Foo Choo Choon

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 Chinaman 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 uncles mines in Perak. A 1908 profile reads

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