1. About Robert Kuok :
Robert Kuok Hock Nien is a Malaysian business magnate and investor of Chinese descent. He is one of the wealthiest people in Malaysia and the 104th wealthiest person in the world.
2. Net worth : $15.5 billion as of 2022.
3. Born on : 6 October 1923 in Johor Bahru (Age 98)
4. Parents Name : Kuok Keng Kang and Robert’s mother Zheng Ge Ru
5. Occupation : Businessman
6. Education : He studied at Raffles Institution and English College Johore Bahru.
7. He used to work as a Clerk in the rice trading department of Japanese Company Mitsubishi during the period between 1942 and 1945.
8.Business interests : Sugarcane plantations (Perlis Plantations Bhd), sugar refineries, flour milling, animal feed, oil, mining, finance, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Kerry Properties, trading, Kerry Logistics, and publishing.
9. His biggest source of wealth is a stake in Wilmar International, the world’s largest listed palm oil trader company.
10. On 12May 2018, he was appointed as one of the five members of the Council of Eminent Persons to advise the new Pakatan Harapan federal government.
11. In 1961, He bought the sugar from India before the price shot up and continued to invest in sugar refineries controlling the whole Malaysian sugar market with 1.5 million productions which is equivalent to 10% of world production, earning him the name “Sugar King of Asia”.
12. In March 2018, Kuok published a book about his life entitled, Robert Kuok : A Memoir which had won the Best Book of the Year at the Singapore Book Publishers Association awards 2018.
13. In 1970, he launched the non-profit Kuok Foundation a non-profitable charitable institution with the mission to alleviate poverty and reduce economic disparities.
14. Kuok is a follower of Buddhism religiously.
15. Kuok lives in Deep Water Bay on Hong Kong Island.
16. He is a Media Shy person.
17. His companies have investments in many countries, including Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, China, Indonesia, Fiji, and Australia. Businesses in China include 10 bottling companies for Coca-Cola and ownership of the Beijing World Trade Centre.
18. In 1971, he built the first Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore, and in 1977 he acquired a plot of land where he built his second hotel the Kowloon Shangri-La.
19. He is married twicetoJoyce Cheah and Pauline Ho Poh Lin and has 8 children.
20. Quotes : “ More than 90% is hard work, the rest is luck”.
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