Prices have been rocketing in china. Is that suddenly we should be concerned about . Rico hizon will make sense of that for you in a moment. But we start in seoul, where the trial of the century is getting started. The head of the biggest company, samsung, is on trialfor bribery. Samsung might be a household name, globally, but his bossis household name, globally, but his boss is not. So what we know about him . He is the boss of the company, jay y lee, but is known by south korean media as the crown prince of samsung. That is because he is the only son of the chairman, lee kun hee, who was convicted of bribery and tax evasion himself, but was pardoned. So jay y lee has been in charge since his father had a heart attack in 2014. He has been the de facto boss. So the lee family are phenomenally wealthy. You can see the figure behind me. Forbes magazine ranking them asias richest Family Last Yearfor Magazine ranking them asias richest family last year for the second year ina family last
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Subscriber only Widespread rain across the Wilsons River catchment area overnight is contributing to Minor Flooding in the city this morning. The Bureau of Meteorology said heavy rainfall on Tuesday and overnight into Wednesday has caused river level rises in the tributaries upstream of Lismore. A minor flood peak is expected at Lismore this afternoon. River levels along Leycester Creek peaked at Rock Valley near 3.8 metres around 5am this morning and along Goolmangar Creek river levels peaked at Goolmangar at 7.0 metres around 5am. Along Wilsons Creek River levels have peaked at Nashua at 3.8 metres around 3am and are nearing a peak at Eltham. Coopers Creek at Corndale peaked near 5.2 metres around 5am.