From selling pineapples by roadside to building fortune in Hong Kong: the rise of Malaysia-born billionaire Cheah Cheng Hye
The co-founder of Hong Kong-based asset manager Value Partners was ranked Malaysia’s 22nd-richest billionaire late last month by Forbes, which estimated his net worth at US$1.25 billion at the time. Hailing from Malaysia’s northwestern state of Penang, Cheah’s childhood was marked by hardship. Losing his father to kidney failure at the age of nine, he…