Monday, June 22, 2009

The Richest Man in S1BU.

Who is the richest Man in S1BU? Well, it's Tan Sri Tiong Hiew King

Below the copy from the Wikipedia about a little bit of Tan Sri Tiong Hiew King's biodata.
Is'nt he, the richest in S1BU ?

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tiong Hiew King
Occupation : Executive Chairman, Rimbunan Hijau Group.

Net worth
US$1.1 billion (2007)

Tan Sri Datuk Tiong Hiew King (simplified Chinese: 张晓卿; traditional Chinese: 張曉卿; pinyin: Zhāng Xiǎoqīng) is the Malaysian Chinese founder and chairman of the Rimbunan Hijau Group, a timber company founded in 1975. Its overseas timber operations in Papua New Guinea is the largest in that country. He also has interests in logging operations in Russia.

Mr Tiong resides in
Sibu, a town in Sarawak, of Borneo island that belongs to Malaysia. With a reported net worth of about US$1.1 billion, Tiong is ranked by Forbes as the 840th richest person in the world.
Tiong's Rimbunan Hijau Group also controls Sin Chew Jit Poh and Guang Ming Daily, two of the major Chinese national dailies in Malaysia, The National Daily in Papua New Guinea and Ming Pao Holdings Ltd in Hong Kong. He is forging a global Chinese publishing group with his Ming Pao Enterprises; Ming Pao newspaper is also available in San Francisco, New York, Vancouver and Toronto.



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Tan Sri Tiong Hiew King is ranked at No. 9 in 2008 (Source: Forbes)


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This is the New Paper Cutting from Sin Chew Daily New (Mandarin Version)
congratulating Tan Sri Tiong Hiew King being conferred "the Knight commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire" by HRH Queen Elizabeth II of Britain.

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