Senarai Forbes: 12 rakyat Malaysia antara terkaya di dunia
- DRB-HICOM, which owns car maker Proton, sold a 49.9% stake in Proton to Chinese auto group Zhejiang Geely in 2017. This gave an 86% stock boost
Robert Kuok
$15.2 B- Robert Kuok is the richest man in Malaysia. He owns Kuok Group, which has interest in hotels, real estate and commodities.
- He founded internationally renowned Shangri-la Hotels in Singapore in 1971.
- His nephew Kuok Khoon Hong runs Wilmar International, which comprises the majority of his fortune

Quek Leng Chan
$7.3 B
- He is the executive chairman of privately held conglomerate Hong Leong Co. (Malaysia), which has interests in finance, property and food.
- He inherited part of his fortune from his father, one of 3 brothers who started a banking group in the 1920s.
- His son Kon Sean led the family into the e-commerce business in 2015 with the launch of GemFive, which sells everything from electronics to fashion.

AnandaKrishnan
$7 B
- Harvard Business School grad and former oil-trader, he is Malaysia's third-richest person.
- His holdings include stakes in telecom outfit Maxis, media firm Astro Malaysia Holdings and oilfield services-provider Bumi Armada.
- Krishnan's debt-laden Indian telecom firm Aircel's merger with Indian billionaire Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications unravelled last year.
- He has been embroiled in a long-running legal battle with Indonesian billionaire Mochtar Riady's Lippo Group over their failed pay-TV venture.

Teh Hong Piow
$6.6 B
- Tycoon chairs Malaysian banking behemoth Public Bank which he founded in 1966.
- In addition to Malaysians, the bank also serves millions of customers across Hong Kong, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos and Sri Lanka.
- He owns nearly a fourth of the bank as well as 44% of insurance business LPI Capital.
- He will be retiring in January 2019, after which he will become chairman emeritus.

Lee Shin Cheng
$5.4 B
- Lee chairs IOI Corp., the world leading in oleo-chemicals and one of the largest palm oil plantation companies in Malaysia.
- His younger son leads property group IOI Properties.
- He grew up on a rubber plantation where his father ran a Chinese food shop

Lim Kok Thay
$5.7 B
- As Genting chairman, Lim Kok Thay has fast expanded the group's global footprints in the gaming sector.
- Plans to open Resorts World Las Vegas in 2020 and launch the world's first 20th Century Fox movie-inspired theme park at Resorts World Genting in 2018.
- In February 2018, Lim's Empire Resorts Inc. opened $1.2 billion Resorts World Catskills, a casino, hotel and entertainment complex.
- The NY complex will be the largest integrated commercial casino resort in the state, fitted with more than 150 table games and 2,150 slot machines.
- On the home front, a family feud over the empire's wealth and businesses, which include a palm-oil unit, has been making local headlines

Chen Lip Keong
$3.6 B
- Chen Lip Keong's NagaWorld holds a casino license in Cambodian capital Phnom Penh running to 2065, with a guaranteed monopoly to 2035.
- NagaWorld is the largest casino resort in Indochina. Naga2 opened across the street in November 2017, connected by underground mall NagaCity Walk.
- NagaCorp is the first casino company listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange and the first doing business principally in Cambodia.
- Frustrated by the interest rates banks demanded to finance Naga2, Chen put up his own $369 million and took payment in company shares.
- NagaCorp is also developing a casino resort in Vladivostok in Russia's far east

Koon Poh Keong & Poh Ming
$3 B
- Koon Poh Keong is group CEO of aluminum company Press Metal while Koon Poh Ming is the executive vice chairman.
- They started Press Metal with their three other brothers--Poh Tat, Poh Weng and Poh Kong--in the mid-'80s.
- The brothers together pooled $50,000 to start the aluminum-extruding company, at a time when Malaysia was in a recession.
- Today Press Metal is Southeast Asia's largest integrated aluminum producer and competes with Rio Tinto, Russia's RUSAL and the Aluminum Corp of China.
- Pooh Keong and his older brother, Poh Ming, the two biggest shareholders, made the list for the first time in 2017.

Lau Cho Kun
$2.8 B
- Lau Cho Kun is the largest shareholder in Hap Seng Consolidate through Gek Poh, the firm's private holding.
- The diversified firm has interests in real estate, plantations, credit financing, automotive, fertilizers trading and building material.
- Its plantation division is the largest producer of sustainable palm oil in Sabah, East Malaysia

Kuan Kam Hon
$3 B
- Kam Hon began his career in building and construction in 1969 at his father's company building high-end homes around Kuala Lumpur.
- He set off on his own in 1978 and started Timol Weaving, a manufacturing business, which made woven labels and badges.
- Founded in 1981, Hartalega Holdings is the world's largest and fastest maker of nitrile gloves, which it exports to 40 countries.
- He is currently a mentor and spokesman, leaving operations to his two sons

Francis Yeoh & siblings
$2.4 B
- Francis Yeoh helms diversified YTL Corp., founded by his late father Yeoh Tiong Lay, who died in October 2017.
- The family's global empire boasts businesses in sectors such as utilities, cement manufacturing, hotels and property development.
- He and his six siblings are all involved in the family business.

Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary
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$1.75 B
- Low-profile tycoon is a high school dropout who started as a rice trader.
- The bulk of his wealth comes from stakes in listed conglomerates MMC Corp. and DRB-HICOM.
- MMC's operations span ports, logistics, construction and engineering while DRB-HICOM is an automotive giant that is also into property and education.
- DRB-HICOM, which owns car maker Proton, sold a 49.9% stake in Proton to Chinese auto group Zhejiang Geely in 2017. This gave an 86% stock boost
source:REAL TIME NET WORTH