TAN SRI ROBERT KUOK HOCK NIEN
Robert Kuok, Malaysia's richest man, raised $300 million in 2014 with the Singapore listing of his PACC Offshore Services Holdings, Asia's largest operator of vessels for offshore oil & gas exploration. His Kuok Group controls a slew of listed companies in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. The Chinese Malaysian tycoon made his fortune in sugar, palm oil, shipping and real estate. A big source of wealth is a stake in palm oil giant Wilmar International, which is run by nephew Kuok Khoon Hong, a Singapore billionaire. Robert Kuok also controls Hong Kong's South China Morning Post, once the world's most profitable daily newspaper.
TAN SRI T.ANANDA KRISHNAN
Ananda Krishnan, who continues to be Malaysia's second-richest person, took a $1.6 billion hit to his net worth in 2014-15, partly because of the slump in shares of Bumi Armada, an offshore oilfield services provider. The sudden departure of Bumi's CEO in December 2014 sparked speculation that he might take the company private. In February 2015 he bailed out state-owned 1Malaysia Development so that it could repay a $555 million loan that, reports say, was guaranteed by his holding company, Usaha Tegas. Telecom assets make up more than half his wealth, led by his controlling stake in Malaysia's Maxis. But his debt-laden Indian telecom, Aircel, continues to be embroiled in a federal investigation into how he acquired it. Krishnan has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. His only son is a Buddhist monk in Thailand.
TAN SRI QUEK LENG CHAN
Quek Leng Chan chairs privately held conglomerate Hong Leong Co. (Malaysia), which holds stakes in the finance, property and food sectors. Now investing in oil & gas, he forked out at least $180 million in 2014 to acquire sizable stakes in Indonesia oil & gas producer Samudra Energy, Malaysian outfits Scomi Energy Services and Alam Maritim Resources, and Singapore-listed Ezion, a supplier of support vessels for oilfields. His cousin, Singapore billionaire Kwek Leng Beng, chairs a part a part of the family business, Hong Leong Group. Quek inherited his fortune from his father, one of brothers who started a small banking group in the 1920s.
TAN SRI LIM KOK THAY
Lim Kok Thay opened the Genting Jeju Casino in South Korea in January, part of a multibillion-dollar push to expand the Genting Group globally. Fortune is down by $1 billion in a sluggish year for its casinos in Malaysia and Singapore. Business at Genting Malaysia was hit by the drop in Chinese visitors after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared a year ago, while Genting Singapore is seeing fewer high rollers as the mainland Chinese economy slows. Wealth is shared with his mother, Lee Kim Hua, and other family members. His late father, Lim Goh Tong, started the business after arriving in Malaysia from Fujian, China at age 19.
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