Datuk Khor Siang Gin: The Man behind the Property Mogul
In Asian society where ‘’fuerdai’’ or rich second generation are often seen as an inert group riding on their parents’ riches, lacking ambitions and feasible ideas or practical capabilities of their own, it becomes all too easy and even forgivable to label all who’ve inherited the empire of their parents’ riches as an ineffectual group who are merely exceptionally lucky to be dealt destiny’s good cards, compared to the rest of us mere mortals. However, you’d be wrong not to see beneath the surface, as there are certainly exceptions to the rule. Meet Datuk Khor Siang Gin , managing director of Hunza Properties Berhad - a renowned Malaysian real estate developer - who has taken over from his father Datuk Seri Khor Teng Tong’s reins to run the huge corporation. Though Datuk was born even before the term ‘Fuerdai’ was popularised in mainstream media, his story of inheriting a company worth millions and the great expectations he bore as a result of his lineage would surely resonate enough t