福布斯全球富豪榜：李嘉誠首進前十奪亞洲首富

Mexico telecommunications czar Carlos Slim topped the Forbes annual world's richest list on Wednesday, holding the edge over Microsoft's Bill Gates who continued to give away billions of his fortune to charity. 《福布斯》2012年度全球富豪榜在週三出爐，墨西哥通信巨頭、億萬富翁卡洛斯·斯利姆位居榜單首位，力壓排名第二的微軟總裁比爾·蓋茨。他在過去的一年繼續將鉅額財富用於慈善事業。

Despite a US$6 billion (S$7.57 billion) hit to his wealth from slumping stock markets over the past year, Forbes said Mr Slim's US$69 billion was enough to keep him on top of its global billionaires list for the third straight year. 儘管在2011年由於股市暴跌斯利姆的財富縮水60億美元，但《福布斯》表示斯利姆690億美元的財富值還是力壓全球億萬富豪。墨西哥通信巨頭已經連續三年蟬聯榜首。

Mr Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, had a fortune worth US$61 billion, still hefty after having given away US$28 billion over recent years to global causes such as fighting Aids and polio. 微軟創始人比爾·蓋茨財富值爲610億美元。雖然在近些年蓋茨捐贈了280億美元用於救助艾滋和小兒麻痹症等全球性問題，但經濟實力仍然雄厚。

The two topped a list of 1,226 billionaires Forbes counted around the world, dominated as ever by Americans - 425 in total and 11 of the top 20 - but also underpinned by the rise of concentrated wealth in China and Russia. 今年的《福布斯》榜單共有1226名入選者，美國共有425名億萬富豪上榜，仍佔據領先地位。前二十的排名中也有11位來自美國。俄羅斯和中國大陸上榜富豪數量縮水，分列其後。

Fifty-eight countries were represented on the list of a record 1,226 billionaires, whose average fortune was US$3.7 Kong's Li Ka-shing took the ninth spot with a fortune of US$25.5 billion. 榜單上的1226名億萬富豪分別來自58個國家，平均財富值爲37億美元。來自香港的華人首富李嘉誠以255億美元的財富值位列第九名，首次進入前十成亞洲首富。TOP Ten of Forbes World's Billionaires List: 《福布斯》全球富豪榜前十：

卡洛斯 斯利姆及其家族/Carlos Slim Helu & family

比爾·蓋茨/Bill Gates

沃倫·巴菲特/Warren Buffett

伯納德·阿諾特/Bernard Arnault

阿曼西奧·奧特加/Amancio Ortega

拉里·埃裏森/Larry Ellison

埃克·巴蒂斯塔/Eike Batista

斯蒂芬·佩爾森/Stefan Persson

李嘉誠/Li Ka-shing