-be-queen-gives-up-royal-title.html?_r=0

Thai Princess, Queen-to-Be, Gives Up Title

BANGKOK — The woman in line to be Thailand’s next queen has given up her royal title, the latest intrigue in a widening palace purge that has been shrouded in secrecy.

A terse entry in the government’s Royal Gazette said Princess Srirasm “requested permission” from her husband, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, 62, to give up her title.

“This has respectfully been communicated and permission has been granted,” said the announcement, dated Thursday. It was not reported in the Thai news media until just before midnight on Friday.

The palace intrigue is consequential for Thailand because Ms. Srirasm, 43, is the mother of Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti, 9, the presumed heir to the throne after his father.

At least six members of Ms. Srirasm’s family have been arrested in recent weeks, including an uncle, Lt. Gen. Pongpat Chayapan, a former high-ranking police officer accused of masterminding a corruption scheme that the police say included gambling dens, fuel smuggling and the sale of senior national police positions.

Last month, the office of the crown prince ordered the government to strip his wife’s relatives of their royally bestowed name, Akkarapongpreecha. Among other crimes, the relatives and police officers associated with them are charged with using the prestige of the monarchy for their own benefit. In one case, Ms. Srirasm’s sister is accused of monopolizing the sale of chili paste and vegetables to the crown prince’s palace.

The purge has been reported obliquely in Thailand, with palace observers using a kind of Kremlinology in coverage of Ms. Srirasm, a commoner by birth and the crown prince’s third wife.

This week, her photo vanished from a montage of royal family members displayed nightly on the royal news. She was also absent from at least one ceremony at which she appeared in the past.

The Royal Gazette announcement described Ms. Srirasm as the “royal consort” to Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, suggesting they are still married.

At a televised military ceremony on Dec. 7, the official M.C.s did not identify a woman next to the crown prince.

The health of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 87, has been a source of anxiety. The king, a symbol of national unity at a time of divisive politics and ascendant military power, canceled his traditional birthday address on his doctors’ advice.

A law limits Thai news outlets in covering the royal family, with prison for defaming, insulting or threatening the “king, queen, heir apparent or regent.”

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

the real truth.................the richest royal is Queen Elizabeth..........

 

[johnny333]

the real truth.................the richest royal is Queen Elizabeth..........

Obviously she is wealthy but I think there are limits imposed on her by english society on how she should behave.

If she behaved like LKY she would soon loose the respect of the Brits.