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Ming Z. Mei
Ming Z. Mei (梅志明), also written Zhiming Mei, is a Singapore-based business executive who co-founded GLP in 2009, is its CEO, and built it into a manager of roughly US$80 billion in assets.
Ng Teng Fong
Ng Teng Fong (黄廷方) was a Singapore property magnate who founded Far East Organization in 1960 and developed much of Orchard Road's shopping strip, dying in 2010.
Nguyen Dang Quang
Nguyen Dang Quang (Nguyễn Đăng Quang) is a Vietnamese businessman who co-founded Masan Group, a Ho Chi Minh City consumer goods and retail conglomerate, and serves as its chairman.
Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao
Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao (Nguyễn Thị Phương Thảo), born 1970 in Hanoi, is a Vietnamese businesswoman who chairs VietJet Air and leads Sovico Group, and is Vietnam's first self-made woman billionaire.
Noble Group (commodity trading company)
Noble Group was a Hong Kong-based commodity trading house founded in 1986 by Richard Elman that became Asia's largest commodity trader before collapsing into a $3.5 billion debt restructuring in 2018.
Olivia Lum
Olivia Lum (Lum Ooi Lin) is a Singapore-based entrepreneur who founded water-treatment group Hyflux in 1989 and became the first female EY World Entrepreneur Of The Year winner in 2011.
Pham Nhat Vuong
Pham Nhat Vuong is a Vietnamese business magnate who founded Vingroup, Vietnam's largest private conglomerate, and its electric-vehicle maker VinFast, after building his first fortune selling instant noodles in Ukraine.
Pham Thu Huong
Pham Thu Huong is a Vietnamese businesswoman, Vice Chairwoman of Vingroup and wife of its founder Pham Nhat Vuong, who became Vietnam's richest woman in 2026.
Pham Thuy Hang
Pham Thuy Hang (Phạm Thúy Hằng) is a Vietnamese businesswoman, Vice Chairwoman of Vingroup since 2010, who joined the Forbes billionaires list in 2026 with $3 billion.
Press Metal Aluminium Holdings
Press Metal Aluminium Holdings is a Malaysian aluminum producer founded by Paul Koon and his brothers in 1986, the largest integrated aluminum producer in Southeast Asia.
Public Bank
Public Bank Berhad is a Malaysian banking group founded in 1966 by Teh Hong Piow and headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's third-largest bank by assets.
Quek Leng Chan
Quek Leng Chan, also known as Guo Linggan (郭令灿), is a Malaysian banker who built Hong Leong Bank in Kuala Lumpur and co-founded Hong Leong Company (Malaysia) in 1963.
Quek Leng Chye
Quek Leng Chye, born 1944, is a Singapore property executive serving as managing director of Hong Leong Holdings, the property arm of the Hong Leong Group.
Rimbunan Hijau Group
Rimbunan Hijau Group, whose name means "Forever Green," is a Malaysian conglomerate founded in Sibu, Sarawak, in 1975 by Tiong Hiew King, spanning timber, palm oil, property, and Chinese-language media.
Robert Ng
Robert Ng Chee Siong is a Hong Kong property magnate who chaired the Sino Group from 1991 until 2025 and, with his brother Philip, controls Singapore's Far East Organization.
Sheng Siong Group
Sheng Siong Group (升菘集团) is a Singaporean supermarket chain founded by the Lim brothers in 1985 and listed on the Singapore Exchange since 2011, the country's second-largest behind NTUC FairPrice.
Sunway Group
Sunway Group is a Malaysian conglomerate founded in 1974 by Jeffrey Cheah, centered on property, construction, and healthcare, and best known for building Sunway City Kuala Lumpur on 800 acres of former tin-mining land.
Syed Mokhtar Albukhary
Syed Mokhtar Albukhary is a low-profile Malaysian business tycoon and philanthropist whose DRB-HICOM and MMC groups span ports, automotive, banking, postal services, and rice trading, worth an estimated US$3.5 billion in 2026.
Taha Bouqdib
Taha Bouqdib is a French businessman of Moroccan descent who co-founded the Singapore-based luxury tea house TWG Tea in 2008 and later the coffee brand Bacha Coffee.
Tay Za
Tay Za (Burmese: တေဇ), also known as Tayza or Teza, is a Myanmar businessman, born in 1964, who founded and chairs the Htoo Group of Companies.
Techcombank
Techcombank, formally the Vietnam Technological and Commercial Joint Stock Bank, is a Vietnamese commercial bank founded in 1993, headquartered in Hanoi and listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange as TCB.
Teh Hong Piow
Teh Hong Piow (郑鸿标), born in Singapore in 1930, was a Malaysian banker who founded Public Bank Berhad and built it into Malaysia's third largest banking group.
Teh siblings
The Teh siblings are the four children and heirs of Teh Hong Piow, founder of Malaysia's Public Bank, ranked No. 3 on Forbes Malaysia's 50 Richest 2025 at $5.9 billion.
Tiong Hiew King
Tiong Hiew King (張曉卿) was a Malaysian timber magnate and newspaper publisher who founded the Rimbunan Hijau Group in Sibu, Sarawak, in 1975 and controlled Hong Kong's Ming Pao.
Tran Dinh Long
Trần Đình Long, a Vietnamese businessman, founded Hoa Phat Group in 1992. He chairs the country's largest steelmaker, HPG, with an estimated net worth of $2.4 billion.
Vingroup
Vingroup, also known as Technocom, is Vietnam's largest private conglomerate, founded by Pham Nhat Vuong in Ukraine in 1993 and now spanning real estate, retail, and automotive.
YTL Corporation
YTL Corporation Berhad is a Malaysian infrastructure conglomerate spanning power generation, water, cement, property, and telecommunications, and Malaysia's first independent power producer, licensed in 1993.