Robert Kuok (Malaysia): The World’s Billionaires #97

Onetime rice and sugar trader heads multinational Kuok Group with interests ranging from shipping to real estate to media. Has offered to privatize the SCMP Group, which publishes the South China Morning Post. Merged extensive Malaysian, Indonesian palm oil interests with Singapore’s Wilmar International, run by his nephew. Also has stake in Transmile Group, air cargo outfit that has admitted to overstating revenues from 2004 to 2006.

Robert Kuok

Age: 84
Fortune: self made
Source: diversified
Net Worth: $9.0 bil
Country Of Citizenship: Malaysia
Residence: Hong Kong, Asia & Australia
Industry: Agriculture
Marital Status: married, 8 children
Education: Raffles College, Bachelor of Arts / Science