Foo Choo Choon
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foo-choo-choon-200-223096
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Foo Choo Choon
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Foo Choo Choon, a Hakka tin miner, revenue farmer and businessman from Penang and Perak was, in his time, said to have been the richest Chinese man in the world. He was called the "Tin King" and 'the Carnagie of the Orient'. Although his own father was born in Penang, Foo Choo Choon was born in Yongding, in the Fujian province. At thirteen years of age he accompanied his father, Foo Yu Chio, to Malaya where he studied at Penang and worked his uncle's mines in Perak. A 1908 profile reads: He sat
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Malaysian businessman (1860–1921)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_Choo_Choon
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2023-10-03T09:19:39Z
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