American billionaire Bill Gates and his girlfriend traveled to Da Nang and Hoi An yesterday morning on a private plane after attending the wedding of billionaire Ambani's son in India.
VnExpress sources said the American billionaire returned to Vietnam after 18 years and had a personal trip to Da Nang and Hoi An for about 5 days. His private flight with his girlfriend arrived in Da Nang on the morning of March 4 and the billionaire stayed at a 5-star resort in Son Tra district. He also planned to go to Hoi An for tourism.
In 2006, Bill Gates visited Vietnam for a one-day trip and met with representatives of the information technology industry. During that trip, Bill Gates spent a day visiting Tu Son district, Bac Ninh , and tried chewing betel and listening to Quan Ho folk songs.
Billionaire Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January. Photo: AFP
Before the trip to Vietnam, on the evening of March 1, the Microsoft founder and his girlfriend Paula Kalupa, along with the global elite, attended a $120 million party to celebrate the upcoming wedding of billionaire Mukesh Ambani's son.
Bill Gates, born in 1955, is the co-founder of the world's largest software corporation Microsoft, having held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect. He is considered one of the pioneers of the computer revolution in the 1970s and 1980s. Since 1987, he has been on the Forbes list of world billionaires and held the title of the world's richest person from 1995 to 2017, except for the years 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013.
As of March, Gates is worth $149 billion, making him the fifth richest person in the world. After leaving his executive role at Microsoft in 2008, he has continued to pursue business and philanthropic projects. He is the founder and chairman of several companies, including BEN, Cascade Investment, TerraPower, bgC3, and Breakthrough Energy. He also donates large sums of money to charities and scientific research through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charity.
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