Vietjet CEO makes world's self-made women billionaires list
VOV.VN -More women entrepreneurs than ever before have climbed into the 10-figure club, said Forbes in connection with the release its most recent world's self-made women billionaires list.
A record 56 self-made women are now billionaires including the first ever from countries like Vietnam and Japan.
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Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, CEO of Vietjet, ranked No. 45 on the list with total assets of US$1.2 billion. Educated in Russia in the 1990s, Nguyen also owns 5-star hotels and resorts in Vietnam.
The richest self-made woman in the world is Zhou Qunfei, whose publicly traded Lens Technology makes glass covers for mobile phones and tablets for customers like Apple and Samsung.
She is one of 29 self-made women billionaires from Asia named on the list.
