
As Southeast Asia's richest person as ranked by the magazine Forbes in 2011 with total assets of 12.5 billion, billionaire Robert Kuok of Malaysia (Home United) rarely appears before the press.
| Robert Kuok may be the one who bought expensive yachts in the world with 4.8 billion, 10 times more expensive yacht Eclipse of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovitch. |
Mr. Robert Kuok was born in 1923. In the 1970s, the billionaire is considered "King of the Asian way." Then, his crossover into other areas such as palm oil, chemicals, shipping, real estate ... now, he is the owner of five-star hotel chain Shangri-La, with many hotels throughout the Southeast Asia and the boss of the Trade Center World Trade Center in Beijing.
As a young man, Robert Kuok was very active and also the risks of doing business. It is one of the factors that helped him get rich quick. However, he has calculated very carefully and with foresight.Not only invest in the hotel, Robert Kuok was distributed to more of their investments. So the new story, not least Robert Kuok investment property in the communications sector, maritime transport, air transport.
Specifically, in 1995, Robert Kuok with Roberto Ongoing investor who spends 50% of capital for corporate acquisitions La Flor de la Isabela bankruptcy of the Philippines. This is a group of tobacco production and huge popularity in the Philippines. Thus, in tobacco and cigars, called his boss, the Kuok is also nothing too.
It is reported that the richest Southeast Asia was the one who spent $ 4.8 billion to buy a yacht with gold. The value of the yacht is 10 times more expensive than the Eclipse yacht Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. There was the time of Eclipse is the most expensive yachts in the world.
If buying a yacht for $ 4.8 billion is true, then the richest in Southeast Asia spent more than 1 / 3 of their assets to buy yachts there.
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| Kuok is a billionaire and the richest self-made South East Asia. He is the founder of the system Kuok Group companies in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. |
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| He bought the South China Morning Post, the newspaper stronger voice in the whole Southeast Asia from the media tycoon Robert Murdoch in 1993. |
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| He collected large resources from Wilmar, palm oil company in the world. |
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| Robert Kuok known as the owner of the hotel group, Shangri-La famous that his eldest son, Edward Kuok, who as Chairman of the Board. |
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| 9 holes of golf at the Hong Kong billionaire Kuok. |
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| In 2002, Mr. Kuok retirement. He has two wives, eight children. His sons now help him run the company. |
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| Kuok billionaire can buy is the world's most expensive yachts worth USD 4.8 billion. |







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