From King’s to Kingdom

Shing Huei Peh

Chapter 7 in Strictly Business:The Kwek Leng Beng Story, 2023, pp 73-83 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: When Kwek Leng Beng took over from his father in the early 1990s, the business and the world stood at the crossroads of revolution, reform and reorganisation. The Cold War was hobbling to an end after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the repercussions to this purported end of history swept the world from west to east. There was a bloody crackdown in Beijing which came to be known as the Tiananmen Incident of 1989. Closer to home in South-east Asia, Vietnam pulled out of Cambodia after 11 years of a bloody occupation. After decades of turbulence, the region which Kwek called home would finally find some peace…

Keywords: Kwek Leng Beng; Hong Leong Group; Hong Leong; Singapore; Millennium Hotel; Millenium Hotel; 9/11; The Plaza; authorised biography; CDL; City Development Ltd; Donald Trump (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L2 L21 L26 L85 M1 M13 M16 R3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/pdf/10.1142/9789811284496_0007 (application/pdf)
https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/9789811284496_0007 (text/html)
Ebook Access is available upon purchase.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789811284496_0007

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in World Scientific Book Chapters from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tai Tone Lim ().