More than 30 billionaires have agreed to donate at least half their fortunes to charity; the list was made public yesterday. The New York Times’ Louise Story, has the details of this new venture by some of the country’s richest people.
Bill Gates, Warren Buffet prod Chinese millionaires for charity
Bill Gates and Bill Gates, Sr. on ‘Showing Up For Life’
US moguls Bill Gates and Warren Buffett hosted a private dinner in Beijing on Wednesday for some of China’s newly rich to talk about giving their money away. Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out more from the BBC’s Michael Bristow.
Bill Gates is officially stepping down as head of Microsoft today to devote himself full-time to his work as a philanthropist, but first we get some snapshots from around the world of what the people think of when they hear the name Bill Gates.