The richest man in Asean

  Khamtai Siphandone                 Net Worth  US$ 800-860 million                Hailing from a family of peasants and working as a postman for his first job, General Khamtai Siphandone is a former Laotian politician and served as the President of Laos, from February 1998 to June 2016. He was also a member of the Communist Party of Indochina in 1954 and sat on the Central Committee of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party in 1956.

  Tay Za                Net worth US$1.3 billion (2020)              Tay Za (IPA: [tèza̰]; Burmese: တေဇ, pronounced [tèza̰]; also spelled Tayza or Teza; born 18 July 1964) is a Burmese business tycoon and the Chairman of Htoo Group of Companies, Myanmar. He is a close associate of the country's former head of state, Than Shwe. He is the first Myanmar entrepreneur to appear on the cover of Forbes Asia and still remains the richest man in Myanmar.

  Kith Meng                Net worth US$2 billion (2020)           Kith Meng (Khmer: គិត ម៉េង; Chinese: 陈丰明 born September 1, 1968) is a Cambodian businessman. He is the Chairman and CEO of The Royal Group which counts among its many holdings 45% of J Trust Royal Bank, the mobile phone operator Cellcard and 100% of Royal Railways. Meng also owns[1] 100% stake in Cambodia’s leading television and telecommunications networks CBS, Hydro Power Lower Sesan 2,[2] a 400MW plant, Chailease Royal Leasing and Chailease Royal Finance in partnership with Chailease of Taiwan, Cambodian Broadcasting Corporation and CamGSM.[3] Meng is known for his preferences for entering Cambodian companies into joint ventures including international companies.

  Pham Nhat Vuong                Net worth US$7 Billion (2020)                  Phạm Nhật Vượng (born 5 August 1968) is a Vietnamese property developer and Vietnam's first billionaire. The first Vietnamese Billionaire, richest Vietnamese, founder and chairman of Vingroup.

  Si Siblings             Net worth US$13.9 Billion (September 2020)              The Sy siblings of the SM group and former politician, Manuel B. Villar Jr., are still the wealthiest Filipinos in 2020, according to the Forbes list of the richest people in the Philippines.

  Robert Kuok            Net worth US$17.9 Billion (January 2021)           Robert Kuok is media-shy; most of his businesses are privately held by him or his family. Apart from a multitude of businesses in Malaysia, his companies have investments in many countries throughout Asia.[6] His business interests range from sugarcane plantations (Perlis Plantations Bhd), sugar refineries, flour milling, animal feed, oil, mining, finance, hotel (Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts), property, trading, freight and publishing.[2] His biggest source of wealth is a stake in Wilmar International, the world's largest listed palm oil trader company.

Li Xiting            Net worth US$11.6 billion (April 2020)         The richest person in Singapore is Li Xiting, the founder and CEO of a company that supplies medical devices. Li didn't even break into the top 15 richest people in Singapore in January — now, he's worth $18.1 billion, according to Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires list. The executive's wealth has skyrocketed during the coronavirus pandemic as countries around the world buy his company's medical products, which include ventilators, imaging devices, and patient monitors, per the South China Morning Post.

  Dhanin Chearavanont               Net worth US$17.2 billion (January 2021)              Dhanin Chearavanont (Thai: ธนินท์ เจียรวนนท์), known in Chinese as Chia Kok Min Chinese: 謝國民; pinyin: Xiè Guómín; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhía2 Kok1-Mín5) (born 1939) is a Thai billionaire businessman, based in Bangkok. He is the senior chairman of CP Group, Thailand's largest private company. Dhanin is head of the Chearavanont family, which was ranked by Forbes Asia in 2017 as Asia's fourth-wealthiest family with a net worth of US$36.6 billion.[3][4] As of August 2020, his net worth was estimated at $14.3 billion.

Robert Budi Hartono              Net worth US$19.8 billion (December 2020)                Robert Budi Hartono (traditional Chinese: 黃惠忠; simplified Chinese: 黄惠忠; pinyin: Huáng Huìzhōng; Hokkien: Oei Hwie Tjhong born in 1940) is a Chinese Indonesian tobacco billionaire with a 2018 net worth of US$12.6 billion. He owns and runs the privately held Djarum, the world's third largest maker of clove cigarettes. Djarum has reportedly recently grabbed shares from the number two cigarette firm, Sampoerna. Budi Hartono also has a stake with his brother, Michael Bambang Hartono in one of Indonesia's biggest banks, Bank Central Asia, formerly controlled by billionaire Liem Sioe Liong. In 2020, according to American business magazine, Forbes, Budi Hartono's net worth reportedly reached US$13.6 billion and he was noted as the richest Indonesian and 80th richest person in the world.

His Majesty Sultan  Hassanal Bolkiah           Net worth US$20 billion (2020)          Hassanal Bolkiah[2] (Jawi: حسن البلقية) (born 15 July 1946) is the 29th and current Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan of Brunei and the Prime Minister of Brunei. He is one of the last absolute monarchs in the world. The eldest son of Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III and Raja Isteri (Queen) Pengiran Anak Damit, he succeeded to the throne as the sultan of Brunei, following the abdication of his father on 5 October 1967.