Special Reports : The 40 Richest Malaysians

The bar has been lowered. Malaysia’s 40 Richest needed a net worth of only $100 million to make the list this year, down from $127 million in 2007, despite the fact that the Malaysian ringgit gained 6% against the U.S. dollar, the currency in which their fortunes are measured.

Caught up in the global equities slide, the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index was off 8% in the past year but has fallen 15% since mid-January. While 16 people still managed to add to their fortunes, another 18 saw their net worth slip.

Some tumbled considerably, with seven losing one-fourth or more of their fortune. That includes Lim Wee Chai, head of rubber glove manufacturer Top Glove, and Yaw Teck Seng, founder of forest group Samling, both worth one-third less than a year ago.

The Richest Malaysians

1. Robert Kuok
2. Ananda Krishnan
3. Lee Shin Cheng
4. Teh Hong Piow
5. Lee Kim Hua & family
6. Quek Leng Chan
7. Yeoh Tiong Lay & family
8. Syed Mokhtar AlBukhary
9. Vincent Tan
10. Tiong Hiew King
11. Azman Hashim
12. William H. J. Cheng
13. Lee Swee Eng
14. Ong Beng Seng
15. Lim Kok Thay
16. Vinod Sekhar
17. Lee Oi Hian
18. Yaw Teck Seng
19. Anthony Fernandes
20. Mokhzani Mahathir
21. Kamarudin Meranun
22. Jeffrey Cheah
23. Lee Hau Hian
24. Chong Chook Yew
25. Yaw Chee Ming
26. G. Gnanalingam
27. Lim Wee Chai
28. Kua Sian Kooi
29. Lau Cho Kun
30. Abdul Hamed Sepawi
31. David Law Tien Seng
32. Tiah Thee Kian
33. Liew Kee Sin
34. Ahmayuddin bin Ahmad
35. Eleena Azlan Shah
36. Lin Yun Ling
37. Ong Leong Huat
38. Lim Thian Kiat
39. Khoo Kay Peng
40. Nazir Razak

Stock	Tycoon	Industry	Gain
Berjaya Corp.	Vincent Tan	real estate	163%
KNM Group	Lee Swee Eng	oil services	93%
Wilmar International	Robert Kuok	palm oil	61%
IOI	Lee Shin Cheng	palm oil	35%
Kuala Lumpur Kepong	Lee Oi Hian, Lee Hua Hian	diversified	26%
Kencana	Mokhzani Mahathir	petroleum	22%
Parkson Holdings	William Cheng	China retail	21%

Twelve-month gain is from May 11, 2007 to May 9 of this year.

P/S: All of you thing I will at the first chart on when???hahaha…sampai kiamat pun tak rasanya..hehehe..we look n see je lah..thats all we can do as a simple person…don’t have a bigs dream that’s impossible to caught it ok..although dream is good as a encourage in achievement…adeh..my grammar very bad lah..