Lim Kim Heng completed his pre-U studies at TAR College in 1980 and started to work at Campbell Electronics for a few years in sales. In 1986 he joined joined Senhong Sales and Services Sdn Bhd as the head of operations where he managed retail outlets. was responsible for the operations of retail outlets. He left Senhong Sales and Services Sdn Bhd in 1989 and decided after 9 years of experience to start his own outfit - Senheng Electric in a half shop lot in Pandan Jaya. 

Kim Heng's two brothers, Lim Kim Chieng (63) and Lim Kim Yew (60) were roped in to help out...

A formidable entrepreneur banker, Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Dr. Teh Hong Piow, 92, founded Public Bank Berhad in 1966 with a team from Malayan Banking Berhad (MBB). 6 years earlier (1960) he was part of a small group which helped set up MBB. He rose fast to General Manager. The seed of his dream to own his own bank was planted. 

He was only 35 when he started Public Bank. It opened for business on 6 August 1966 at No. 4 Jalan Gereja, Kuala Lumpur.  Tan Sri Teh's first taste of banking was as a teller in OCBC. There he discovered banking was all he...

Malaysia Steel Works (KL) Bhd (Masteel) is a premier steel bar manufacturer which began operations in 1971. The manufacturing facilities are located in Petaling Jaya and Bukit Raja, Klang, Selangor.  Masteel has a 48.25% owned associate company, Bio Molecular Industries Sdn Bhd (“Bio-M”), which is a strategic partnership between Masteel and Curium International S.A., a worldwide leader in radiopharmaceuticals. 

Bio-M has own cyclotron and a dedicated radiochemistry lab for R&D in its facility and it is principally...

Piong Teck Onn, 64, who holds a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy University of Wales, Cardiff, UK has more than 30 years in the pharmaceutical industry. The Piong family is the major shareholder of listed Kotra Industries Berhad (Kotra). The Group is one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in Malaysia and is engaged in developing, manufacturing and supplying pharmaceutical and healthcare products since its inception in 1982. Kotra is headquartered in Melaka, Malaysia. 

On board is his wife, Chin Swee Chang,...

Crescendo Corporation Berhad (“Crescendo") Group's core business is Property Development & Construction. It has a total development landbank of approximately 2,700 acres in Johor Bahru. The current main development projects are Bandar Cemerlang, Desa Cemerlang, Taman Perindustrian Cemerlang and Taman Dato’ Chellam. Low cost and affording housing properties form the largest part of its projects (67%) with Commercial/industrial forming the others. The Group is also involved in the manufacturing and trading of building materials,...

Tan Sri Dato’ Nathan, founder of Eversendai Corporation, an integrated structural steel global turnkey contractor with more than RM1 billion in revenue, wanted his only son, Narish (39), to be an engineer because he wasn't one. But Narish went on to do a Business Information Technology (Hons) degree at Coventry University, UK. He asked his father if not being an engineer had stopped him in his tracks in building some of the world's renowned structures like the Burj Al Arab, Burj Khalifa, Doha International Airport and...

If the four Choo siblings, Kennix and Tienna (we call her Tina), Kok Wai and Kelvin, had remained in Ipoh, Perak and not took a flight to London about 20 years ago to try to make something out of their lives, Village Roast Duck would not have happened. Tienna tells us that “we just had to take the chance of our lives because being poor was not an option we were prepared to accept as fate.” For more than 8 years the siblings scrimped and saved and learned every aspect of running a restaurant, serving customers, knowing their preferences and how they want their roast duck to be for example, remembering people by their surnames and greeting...

Malaysia’s youngest tok dalang or master puppeteer of wayang kulit (shadow play) is a six year old boy called Aqfierudzar Rizq Mohd Sulhie (known by his nickname Pyu), youngest of three sons of Mohd Sulhie Yusuf, 42, the founder of Arjunasukma Academy in Klang, Selangor. Sulhie and his wife, Aniza Musa, 35, are wayang kulit enthusiasts and work together at Arjunasukma Academy to keep this ancient, creative and entertaining shadow theatre alive. Sulhie was with the Customs Department before he decided to go full time in 2008 with the teaching of this art. He subscribes to the wayang kulit Kelantan. Wayang kulit as a theatre form is still...