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Wednesday   9 /4 /2002


Briton is youngest person on world’s rich list

  A British entrepreneur* is the youngest person on a list of the world’s 40 richest people under the age of 40.Manchester-born Reuben Singh, 25, who is worth 97.62 million pounds, is placed 39 on the list by business magazine Fortune.

 Singh launched his fashion company Miss Attitude at the age of 18, and went on to sell it in a multimillion pound deal.His RS Group is involved in property*, retail*, currency trading and construction and his latest venture* — AllDayPA — is a service that allows people to have their own virtual* personal office with telephone answering and call management.The list includes a large variety of sources of wealth and the nationalities of the most wealthy.Oil, banking, property, media, telecoms, computer and Internet companies are all represented, but other more unexpected businesses include flowers, cement, furniture and aquatic* feed.

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  Write T for True and F for False:1. The names in the list are all under the age of 40.2. Reuben Singh launched his RS Group at the age of 18.3. According to the article, AllDayPA is a service that allows people to have office with Internet.4. The list also includes names in industries like flowers, cement, furniture and aquatic feed.

  

  

  

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