A record 56 women around the world made the female billionaires list this year, up from 42 in 2016, with a combined wealth of US$129 billion this year, says Forbes magazine. Forbes released yesterday its World's Self-Made Women Billionaires list, a day after International Women's Day. A record high of 25% of the world's women billionaires are self-made, compared with 21% in 2016. More than half of these enterprising women hail from Asia, with 29 self-made women billionaires from the region making the list. "This was the first year women from Vietnam and Japan made the female billionaires list," said Luisa Kroll, managing editor of wealth at Forbes Media.

Source: Bangkok Post March 10, 2017 00:20 UTC