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health—something he decided was
needed after witnessing the stress his
IT engineers experienced.MALAYSIA
Lim Wee Chai 59
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN &
FOUNDER, TOP GLOVE CORP.
He and his wife, Tong Siew Bee, started
the Top Glove Foundation in 2009
with an initial $300,000. Since then
the foundation has donated roughly $5
million to various causes, with a focus
on education. Recent beneficiaries in-
clude several Chinese-medium schools
in Malaysia as well as Universiti
Tunku Abdul Rahman, which received
$70,000 in 2015 to create a chair for the
Top Glove Professor of Chemistry.Tan Kai Hee 80
EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN,
HAI-O ENTERPRISE
At his 80th-birthday dinner party in
January, he announced he was putting
$22 million of his shares in Hai-O—the
Chinese traditional-medicine company
he started in 1975—into a trust, with
stock gains and dividends to be donated
to cultural, social, environmental and
educational charities. At the same time
he also pledged more than $500,000 to
38 entities, including the Federation of
Chinese Associations Malaysia and the
Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies.
Over the previous nine years he had
donated some $5 million; beneficiaries
included victims of the 2008 Sichuan
earthquake, dozens of Chinese-me-
dium schools around Malaysia, and
Yayasan Usman Awang, a foundation
dedicated to the memory of the late
National Laureate that aims to promote
unity in multiracial Malaysia.MYANMAR
Ken Tun 43
FOUNDER & CEO, PARAMI ENERGY
GROUP
Donated more than $1 million for rural
development, reforestation and educa-
tion over the past few years. At least
300,000 trees have been planted outof a goal of 500,000. A special interest
is the country’s 1,000-year-old system
of Baka (monastery) schools that to-
day educate more than 300,000 poor
children of all faiths in 1,600 schools.
He helped organize three conferences
of Baka teachers and leaders; the one
in May created the Sustainable Baka
School Association to promote a child-
centered approach to teaching. Also
this year he founded the PyninYawDa-
ya (“Ray of Education”) Foundation to
develop social enterprises that will sup-
port Baka schools and their graduates.THE PHILIPPINES
Nanette Medved-Po 46
FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN &
PRESIDENT, GENERATION HOPE &
FRIENDS OF HOPE
A former actress and model, she started
Generation Hope, which donates all
profits from the sale of Hope in a Bot-
tle bottled water to Friends of Hope,
a nonprofit that builds classrooms
around the country. She began the ven-
ture in 2012, has spent nearly $900,000
and has sold almost 9 million bottles,
built 37 classrooms and improved the
learning environment for more than
7,000 students. “I believe investments
in education carry the greatest ripple
effect to narrow the wealth gap over
time and my building a classroom was
tangible and easy enough for everyone
to understand,” she says.David Zuellig 60
Daniel Zuellig 56
TRUSTEES,
ZUELLIG FAMILY FOUNDATION
These cousins help steer the founda-
tion, which has improved health care in
poor rural areas, significantly reducing
mortality rates for infants and moth-
ers. The family’s Zuellig Group—a
low-profile but powerhouse pharma-
ceutical company in Asia—has contrib-
uted an average of $2.3 million annually
over the last five years to the founda-
tion. With 83 staff members, it trains
rural governors, mayors and their staff
in leadership and good governance.Beginning in 2009 with nine munici-
palities, the program now serves 640
municipalities—42% of the country—
aided by partnerships with the Philip-
pine health department, the UN and
the U.S. government. The company’s
roots extend back to the cousins’ Swiss
grandfather, who started a Manila trad-
ing business in the early 1900s.SINGAPORE
Albert Hong 82
PIONEERING ARCHITECT &
BUSINESSMAN
Bounced back from a life-threatening
bout of pneumonia in 2013 and decided
he wanted to do more for the commu-
nity. Later that year he gave nearly $25
million to the Singapore University of
Technology and Design, helping to fund
scholarships and bursaries, as well as
the university’s research projects. The
university has since named a lecture
theater and lecture series after him.John Lim 61
COFOUNDER, ARA ASSET
MANAGEMENT
Set up the Lim Hoon Foundation in
2008 in memory of his schoolteacher-
father, Lim Hoon. The aim is to reach
out to “sandwich students,” who are
poor but have the drive to excel aca-
demically. It hands out communi-
ty-education awards each year and
funds up to 15 scholarships annu-
ally with the Singapore Management
University. His father taught at Tao
Nan School in the 1950s and worked
to develop Singapore’s school system.
The foundation boasts an endowment
running into the millions of dollars.SOUTH KOREA
Kim Jeong-Ho 50
COFOUNDER, NAVER
After leaving Naver, he launched the
social enterprise Bear Better. It aims to
expand employment for people with
developmental disabilities; 200 of its
staffers—83%—have such disabilities. It
started in 2013, and it produces, sells or
delivers items such as flowers, coffee,