World’s Latest Billionaire Emerges From Costly Asia Divorce

  • Chinese tycoon Du gives $3.2 billion of shares to ex-wife
  • Vaccine maker Shenzhen Kangtai has surged 60% this year

Kangtai has surged 60% this year, taking its market value to more than $13 billion.

Photographer: Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg
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A new female billionaire has emerged from one of Asia’s most-expensive breakups.

Du Weimin, the chairman of Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products Co., transferred 161.3 million shares of the vaccine maker to his ex-wife, Yuan Liping, according to a May 29 filingBloomberg Terminal, immediately catapulting her into the ranks of the world’s richest.