30 Business, Money, and Life Lessons from Chinese Billionaires in the Philippines

Donnabeth Aniban

12 min readJun 18, 2021

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The richest family in the Philippines is Chinese.

Out of the ten richest in the Philippines in 2020 by Forbes, seven are Chinese or have Chinese descent; they are the Sy siblings, Lance Gokongwei and siblings, Andrew Tan, Lucio Tan, Ramon Ang, Tony Tan Caktiong, and the Co couple Lucio and Susan. Out of 20 billionaires in the…

Donnabeth Aniban

Written by Donnabeth Aniban

Mom since 2011. Filipino. Former nurse and teacher. Writer and entrepreneur atm. I write mostly about life, business, health, productivity, and motherhood.

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