As Robert Kuok completed his memoirs in 2003, he began to have second thoughts. Worried that he had been too critical in parts — especially of some people he felt had cheated him over the years — the Chinese-Malaysian tycoon decided that he needed to “clean up” the manuscript.
“This took time because except for very short spells, I never retired from managing my companies,” Mr Kuok said via email.
Some people close to Mr Kuok also thought that it was perhaps not the most opportune time for him to publicly criticise the Malaysian government’s “excessive” racial preference policies that discriminate against Chinese and Indian communities.