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New look at Thai royal riches

New look at Thai royal riches

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Dec 06, 2007
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Is the Thai royal

family the world’s richest royalty? Over the years, journalists

and academics have attempted to put a value on the Crown Property

Bureau (CPB), the business arm of Thailand’s royal family.

Usually its wealth was

estimated somewhere between the $2 billion cited by Forbes magazine

in 1997 and the $8 billion assigned in Michael Backman’s 1999

bo…

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