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Robert Kuok Hock Nien, better known as Robert Kuok, [a] (born 6 October 1923) is a Malaysian business magnate, investor and philanthropist based in Hong Kong since 1973. [2] According to Forbes, his net worth is estimated at $11.8 billion as of April 2023, [3] making him the wealthiest Malaysian citizen [4] [5] and 96th wealthiest person in the ...
Khoo joined the new bank and soon became a manager. In 1965, he was seconded to Bank Bumiputra, and quickly rose to a senior position. In his ten years there, he built relationships with Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, Robert Kuok and Tan Koon Swan. [2]
The company was founded in 1968 as Perlis Plantations Berhad (from which it derives its current name) by Robert Kuok to cultivate and mill sugar cane in the northern Malaysian state of Perlis. The company went public in 1972 and has since ventured into other industries, although it exited the sugar business in 2009.
JFK's only grandson posted a series of videos to social media sites on ... Then-independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a voter rally at The Hangar at Stanley ...
Kwek's father, the late Kwek Hong Png left Tongan, Fujian province, China as a penniless teenager for Singapore and subsequently founded the Hong Leong group there. Kwek Leng Beng was trained as lawyer in London, but chose to join the family business in the early 1960s.
The England native became a stepmother to her husband Taylor Hackford's two sons, Alex and Rio, after their 1997 nuptials. Rio, who died in April 2022 at the age of 51 after a cancer battle, was a ...
Robert Kuok (born 1923), Malaysian born Chinese, Hong Kong billionaire, chairman of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts; Phillip Kwok (born 1951) Hong Kong–based Taiwanese actor, martial artist, and stuntman. Didik Nini Thowok (born Kwee Tjoen An, 1954), Indonesian dancer; Kwik Kian Gie (born 1935), Indonesian politicians
Kuok was born in the seaside village of Mersing in Johor, Malaysia, the second of four children of Kuok Hock Swee and Tan Sek Meng. His father was an elder cousin of Malaysian Chinese billionaire Robert Kuok. [1] He was educated at Sri Mersing Primary, St Joseph's School and the English College, Johor Bahru. [citation needed]