Lee Kun Hee

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee, who transformed the South Korean firm into a global tech titan, died at the age of 78 on Sunday, the company said. Under Lee's leadership, Samsung rose to become the world's largest producer of smartphones and memory chips, and the firm's overall turnover today is equivalent to a fifth of South Korea's GDP.

Indian and Chinese technology entrepreneurs were leading the top 10 Asian tech billionaires list with net assets worth $136 billion, according to an industry source and recent market data.

Lee, 72, is credited with turning the company into the giant leading the world's memory chip and smartphone markets.

Lee is known to have had problems with his respiratory system since surgery for lung cancer in 1999.

India's Supreme Court ordered South Korea's richest man, to appear in a local court within six weeks to answer fraud and other criminal charges.

Samsung responded to the Supreme Court's 31 March order on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court said Lee Kun-hee's arrest warrant shall not be executed for six weeks.

The Supreme Court has asked handset maker Samsung Electronics' Chairman Lee Kun-hee to surrender in a $1.4 million (or Rs 84 lakh at 1 dollar=60 rupee) cheating case. Mr Kun-hee, a South Korean billionaire, has to surrender before the Ghaziabad court within six weeks, the top court has ruled.

Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Kun-hee, who transformed the South Korean firm into a global tech titan, died at the age of 78 on Sunday, the company said. Under Lee's leadership, Samsung rose to become the world's largest producer of smartphones and memory chips, and the firm's overall turnover today is equivalent to a fifth of South Korea's GDP.

Indian and Chinese technology entrepreneurs were leading the top 10 Asian tech billionaires list with net assets worth $136 billion, according to an industry source and recent market data.

Lee, 72, is credited with turning the company into the giant leading the world's memory chip and smartphone markets.

Lee is known to have had problems with his respiratory system since surgery for lung cancer in 1999.

India's Supreme Court ordered South Korea's richest man, to appear in a local court within six weeks to answer fraud and other criminal charges.

Samsung responded to the Supreme Court's 31 March order on Wednesday.

The Supreme Court said Lee Kun-hee's arrest warrant shall not be executed for six weeks.

The Supreme Court has asked handset maker Samsung Electronics' Chairman Lee Kun-hee to surrender in a $1.4 million (or Rs 84 lakh at 1 dollar=60 rupee) cheating case. Mr Kun-hee, a South Korean billionaire, has to surrender before the Ghaziabad court within six weeks, the top court has ruled.