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Ke Xiping 56

CHAIRMAN,

HENGXING GOLD HOLDING

Known as the most generous

resident of his southern China

hometown, Xiamen, he gave away

roughly $5 million last year, partly

to help lonely seniors in China and

to fund education efforts.

HONG KONG

Lui Che Woo 86

FOUNDER, K. WAH GROUP &

GALAXY ENTERTAINMENT

Launched the annual Lui Che Woo

Prize with a $1.2 billion endow-

ment—winners get $2.6 million,

based on their dedication to “the

nurturing and enrichment of world

civilization.”

Yeung Kin-man

FOUNDER & CEO,

BIEL CRYSTAL MANUFACTORY

Donated $26 million last

September to City University

of Hong Kong—the largest

gift it’s ever received—for

veterinary medicine research,

student-exchange programs,

professorships, and other

projects.

INDIA

Amit Chandra 48

CEO, BAIN INDIA

Archana Chandra

CEO, JAI VAKEEL FOUNDATION

Husband and wife give 75%

of their earnings each year

to causes from education to

health care. He was one of the

founding donors to Ashoka

University and has funded a

new children’s hospital in Mum-

bai that will be the country’s

largest.

Vineet Nayar 54

Anupama Nayar 49

FOUNDERS,

SAMPARK FOUNDATION

See story, p. 82.

Adar Poonawalla

35

CEO, SERUM INSTITUTE OF INDIA

Pledged $15 million last year to

clean up Pune city, near Mum-

bai, where he lives, by collect-

ing garbage with a fleet of 50

trucks and a crew of 70 people.

INDONESIA

Budi Hartono 76

PT DJARUM

Over the past 30 years his Djarum

Foundation has donated to causes

from heritage preservation to the

arts, but especially education,

where nearly 9,000 students at

100 universities have benefited.

Mien Rachman

Uno 74

FOUNDER, MIEN R.

UNO FOUNDATION

She started the foundation in

2000 to nurture entrepreneurs,

focusing on students and

micro-entrepreneurs.

JAPAN

Ryoichi Jinnai 89

FOUNDER,

CONSUMER LENDER PROMISE

In 15 years he’s put $650 million

into improving the agricultural

competitiveness of the northern

island of Hokkaido, where he lives,

and of Japan.

Yusaku Maezawa

40

FOUNDER & CEO OF START TODAY,

PARENT OF ZOZOTOWN

In 2012 he set up the Contempo-

rary Art Foundation, which awards

grants to young artists and musi-

cians nationwide. (In May he spent

$98 million on contemporary art at

Christie’s and Sotheby’s.)

Ryotaro Sugi 71

ACTOR & SINGER

He’s sponsored 100 poor Vietnam-

ese children since 1988, helping to

pay for tuition, expenses and treat-

ment costs and donating millions

to this and other causes.

FORBES ASIA

THE LIST

Anne Eu 61

CHAIRMAN, EU YAN SANG

When not brainstorming on business strategies, the chairman of

Asia’s largest Chinese medicine company may be found using her

management clout to organize a charity gala or find an ingenious

way to support a worthy cause. Two years ago when Malaysian

Airlines Flight 370 went missing and she discovered that only

passengers’ families would be compensated but not the crew’s,

she started the Flagbearer Education Foundation and pledged

$120,000 to support their children’s education. That year she also

spent months organizing the Richard Clayderman charity event

to raise $300,000 for cancer research and education through the

Joseph William Yee Eu Foundation, named after her late husband.

Early this year she led a team of volunteers though the muddy,

leech-infested rain forests of Sabah to donate water filters and

rice cookers as part of the Roti 1Malaysia campaign. Each day the

campaign’s volunteers, often students, pick up surplus food and

goodies from 5-star hotel kitchens and give them to orphanages,

old-age homes and refugee centers. She thought of the campaign

while judging a hospitality award in 2011. She realized that 5-star

hotels routinely threw away high-quality fresh foods because they

produced too much. Why not feed the surplus to the needy and

hungry instead? Today 24 5-star hotels and 7 bakeries are part of

this food network. Every day 50 to 60 volunteers collect bread,

croissants, cakes and pastries and distribute them in the Klang

Valley. “Philanthropy is a mind-set,” she says. “It is not just about

donating money. It is also about sharing ability and knowledge,

raising awareness and pooling resources to better a particular

condition for humanity. By involving the young, we are grooming

their minds to be empathetic, caring and giving to become better

future leaders.”

MALAYSIA

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