Robert Kuok

Age: 82
Fortune: self made
Source: Diversified

Net Worth: 5.0

Country Of Citizenship: Malaysia
Residence: Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Asia & Australia
Industry: Agriculture
Marital Status: married, 8 children

Raffles College, Bachelor of Arts / Science

Got his start trading rice, sugar and wheat flour in Malaysia in 1949 and in Singapore in 1953. Today heads multinational Kuok Group with interests ranging from shipping to real estate to media. His Malaysia International Shipping Corporation is the leading dry bulk shipper in the Pacific basin; his Transmile Group, which transports freight by air, has landing rights in China and India. In Hong Kong owns modern warehouse and cargo distribution centers; and in China, plants for processing edible oils and 10 Coca-Cola bottling plants. The group also owns and manages extensive sugar and oil palm plantations, mills and refineries in Malaysia and Indonesia. Has 38 hotels throughout Asia Pacific including the luxurious Shangri-La.