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- Jeffrey Cheah Fook Ling (Hakka Chinese: 谢富年; Qia3 Fu5 Ngien2 or Chia Fook Yin) (born 1945 or 1946) is the founder and current chairman of the Sunway Group, a Malaysian conglomerate operating in 12 industries with core businesses in property and construction. Jeffrey Cheah is Foundation Chancellor of Sunway University in Malaysia. He is also a Founding Trustee of the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation. Cheah is the recipient of 10 honorary doctorates, most of which in recognition of his outstanding contribution towards education. Jeffrey Cheah moved to Australia to pursue a business degree at Victoria University (then Footscray Institute of Technology) in Melbourne and after graduating, returned to Malaysia to take a job as an accountant in a motor assembly plant. He soon left this employment, and in 1974, he started his own company, a small tin-mining company with a startup capital of RM100,000. Today, Sunway Group is one of Malaysia's most formidable property-construction conglomerate. Through his eponymous foundation, Cheah has donated almost US$39 million to fund scholarships and educational causes since 2018. (en)
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- Chairman of Sunway Group (en)
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- Chia Fook Yin (en)
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- Founder of Sunway Group (en)
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- Chiāh Hù Lî (en)
- Qia3 Fu5 Ngien2 or Chia Fook Yin (en)
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- Susan Cheah Seok Cheng (en)
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- Chairman of Sunway Group (en)
- Cheah Fook Ling (en)
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- Jeffrey Cheah Fook Ling (Hakka Chinese: 谢富年; Qia3 Fu5 Ngien2 or Chia Fook Yin) (born 1945 or 1946) is the founder and current chairman of the Sunway Group, a Malaysian conglomerate operating in 12 industries with core businesses in property and construction. Jeffrey Cheah is Foundation Chancellor of Sunway University in Malaysia. He is also a Founding Trustee of the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation. Cheah is the recipient of 10 honorary doctorates, most of which in recognition of his outstanding contribution towards education. (en)
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