Milestones

WON . By NINA WANG , 68, Asia's richest woman; an eight-year legal battle for control of her dead husband's multibillion-dollar real-estate empire; in Hong Kong. The Court of Final Appeal unanimously overturned a 2002 ruling that a will in which husband Teddy Wang left her his entire estate had been forged; the industrialist was kidnapped in 1990 and declared legally dead nine years later. Nina Wang, famous for her schoolgirl pigtails and flamboyant fashion sense, now regains full control of the Chinachem Group, the company that she built into a $3.5 billion enterprise after taking control following her husband's...

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